Later on, I believe, some of the German reiters became so venturesome that several squadrons exposed themselves to the fire of the big guns in the fort at Skip's Corner, and suffered pretty severely for their temerity.
A few scattered shots were fired, without any perceptible effect, and before they could either form up or fly the German Reiters were upon them.
They cut these up and dispersed them, but afterwards found that they were separated from the Saxons by a strong force of British regular troops who occupied Harlington and opened a fire on the Reiters that emptied numerous saddles.
Mayenne made his headquarters at Moulins to prevent the reiters uniting with Alençon and the Huguenots of Poitou and Guyenne.
France had seen nothing like these reiters in days heretofore.
He actually had to punish these wretched subjects of his in order to retain the services of the reiters at all!
Condé, III, some letters relating to the coming of the reiters in this year.
This letter was communicated to the duke of Württemberg by the count palatine and was sufficient temptation to lead the first of the famous hordes of German reiters across the border into France.
Yet although Coligny’s army tasted of Bordeaux wine and his reiters watered their horses in the Garonne, he did not go on.
The German reitersnow proved to be worth little more than the lansquenets.
The French troops, meantime, were either furloughed or scattered, and the generals condemned to inaction, while the German reiters and lansquenets and the Swiss pikemen were permitted to return to their own homes.
Charles was, however, near experiencing trouble with thereiters of Duke Casimir.
The Huguenot leaders had entered into engagements to repay to the king the nine hundred thousand francs advanced by him to the German reiters of Count Casimir.
The writer ascribes the fall of Rouen to the delay of the reiters in assembling at their rendezvous.
To flourish of trumpet and rattle of drum, The Reiterswill finish as firm as they come!
Abbe, was it, or was it not, you who brought the reiters upon us, and who gave the King's forces notice of our passage?
Mother said you spared our huts, and the lady gave us bread when we came to the castle gate in winter, and she would not see the reiters lay waste your folk's doings down there without warning you.
Then came five hundred light horse under Castrioto, then the lanz-knechts under Von Frundsberg, and lastly the reiters and Burgundian cavalry.
The lanz-knechts were devoted to Von Frunds-berg, and the reiters to Zucker, but neither Spaniards nor Italians would have served under such leaders.
The trumpets sounded, and the Burgundian lances and German reiters dashed on, shouting loudly, "Vive Bourbon!
Incited by this promise, Von Frundsberg entered Italy at the head of fourteen thousand lanz-knechts, and five hundred reiters contributed by the Archduke Ferdinand, under the command of Captain Zucker.
Seeing this, Pomperant ordered thereiters to halt, and rode towards her alone.
Pomperant, as he rode back with the reiters to Pavia.
A few scattered shots were fired without any perceptible effect, and before they could either form up or fly the German Reiters were upon them.
Later on, I believe, some of the German reiters became so venturesome that several squadrons exposed themselves to the fire of the big guns in the fort at Skip’s Corner, and suffered pretty severely for their temerity.
The number of reiters amounted to at least fifty men; and had the space been open, the young cavalier must have been overpowered in a moment.
There lie a strong body of reiters on the Chalons road; and there is one man in France for whom I have much love and respect, but who is somewhat too famous for exposing himself unnecessarily.
I have not fifty men with me; and, notwithstanding the defeat of Auneau, I hear that a strong band of reiters has been seen in the neighbourhood of La Ferte sous Jouarre.
A report of reiters having been seen at a small distance reached the castle in the morning, and some horsemen were sent out to ascertain the fact.
Schwartz reiters have attacked a gallant little band just crossing a small stream, and are driving them back towards the Marne.
The servant whom he had despatched to his brother reached the ford and crossed it, without any attempt on the part of the reiters to interrupt him.
Nor were the wounded reiters themselves neglected; for Charles of Montsoreau was not one to forget, as soon as the eagerness of the actual strife was over, that his adversaries were his fellow-men.
I not see him with the reitersat the moment that they charged down the hill upon us?
He was trudging by chance on the road to Audenaerde where there was then a garrison of Flemish reiters charged with the defence of the town against the French bands that ravaged the country like locusts.
The reiters had at their head a certain captain, a Frisian born, by name Kornjuin.
God willed it otherwise; the German reitersand landsknechts refused to go farther, and said their oath was to go against the Duke of Alba and not against France.
He sold the horses of the two reiters for forty-eight florins, of which he gave thirty to the Frenchmen.
These Reiters were organized in squadrons of variable strength, and recruited in the same manner as were the Landsknechts.
Heavy cavalry could disperse arquebusiers and musketeers, but it was helpless against solid masses of pikemen; the Reiters solved the difficulty by the use of the pistol.
Well," said another, "if he be likely to bring the reitersupon us, I think his Highness very wise to go.
There is not a man of Logeres who is not ready to ride forty miles, and fight two reiters this very night in defence of his Lord.
You know what the reiters have sworn to do with you, if they catch you.
During the next hour, or hour and a half, manifold were the reports which reached the town concerning the conflict which had taken place between the Count of Logeres and the reiters on the preceding evening.
It seemed clear to him that thereiters had been defeated, and without having any very certain cause for his belief, he felt convinced that Charles of Montsoreau was already upon his way towards Montigny.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "reiters" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
