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Cavalry

Book 1. (4 results) Tarnsman of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
5	124	For a hundred tarns one might have the daughter of an Administrator, for a thousand perhaps even the daughter of the Ubar of Ar! A thousand tarns would make a formidable addition to the cavalry force of a Gorean warlord.	10
6	3	Flying among the cylinders were tarnsmen, cavalry warriors reveling in the undisciplined liberty of the feast, racing one another, essaying mock passages at arms, sometimes dropping their tarns, like thunderbolts toward the bridges, only to jerk them upward just inches above the terrified heads of t...	10
15	27	Over these bridges the siege towers would be rolled to the walls of Ar; over them his tharlarion cavalry would march; over them his horde would flow.	10
16	19	The human resources on which Pa-Kur could draw seemed inexhaustible, and, as important, he had at his command a considerable force of tharlarion cavalry, an arm almost lacking to the men of Ar.	10

Book 4. (4 results) Nomads of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
2	38	And if I should manage to seize it, how could I carry it away? I had no tarn, one of Gor's fierce saddlebirds; I had not even the monstrous high tharlarion, used as the mounts of shock cavalry by the warriors of some cities.	10
15	7	Four times masses of tharlarion cavalry had charged forth from the city but each time the Hundreds withdrew before them until the charge had been enveloped in the swirling kaiila, and then its riders were brought down swiftly by the flashing arrows of the Tuchuks, riding in closely, almost to lance ...	10
26	23	"My own recommendation," Harold was saying, "would be first to fly my tarn cavalry over the walls, clearing them with thousands of arrows, and then, in a second wave, to fly dozens of ropes of warriors to the roofs of the main buildings, to seize them and burn the others".	10
26	24	"But we have no tarn cavalry," I noted.	10

Book 5. (2 results) Assassin of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
17	215	The Scribes of the Central Cylinder examined the records and, to their horror, discrepancies were revealed, in particular payments to members of the Hinrabian family for services it was not clear had ever been performed; most outstandingly there had been a considerable disbursement for the construct...	10
19	286	"Two hundred and fifteen," called out a high officer in the cavalry of Ar.	10

Book 10. (3 results) Tribesmen of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
11	288	It was used as the vantage point for the Aretai commander at that time, Hammaran, who also launched at a crucial point in the struggle, his picked cavalry, and bodyguard, from that height, turning the battle's tide.	10
23	127	This drift is much less pronounced, but still exists, in cavalry engagements.	10
23	130	This is much more difficult to do in a cavalry engagement than in a foot engagement.	10

Book 14. (1 results) Fighting Slave of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
13	239	A squadron of Ar's tarn cavalry, the stroke of their wings synchronized with the beat of the drum, passed by, overhead.	10

Book 15. (2 results) Rogue of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
4	169	It lay well within the striking distance of a tarn cavalry, such as that which had been employed so devastatingly on the fields and hills south of Vonda.	10
6	26	Ar's committed infantry had been outnumbered but its mobility and its support by their tarn cavalry had compensated to some extent for its lack of weight as a striking force.	10

Book 17. (6 results) Savages of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
6	83	The cavalry crossbow does have an iron stirrup in which the rider, without dismounting, may insert his foot, thus gaining the leverage necessary for drawing the cable back with both hands.	10
14	1074	"Cavalry".	10
14	1143	I followed this with the sign for many, and then the signs for white man and white woman, and for soldiers, and kaiila soldiers, or cavalry.	10
14	1163	"Three days ago, or some three days ago," said Grunt, "a large party of red savages, consisting of Kaiila, Yellow Knives, Sleen, Fleer and Kailiauk fell suddenly upon a wagon train and a column of soldiers, both infantry and cavalry.	10
17	197	The savages on foot would not be able to stop the cavalry, and the pursuers from the south or southeast might be detained at the wagons.	10
17	226	Gorean infantry, with staggered lines and fixed pikes, their butts anchored in the earth, could usually turn an attack of light cavalry.	10

