Mounted Rifles Brigade

Famous quotes containing the words mounted, rifles and/or brigade:

    “But all is changed, that high horse riderless,
    Though mounted in that saddle Homer rode
    Where the swan drifts upon a darkening flood.”
    —William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)

    “I think that for once the Sharp’s rifles and the revolvers were employed in a righteous cause.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    “Rational free spirits are the light brigade who go on ahead and reconnoitre the ground which the heavy brigade of the orthodox will eventually occupy.”
    —G.C. (Georg Christoph)