How To Use Cuirassier In A Sentence
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Two other cuirassier regiments can be seen debouching from the valley on the right of the picture.
Archive 2009-02-01
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Had they failed, they would have routed through the supporting CR8 Seydlitz cuirassiers and likely the follow up Austrian attack would have run both Prussian units off the table.
Archive 2009-02-01
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The French gained a slight advantage in the ensuing melees, forcing a couple more squadrons of cuirassier and hussars off the field.
Archive 2009-05-01
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The results of an evening's worth of figure basing: Elite Miniatures French cuirassiers, dragoons and, oh, one Minden SYW Austrian cuirassier in the front row on the left.
Archive 2009-05-01
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This is what Bill saw in front of his dragoons and jager screen: Prussian infantry supported by Prussian dragoons and cuirassiers.
BAR Napoleon Playtest
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The line cuirassiers and Guard Horse Grenadiers and Chasseurs began to cross the river.
In The Grand Manner - Day 2
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By 1700, armor was largely out of use, but a specialist class of heavy cavalry, the cuirassier, continued to wear torso armor and a helmet.
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The French have 3 battalions of infantry plus Bill's 2 btns, 40 dragoons, 32 cuirassiers, 12 chasseurs and four 8-pounders with crew.
June Painting Results
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The results of an evening's worth of figure basing: Elite Miniatures French cuirassiers, dragoons and, oh, one Minden SYW Austrian cuirassier in the front row on the left.
Archive 2009-05-01
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It was distinguished at Rossbach, Zorndorf and Hochirch and was usually brigaded with the Gensdarmes CR10 cuirassier regiment.
Frederick's Garde du Corps
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A single squadron of French lancers won a melee against a larger and heavier Russian cuirassier squadron, forcing to to flee, but more importantly, pinning the two cuirassier squadrons that were stacked up behind it.
In The Grand Manner - Day 2
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By my count, the Prussian had only committed 5 of their 12 battalions to the battle so far, and on their right wing, their powerful cuirassier brigade seemed to be gaining the upper hand in the cavalry fight and they still had the Jung Krakow dragoons and the Prinz von Preussen CR2 cuirassiers around Sagschutz.
Archive 2009-03-01
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The national "tire-valiant" is a galeated crest not unlike the cuirassier's helmet, and the hair, trained from the sides into a high ridge running along the cranium, not unfrequently projects far beyond the forehead.
Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo Volume 1
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The 36,000 troopers of the cavalry arm were organized into eight cuirassier, six dragoon, twelve hussar and three uhlan regiments.
THE CAMPAIGNS OF NAPOLEON
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Cavalry forces evolved into four categories throughout the ages: the cuirassier or heavy cavalryman, the lancer, the dragoon or mounted infantryman, and the light cavalry.
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The regiment was typically brigaded with the Garde du Corps cuirassier regiment CR13 during the SYW.
Archive 2008-10-01
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He quotes French cuirassiers (heavy cavalrymen) as saying that their sabers were ‘virtually useless in hand-to-hand cavalry fighting’.
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He was a cuirassier, an officer, and even an officer of considerable rank; a large gold epaulette peeped from beneath the cuirass; this officer no longer possessed a helmet.
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The only exception is the Alt Modena cuirassiers, which will use the pending Minden Miniatures Austrian cuirassiers when they become available.
Archive 2009-02-01
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The national “tire-valiant” is a galeated crest not unlike the cuirassier’s helmet, and the hair, trained from the sides into a high ridge running along the cranium, not unfrequently projects far beyond the forehead.
Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo
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Cavalry forces evolved into four categories throughout the ages: the cuirassier or heavy cavalryman, the lancer, the dragoon or mounted infantryman, and the light cavalry.
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His cuirassiers plunged into the thick of the fray at once, driving the Swedes pell-mell back across the ditch and road.
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The grand column was led by the two-squadron Garde du Corps (CR13) cuirassier regiment that was brigaded with the Prinz von Preussen (Gelbe Kuraisier) CR2 regiment.
Archive 2008-01-01
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Like cuirassiers in ancient wars, stamping and leaping high in the air, we drove one another down the short street and then, with this urging in our legs, into the highway.
The Metamorphosis, in The Penal Colony,and Other Stories
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The Prussians deployed three regiments of cuirassiers on their far right flank and these fought a hard battle with the Saxons throughout the day.
Archive 2009-03-01
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When a man of wit and intelligence is taken in by old Fourchon," continued the general, "a retired cuirassier need not blush for having hunted that otter; which bears an enormous resemblance to the third posthorse we are made to pay for and never see.
Sons of the Soil
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By my count, the Prussian had only committed 5 of their 12 battalions to the battle so far, and on their right wing, their powerful cuirassier brigade seemed to be gaining the upper hand in the cavalry fight and they still had the Jung Krakow dragoons and the Prinz von Preussen CR2 cuirassiers around Sagschutz.
Archive 2009-03-01
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As you may recall, I painted the first squadron of the Alt Modena cuirassier regiment earlier in the month.
Archive 2009-08-01
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A cuirassier is a cavalryman whose body is protected by a cuirass, a piece of defensive armor, covering the body from neck to girdle, and combining a breastplate and a back piece.
Short Stories of Various Types
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GMB does not have Alt Modena yet, but does have 12 other cuirassier flags, so I'm glad to see Vaubanner has a good one.
Alt Modena Cuirassiers
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At this point, Davout ordered the heavy dragoons on his far right to engage the Russian dragoons another 4 squadrons of which joined in on the assault and cuirassiers.
Archive 2009-05-01
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Frank Hammond informed me that his Austrian and Prussian cuirassier castings are on the horizon, so the temptation is large to delay painting any more Hinchcliffes until I have a chance to tackle the Minden cuirassier figures.
More Mindens Painted
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Every other Austrian cuirassier regiment had red facings.
Alt Modena Cuirassiers
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From up on the grassy ridge he barked out his orders and his other squadron of cuirassiers charged down the hill, beating their horses and driving them on into the fight.
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By 1804, twelve French heavy cavalry regiments had become cuirassiers, with cuirasses and steel helmets.
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In last year's Big Battalion Game, the French had more cuirassiers than the Prussians and so I vowed on a stack of Bibles that I would never be out-cuirassed again.
The Prussian Gens d'armes (CR10)