Book 18. (1 results) Blood Brothers of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
28	316	It is also generally ineffective against another cavalry for it permits a shattering and penetration of its own lines.	10

Book 21. (9 results) Mercenaries of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
3	195	This formation, if approached head-on by tharlarion cavalry, is extremely effective.	10
3	196	It constitutes, in effect, a set of corridors of death through which the cavalry must ride, in which it is commonly decimated before it can reach the main lines of the defenders.	10
3	197	When the cavalry is disorganized, shattered and torn by missile fire, and turns about to retreat, the defenders, fresh and eager, initiate their own attack.	10
3	206	At Rovere and Kargash Dietrich coordinated his air and ground cavalry in such a way as to force his opponents into sturdy but relatively inflexible defensive squares.	10
3	214	Then again the ponderous, earthshaking, bellowing, grunting, trampling tharlarion ground cavalry charged, this time breaking through the walls like dried straw, followed by waves of screaming, heavily armed spearmen.	10
9	3	"It will be more Cosian cavalry," said Hurtha.	10
9	7	Too, several contingents of cavalry had swept by us earlier in the evening.	10
9	15	"Cosian cavalry, I think," he said.	10
18	6	The cart was drawn by a bipedalian tharlarion, a slighter breed than, but related to, and swifter than, the common shock tharlarion used generally by the lancers of Gorean heavy cavalry.	10

Book 23. (3 results) Renegades of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
3	50	This training innovation, interestingly enough, and perhaps predictably, was not primarily the result of an attempt to increase the safety of human beings, particularly those in rural areas, but was rather largely the result of attempting to achieve military objectives, in particular those having to...	10
8	622	Alexander would turn cavalry into a decisive arm.	10
8	625	The ascendancy of the cavalry would remain unchallenged until the achievement of revolutions in infantry tactics and missile power, such things as the coming of the massed pikes, and the flighted clothyard shafts of a dozen fields.	10

Book 25. (5 results) Magicians of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
4	64	Who knew what dangers might lie outside the walls? Too, they could always be overtaken by tharlarion cavalry or Cosian tarnsmen.	10
7	215	"Myron, polemarkos of Cos!" I saw nothing for a time but the crowd, the platform, the people on the platform, and Cosians, for several yards to the right, standard bearers, some even bearing the standards of mercenary companies, probably not in the march, such as that of Raymond Rive-du-Bois, musici...	10
7	486	The acceptance of the sword would have constituted a public token of the surrender of Ar's forces, foot and cavalry, both tarn and tharlarion.	10
8	331	The armed forces of Ar had been disbanded, of course, both foot and cavalry, both tharlarion and tarn.	10
19	3	Although our mounts were such, they are not to be confused with the high tharlarion commonly used by Gorean shock cavalry, swift, enormous beasts the charge of which can be so devastating to unformed infantry.	10

Book 26. (1 results) Witness of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
19	37	From them companies of tarn cavalry may be launched to intercept and destroy intruders.	10

Book 27. (3 results) Prize of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
20	72	It is the function of the camp marshal to choose sites, lay out the camps, and, when ready to move, to order the components in the march, arranging wagons, cavalry, stock, guards, scouts, and such.	10
20	410	Many soldiers, infantry, and tharlarion cavalry, accompanied the march.	10
20	411	There may have been as many as three companies with the march, two of infantry and one of tharlarion cavalry.	10

