First and foremost they remained the primary choice for confronting enemy cavalry.
Not long ago they'd have chased that enemy cavalry forever.
By the time the fourth shell was on the way, the first rank of the enemy cavalry had broken.
Maybe not, too, because more enemy cavalry was working around the Division's right flank, where it didn't have any support.
He is shot down and trampled to death by enemy cavalry in the battle.
Your mission was to screen this army from the enemy cavalry and to report any movement by the enemy's main body.
Or the enemy cavalry for which Jackson and his party had been mistaken?
"The enemy cavalry will simply ride to the centre of the city."
His role was to deflect the enemy cavalry, hold them back if he could.
He then took on the whole of the enemy cavalry by himself.