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* A part of the duke de Lauzun's regiment (called hulans) were armed with spears.
Memoirs of the war in the Southern department of the United States 1812
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Leaving my hulans under cover of a dark street, and riding forward to reconnoitre, I saw with astonishment the utter carelessness with which they abandoned themselves to their indulgences in the midst of an irritated population.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 55, No. 341, March, 1844 Various
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A gallant action had certainly been done; not the less gallant for its being a humane one; and even my bold hulans gave me credit for being a "smart officer," a title of no slight value in their dashing service.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 55, No. 341, March, 1844 Various
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To attack such a force with fifty worn-out men, was obviously hopeless, and my hulans, brave as they were, hung down their heads; but a fresh concourse came rushing from the gates with even louder outcries than before, and the words, _massacre_ and _conflagration_, were heard with fearful emphasis.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 55, No. 340, February, 1844 Various
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For a while he seemed to bear a charmed life; but a rifleman of the Prussian hulans took a sure aim.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 56, Number 347, September, 1844 Various
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European warfare -- such as dragoons, cuirassiers, hussars, lancers, chasseurs, hulans, etc. Heavy cavalry is composed of the heavier men and horses, and is usually divided into dragoons and cuirassiers.
The Continental Monthly, Vol. 6, No 2, August, 1864 Devoted to Literature and National Policy Various
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Not Metz-land now, but the Clermontais is getting harried; flying hulans and huzzars have been seen on the
The French Revolution Thomas Carlyle 1838
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As foon as more troops of general Dundas's corps came up, major-general lord Cathcart, with the I4th9 27thy and 28th re - giments, and the Britiih hulans, attacked the enemy and drove them back, with iofsj beyond Gelder Malfen..
A Collection of State Papers Relative to the War Against France Now Carrying on by Great Britain ... 1795
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