Book 29. (59 results) Swordsmen of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
12	46	Why do you not hire a tarn cavalry from another city, say, Treve, in the Voltai?" "Such a cavalry," said Tajima, "would be theirs, not ours.	10
3	511	That was the passage of several tarns, perhaps a tarn cavalry".	10
3	512	"No," he said, "not a cavalry".	10
3	514	In a tarn cavalry the wing beats are synchronized, much as in the pace of marching men.	10
12	8	"My role here, I am given to understand, is to form and discipline a tarn cavalry," I said.	10
12	34	"Why do you and your people wish a tarn cavalry?" I asked.	10
12	130	"You are familiar, then," said Lord Nishida, "with the tactics of a cavalry, its movements, its applications, and such".	10
12	131	"Light cavalry," I said.	10
12	300	Once we have a hundred or more men who have flighted a tarn and lived, we will begin a more disciplined endeavor, and will try to form riders, with such skills as they will then have, into prides, which you may then form into a cavalry".	10
12	306	An analogy, though quite imperfect, might have been the early transition from cavalry as a supportive arm, used to reconnoiter, harass, and ride down stragglers, to a central arm, a shock arm, of stirruped lancers fit to strike, split and disrupt serried ranks.	10
12	309	For example, it seemed to me that much might be learned from the almost evanescent appearing and disappearing of Tuchuk cavalry.	10
14	103	Lord Nishida had declined to inform me of the likely applications of this projected tarn cavalry, so I had designed it for more than reconnaissance and attack from the air on ground targets.	10
16	35	The cavalry was not, of course, a simple flock, or pride.	10
16	36	The two hundred riders might be thought of, I suppose, as the cavalry, or group, to take an analogy.	10
16	41	One might think, if one wishes, of the cavalry, then the hundreds, then the twenties, then the tens, and then the fives.	10
16	44	Groups of tarnsmen are often referred to as prides, so, in a sense, any of the divisions, including the cavalry as a whole, might be accounted a "pride".	10
16	60	A braver, more pronounced color might have been better for parade purposes, but I had not designed the cavalry for parades.	10
16	67	I gave the signal for putting arrows to the string, and drew my tarn up, over the cavalry, to better observe the outcome of the exercise.	10
16	77	The war horn's blast burst out from beneath me and I saw the cavalry, in its diving, wedgelike, suddenly widening, formation, to allow for a broad front of arrow fire, rank behind rank, deploy.	10
16	122	This was the first time I had had the cavalry strike publicly, while under official observation, at ground targets in formation.	10
16	165	I had wheeled the tarn about, to alight at the end of the training plaza, to which, by prearrangement, the cavalry had returned, when I wheeled him about again, puzzled at the confusion below.	10
16	172	I must remain with the cavalry.	10
16	181	I then placed Torgus in command of the cavalry, with orders to remain on alert, and designated Lysander, a mercenary, once of Market of Semris, to second him.	10
16	273	I did not wait, but raced toward the cavalry.	10
16	285	I had never seen so large a tarn cavalry as now approached Tarncamp.	10
16	289	As Tuchuk cavalry we would close as little as possible.	10
17	33	Although the numbers were prodigious, considered merely as military units, these riders, I supposed, would be less a cavalry than a conglomerate or horde.	10
17	50	I do not doubt that the invading force, for the moment seemingly unopposed, would suppose our smaller cavalry had judiciously forsaken the field, even as, unbeknownst to the central body of the invaders, dozens of our tarnsmen, darting to and fro, were shredding its margins.	10
17	80	But presumably such a cavalry as we engaged, massive, overconfident, and clumsy, would not think in terms of reserves, certainly not for turning the tides of battle.	10
20	25	"The cavalry," said Tajima.	10
22	127	"You wear the cavalry's gray, and betrayed it," said Tajima.	10
24	131	"They are not of the cavalry".	10
24	195	"I do not know why I was brought to the forests," I said, "or who saw to my bringing, but I have formed your cavalry, for whatever purpose it might serve, and others, Torgus, Lysander, Tajima, Ichiro, might now command it.	10
26	201	More than one battle was lost when an infantry took advantage of heavy rainfall to attack a foe, a foe temporarily deprived of the support of its tarn cavalry.	10
26	233	"There is a cavalry here," I said.	10
28	370	"He who is captain, commander, of the cavalry?" she said.	10
29	30	He, with the cavalry, had come ahead, days ago.	10
29	40	That he had addressed me first, rather than I him, was appropriate, given that I was his captain, so to speak, with respect to the cavalry.	10
32	12	My men, of the cavalry, were not in evidence either.	10
32	18	I had trained the cavalry, it might be recalled, to respond to the notes of such a device, a war horn.	10
35	20	"This is Tarl Cabot, tarnsman, commander of the tarn cavalry, victor at the battle of Tarncamp, of whom I have spoken," said Lord Nishida.	10
35	25	It was my honor to command his cavalry".	10
35	129	"Without you," said Lord Nishida, "the cavalry might mutiny".	10
38	74	Torgus, Ichiro, Lysander, and others, would be with the cavalry.	10
38	84	He would be with the cavalry.	10
38	106	"I would you were with the cavalry," said Tajima.	10
38	110	Tajima was to command the cavalry in my absence.	10
38	114	"I must return to the cavalry," said Tajima.	10
38	168	Pertinax, no more than I, by the instructions of Lord Nishida, was to be with the cavalry.	10
38	268	On what grounds, comprehensible to one such as he, might a would-be assassin be freed? Had I been in league with him? I suspected that one of less stature in the camp, one who, say, was not the commander of the cavalry, might have fared rather poorly following such an act.	10
38	271	It was not surprising, I supposed, that I was not this morning with the cavalry.	10
38	303	Clearly Lord Nishida's plans involved tarns beyond those of the present cavalry.	10
38	334	Perhaps Lord Nishida had served his purpose, supplying lumber to the shipwrights at the Alexandra camp, arranging for the formation and training of a tarn cavalry, and such.	10
38	532	"You are curious, you wish to accompany the cavalry, you find it difficult to resist the unknown, you are unwilling to step aside from the path to adventure, a trait with which we of the Pani are not unfamiliar, and you are interested in a far shore".	10
39	11	I gathered that few tarnsmen cared to meet with the cavalry after the battle of Tarncamp.	10
39	35	"Do you feel, Tajima," said Lord Nishida, "that the cavalry may deal with such weaponry?" "Yes," he said.	10
43	90	"I have a recruit for the cavalry," said Lord Nishida, "one who has demonstrated his capacity to ride, and one whose sword is a welcome addition to our blades".	10
43	171	"Lord Okimoto," said Lord Nishida, "desires that you accept our friend, Rutilius, of Ar, in the cavalry".	10
43	194	"He is not with the cavalry," I said.	10

