WORLD CIVILIZATION

Detailed explanation-1: -Soldiers who fought on horseback were known as cavalry. They often dominated the battlefield and performed a variety of important roles.

Detailed explanation-2: -An individual soldier in the cavalry is known by a number of designations depending on era and tactics, such as cavalryman, horseman, trooper, cataphract, knight, drabant, hussar, uhlan, mamluk, cuirassier, lancer, dragoon, or horse archer.

Detailed explanation-3: -Cavalry-They were soldiers trained to fight and patrol on horseback.

Detailed explanation-4: -jousts; jousting; jousted To joust is to fight against someone, usually using lances, on horseback. Such a contest is called a joust. If you’ve ever seen a movie or TV show about medieval times, you might have seen two knights jousting.

Detailed explanation-5: -The first cavalry unit formed by the Congress of the United States of America (along with three new regular infantry regiments) was a squadron of light dragoons commanded by Major Michael Rudolph on 5 March 1792.