light cavalry
Fast horse soldiers
Light cavalry refers to mounted military units designed for speed and mobility rather than heavy combat.
These soldiers typically carried lighter weapons and wore minimal armor, making them ideal for reconnaissance, skirmishing, flanking maneuvers, and pursuing retreating enemies.
Historically, hussars and dragoons served as light cavalry.
The term now appears mainly in historical contexts or strategy games.
- lancerMounted soldier with spear
- horsemanSkilled equine rider
- hussarMounted European light cavalry
- uhlanLance-bearing cavalry soldier
- mounted patrolsPolice units on horses
skirmishers · raiding party · reconnaissance · charge · flanking · flanking maneuver · dragoon · horse soldier · mounted troops · mobile · rapid deployment · scouts · sabers · spurs · swift · saddle up · hooves · patrol
- warriorsfighter, knight, footsoldier, barbarian, samurai
- ancient armiesphalanx, legion, hoplites, heavy infantry, pikemen
- cavalrydragoons, hussars, lancers, lancer, cuirassiers
- French militaryFrench Foreign Legion, French Army, legionnaires, chasseurs, gendarme
- medieval cavalryhorsemen, mounted warriors, war horses, knight, charger
- medieval warriorsknights, soldiers, warriors, fighters, archers
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Armored mounted soldiers
cuirassiers · men-at-arms · gendarmes · lancers · knights
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Armored mounted soldiers
shock troops · line infantry · heavy infantry · armored cavalry · armored divisions
light cavalryinfantry
Ground combat troops
foot soldiers · light infantry · heavy infantry · pikemen · hoplites
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