Book 30. (33 results) Mariners of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
16	316	Within a handful of Ehn forty riders of the tarn cavalry were at the rail, each armed with the small Tuchuk bow, used by the tarn cavalry, a weapon of considerable power, which may be swept easily from one side of a saddle to the other.	10
7	163	He was of the tarn cavalry.	10
7	270	I saw again, amongst them, as I had on former days, Tarl Cabot, himself, commander of the tarn cavalry, and his friend, Pertinax.	10
8	60	Its rider, now dismounting, was one of the Pani, a man called Tajima, who was of the retinue of Lord Nishida, but serving in the cavalry.	10
9	69	A tarn cavalry was clearly intended, which was, I suspected, intended to be a decisive arm in some projected campaign.	10
9	80	The tarnsman, Tarl Cabot, was apparently the commander of the tarn cavalry.	10
9	101	Both bows are different from the short, stout Tuchuk bow, or saddle bow, which, I had learned, had been introduced by the tarnsman, Tarl Cabot, into the weaponry of the tarn cavalry.	10
9	489	"Those of the cavalry," called Cabot, "return to your quarters".	10
9	503	"I would have regretted losing the commander of the tarn cavalry," said Lord Nishida.	10
14	28	Our galley was captained by the warrior Pertinax, a friend, it seemed, of the commander of the tarn cavalry, Tarl Cabot.	10
15	19	Tyrtaios' place with Lord Nishida had been taken by Turgus, an officer in the tarn cavalry, who had been given the command of one of the four remaining nested galleys.	10
15	20	When called to flight, Turgus' galley was to fall to Pertinax, and if the entire cavalry were put aflight, I was pleased that the galley's command would fall to Philoctetes, a mariner of Cos, for whom I would be eager to draw oar.	10
16	68	"The commander of the tarn cavalry would speak with you," I said.	10
17	40	I have upon occasion mentioned an officer named Pertinax, a friend, it seems, of Tarl Cabot, the commander, or captain, of the tarn cavalry.	10
17	125	If Lord Nishida knew of the interest of Pertinax in his slave, he had not, at least as yet, as far as I knew, brought his disapproval, doubtless subtly, to the attention of Tarl Cabot, the commander of the tarn cavalry, who then, presumably, as Pertinax's friend, and commanding officer, would advise...	10
21	244	Tarl Cabot, the tarnsman, commander of the tarn cavalry, had now joined Lords Okimoto and Nishida at the rail.	10
22	122	"Much depends on the tarn cavalry," he said.	10
22	221	These men were not even in position when Lord Nishida signaled to his left flank and right flank, the left commanded by Tajima, of his retinue, whom I knew primarily as a Pani tarnsman, liaison to, or lieutenant to, Cabot, in the tarn cavalry, and the strange warrior, Nodachi, commanding the right f...	10
23	15	I was now in attendance on Tarl Cabot, commander of the tarn cavalry.	10
24	17	Tarl Cabot, commander of the tarn cavalry, and his men, were not with us.	10
24	149	They had not been taken with the tarn cavalry, to whatever might have been its destination.	10
24	154	At the World's End, who could gainsay the Pani? The tarn cavalry had been brought, largely intact, to the holding of Lord Temmu.	10
24	192	To be sure, I had no idea where Pertinax might be, save that I supposed him with the tarn cavalry, wherever that might be.	10
25	32	I gathered things proceeded apace with the tarn cavalry, surely so if they were as deep in training as we were.	10
26	189	He is Tarl Cabot, commander of the tarn cavalry, in the forces of Lords Nishida and Okimoto, and, I suppose, now, of Lord Temmu".	10
26	249	"But Seremides," I said, "can scarcely hobble about, and Cabot is much in the mountains, with the tarn cavalry".	10
27	110	Too, whereas a tarn cavalry can acquire intelligence, strike unexpectedly, cut supply lines, and such, it is of limited value against a distributed land force.	10
30	14	We do not know how serious they are, but we cannot risk the loss of the cavalry".	10
35	161	"Rather, I bring you greetings from Lord Nishida and from Tarl Cabot, tarnsman, commander of the tarn cavalry of Lord Temmu".	10
36	193	"I am pleased," said the stranger, "to have had conveyed to me the greetings of Lord Nishida and Tarl Cabot, commander of the tarn cavalry".	10
36	414	"Tarl Cabot is important to the tarn cavalry," said the captain.	10
37	553	"It is my conjecture," she said, "that Lord Nishida and Master Tarl Cabot, who commands the tarn cavalry of Lord Temmu, would not have been likely, as an expression of their esteem and gratitude to my master, to send him so negligible a gift as a mere slave, and one untrained, too".	10
37	575	"Now a gift of true worth," she said, "is presented by a slave to her master, with the affection and regard of Lord Nishida and Tarl Cabot, commander of the tarn cavalry of Lord Temmu".	10

