horse soldiers
Warriors on horseback
Horse soldiers are cavalry—military troops who fight from horseback.
The term emphasizes the mounted nature of the warfare rather than the formal military designation.
It appears in historical contexts describing mobile combat units: The horse soldiers swept across the plains.
The phrase gained renewed currency describing U.S.
Special Forces who rode horses alongside Afghan allies in 2001.
- dragoonsCompels by intimidation
- mountedFixed in position
- mounted troopsSoldiers fighting from horseback
- troopersEnlisted cavalry soldiers
- cavalryMounted military force
hussar · squadron · warhorse · Green Berets · special forces · roughriders · shock troops · reconnaissance · chargers · saddle up · saddles · thundering · scouts · behind enemy lines · equestrian · sabers · spurs · hooves
- toy soldierstin soldier, lead soldier, wooden soldier, nutcracker, grenadier
- cavalrycavalry, cavalryman, cavalry brigade, cavalry charges, cavalry officer
- Civil War Cavalrycavalry charge, cavalry regiment, cavalry saber, cavalry brigade, cavalry division
horse soldiersinfantry
Ground combat troops
foot soldiers · tank crews · ground pounders · mechanized infantry · armored cavalry
horse, soldiers, horses, horseshoe, trooper, horsing, horseshoes, horsy, lancer