Book 31. (1 results) Conspirators of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
18	1158	"Perhaps then," said Desmond, "cavalry tharlarion, war tharlarion".	10

Book 32. (10 results) Smugglers of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
52	940	"He would be of the cavalry, but not on the cavalry's business," said my master.	10
14	109	"I could, Tarl Cabot, the commander of the tarn cavalry could, and doubtless several others, but not so many".	10
14	110	I knew little of the tarn cavalry, though it had been formed, and was still being trained, in the vicinity.	10
14	111	It did not seem to me that a large number of tarns would be necessary in patrolling a river, certainly not a cavalry of such.	10
14	203	Some days ago there had been a failed attempt on the life of Lord Nishida, which attempt had been shortly followed by a presumably coordinated, large-scale attack on the camp, one beaten away, on the ground, by Pani and mercenaries, and in the air, by Lord Nishida's tarn cavalry, commanded by the ta...	10
15	233	"Were they not such marksmen," she said, "they would not be in their saddles; there would be no place for them in the cavalry".	10
15	475	Indeed, the tarn cavalry, trained toward the west, close to Tarncamp, was also to join us before we embarked.	10
31	13	"Little was accomplished by the raid on Tarncamp, which was repulsed, and few desire to again encounter the sky cavalry of the enemy It is unusual and formidable.	10
50	359	I did not think him a common member of the mercenary infantry, nor of the tarn cavalry.	10
52	939	"He does not wear the gray of the Pani's cavalry," I said.	10

Book 33. (211 results) Rebels of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
14	70	"With Tarl Cabot, tarnsman," he said, "goes the cavalry; with the cavalry goes the sky; with the sky goes victory".	10
17	158	"Two others are senior, Lysander and Torgus, each of whom commanded a Century when the cavalry was intact, who will remain with the cavalry".	10
48	45	"And in what way, and to what end, great lord," I said, "are we to discuss the cavalry?" "You understand, of course," he said, "from the demonstration in the vicinity of the holding of Temmu, that the cavalry cannot meet the iron dragon.	10
1	15	"I should return to the cavalry," I said.	10
1	43	Picked units of Yamada's infantry, it was conjectured of some two hundred troops each, undetected, or unreported, by scouts, approaching through four narrow passes, had surprised, and stormed, the cots and ancillary structures of Lord Temmu's tarn cavalry.	10
1	53	I was not present at the time of the attack, having been summoned to the castle of Lord Temmu, that I might report on the readiness of the cavalry.	10
1	75	I was proud of the cavalry and it had well proven its reliability and formidableness in combat, for it had met and defeated a far larger force in the skies over the northern forests, a force intent on the destruction of Tarncamp, and, later, one supposes, Shipcamp.	10
1	109	It is a hidden place, a secret place, where the remainder of the cavalry will be safe until needed".	10
1	117	"You wish me to relocate the cavalry here?" I had said, indicating the place on the map called to my attention by Lord Temmu.	10
1	256	The tarn cavalry, on which we were to rely for victory, has been discovered, surprised, and put to rout.	10
1	274	"He could not have known the secret location of the cavalry camp," said Lord Okimoto.	10
1	283	"The commander's place is with the cavalry," said Lord Nishida.	10
1	310	It is not I alone who could command the tarn cavalry.	10
1	317	"To command the cavalry?" I said.	10
1	336	"Who know what he sees, or senses?" "It is my understanding," said Lord Okimoto, "that this Tajima, liaison between your command and the cavalry, was lost in the attack on the camp".	10
1	379	"The cavalry is not to be committed without orders from Lord Temmu," said Lord Okimoto.	10
1	395	"Given the matter of the camp of tarns," said Lord Okimoto, "the unconscionable losses to the cavalry there, I do not think that would be wise".	10
1	440	"It already grows hopeless," said Lord Okimoto, "as the cavalry seems unable to supply the holding".	10
1	488	As it turned out I was to be enlisted in the service of Pani warriors, to equip and train a tarn cavalry, for eventual deployment at the World's End.	10
1	514	"The commander clearly understands, I trust," said Lord Okimoto, "the cavalry is not to be committed, or engaged, without direct orders from Lord Temmu".	10
2	12	The guard personnel had been instituted as an independent command, that the training and readiness of the cavalry not be compromised.	10
2	13	This was essentially a sound military decision as the cavalry's mission would not be well served by, and might be jeopardized by, devoting a large complement of its strength to its own protection.	10
2	21	In particular, guard personnel were now drawn from the cavalry itself, despite this depletion of ready personnel.	10
2	24	Lastly, they were given to understand that their report lines were now internal to the cavalry itself.	10
2	25	In problematical situations, they were not to act, if at all possible, without an explicit authorization administered through recognized officers in the cavalry's chain of command.	10
2	33	I ranked high amongst the mercenaries, and certainly, as least as I understood it, in the cavalry, regarded as so crucial to the strategic intentions of the shogun.	10
2	123	"Tal, Noble Foes! I greet you! I am Tarl Cabot, commander of the cavalry of Lord Temmu.	10
2	156	I had formed and trained the cavalry, and commanded it in the northern forests.	10
2	171	Was this not a treason compared to which my lapse in the marshes was meaningless? I was still the commander of the tarn cavalry, however torn and depleted it might be.	10
2	181	I was once again Tarl Cabot, an officer, the commander of the tarn cavalry of Lord Temmu.	10
3	23	Might there not then be traitors within the tarn cavalry itself? I dismounted.	10
3	44	Might it know what was in the darkness? In the cavalry we had often changed mounts.	10
4	25	It is done with a tarn cavalry in enemy or disputed territory.	10
4	146	He was loyal to the cavalry, to his shogun, Lord Temmu, and to his daimyo, Lord Nishida.	10
6	180	At the cavalry's encampment matters, though austere, were less harrowing and strained, given the smaller numbers involved, and the availability of local game, tarsk, tabuk, and verr.	10
7	166	"We expected much from the tarn cavalry," he said.	10
7	258	"I should remove the cavalry".	10
7	346	"Even before the formation and training of the cavalry?" I asked.	10
7	397	"Let it be thought," I said, "that I have withdrawn the cavalry, that we have deserted the banner of Temmu".	10
8	28	"And in the camp it is said that Tarl Cabot, tarnsman, has deserted the banner of Temmu, and that the tarn cavalry, what remained of it, is fled".	10
8	41	I had full confidence in the tarn cavalry.	10
9	79	The tarn cavalry, less than a pasang north of the holding, was mounted, and waiting.	10
9	83	I had requested that Tajima be the one to raise the banner, signaling the cavalry.	10
9	86	In moments the remnants of the tarn cavalry, limited now to fifty-one mounts, was streaking through the clouds over the holding, making its way, in formation, though without tarn drum, to the encampment of Yamada, to fire as many tents as possible.	10
9	103	It was just as well, for there would be little purpose in bringing the cavalry to the holding, and, in addition, I was reluctant to see the disposition allotted to the trapped looters, many of whom were not even armed, their greed having encouraged them to disburden themselves of the inconvenience a...	10
9	117	"Yes!" It had originally been hoped that a major land battle with the forces of Lord Yamada, a battle decisive for the outcome of the war, might have been brought about, a battle which might turn profitably on the unexpected appearance of the tarn cavalry, a military arm new to the islands.	10
9	124	The exploratory force had failed to rouse the countryside against Lord Yamada and had been unable to set the stage for a major confrontation in which the surprise of the tarn cavalry might be decisive.	10
9	128	It had been stormed by picked troops, following which the tarn cavalry itself had been considerably reduced, this impairing its effectiveness as an agency not only of intelligence and attack, but of supply.	10
9	137	"I am pleased that Lord Temmu has finally authorized the use of the cavalry," said Lysander.	10
10	116	I brought the cavalry down a pasang and a half from the road.	10
10	119	Following our landing I summoned Torgus and Lysander to me; when the cavalry had been at full force each would have commanded a Century, or Hundred.	10
10	160	"Are you content," I asked, "that the operations of the cavalry should be limited largely to reconnaissance, to the securing of supplies, and such?" "No," said Torgus.	10
10	166	"It is my understanding," said Lysander, "Lord Temmu has not authorized the use of the cavalry".	10
10	196	"The cavalry," said Torgus, "would be, in effect, a free company".	10
10	209	"Given a passive peasantry and an inactive, curbed, cavalry, not to be feared, he is likely to be prepared only for pilfering, or, say, isolated acts of brigandage".	10
11	4	As soon as the tarn had been seen the small warning gong had sounded its single note, and I had left the tent I employed as the field headquarters of the cavalry.	10
11	12	If the gong rang thrice, or repeatedly, this signified the cavalry was to prepare for flight.	10
11	23	"I must raise the flag at the castle," he said, "on the closing of the courtyard gates, to signal the beginning of the cavalry attack on the camp of Lord Yamada.	10
11	117	How is it that the cavalry flew? Was this action not forbidden? He withdraws his troops to protect his towns, holdings, palaces, and fortresses from fire cast down from the sky".	10
11	137	"The cavalry brought an end to the siege," said Tajima.	10
11	138	"The cavalry," I said, "has its values, and purposes".	10
11	141	"Which, it seems," said Tajima, "the commander failed to convey to the cavalry".	10
11	173	"The offense must begin," I said, "to be abetted with the cavalry".	10
11	199	The point at the time, at least in terms of strategy, was to conceal the cavalry until its appearance, presumably at the turning point of a crucial battle, might have a devastating psychological effect on a startled, superstitious enemy, and turn the tide in favor of the house of Temmu.	10
11	212	"Lord Temmu, Lord Okimoto," he said, "did not approve of your unauthorized use of the cavalry".	10
11	216	"The use of the cavalry was not authorized," he said.	10
11	319	He was master of Tarncamp, he supported the formation of the tarn cavalry and its training.	10
12	115	* * * Whereas I had been willing, under the force of circumstances, recognizing treachery in high places, and the lack of practical alternatives, to conduct the cavalry as a rogue arm, aflight on behalf of Lord Temmu, I was unwilling to transform it into what would be in effect a brigade of bandits ...	10
12	128	"Cry 'One-strap!'" he said, "and the cavalry will be aflight".	10
12	130	"As appointed commander of the cavalry I was willing, under unusual circumstances, hoping to advance the cause of the house of Temmu, to exercise my own judgment, to act on my own initiative, to act independently of the chain of command, but all that was while I held the post and rank of commander, ...	10
12	194	"How fares the cavalry?" he said.	10
12	199	"The cavalry has been prematurely deployed," he said.	10
12	320	"To whomsoever is appointed to the command of the cavalry," I said, "I would recommend a continuation of the raids on the heartland of Lord Yamada, abetted with judicious skirmishes and attacks of small scale.	10
13	114	He is an officer in the tarn cavalry in the forces of Lord Temmu, respected, trusted, and relied upon".	10
14	47	"You wish the services of the tarn cavalry?" I said.	10
14	52	Thus, he would gratify me, avoid the flight of the iron dragon, and retain his cavalry".	10
14	60	"The men are yours, the cavalry is yours," he said.	10
14	65	You formed these men into an arm of war, a cavalry, trained it, and led it, even in a great sky battle across the sea.	10
14	76	"Fortunately for Lord Temmu," said General Yamada, "they are confirming that Tarl Cabot, commander of the cavalry, is alive".	10
14	94	"What if," I asked, "the cavalry had accepted a new commander?" "Do not even think of it," said Lord Yamada.	10
14	110	"And," he said, "now, too, is the cavalry".	10
15	20	It was not much different, in its expanse, from a small buckler, of the sort carried by the cavalry.	10
15	26	The small cavalry buckler, too, was edged, and, if one were close enough to a foe, might be similarly formidable.	10
17	141	"It is my understanding," I said, "that you wish to acquire the services of the tarn cavalry".	10
17	151	Too, such contacts are essential as we progress in the matter of the control of the cavalry.	10
17	164	"What would be the value of four tarns," he said, "while the cavalry retains several times that number?" "True," I said.	10
17	168	Thus, if a schedule is not well kept, or if any attempt should be made to obtain the tarns, the tarns, in the keeping of the remaining tarnsman, will take flight, returning safely to your camp, and the cavalry will have lost only two junior officers.	10
17	169	Matters, of course, I anticipate, will proceed well, and our two young friends will return on tarnback with their companion to your camp, from which, thereafter, the cavalry will obey my orders".	10
18	23	"The cavalry is still yours," said Pertinax.	10
18	25	"None but the cavalry anticipated this," said Tajima.	10
18	30	"That you are here, and alive," said Tajima, "indicates that Lord Yamada has designs on the cavalry".	10
18	64	"Lord Yamada will not risk me free and in command of the cavalry.	10
18	69	His intent is to keep me hostage, while the cavalry is employed in his interests".	10
18	90	"Lord Akio," I said, "these are two friends, officers in the cavalry, Tajima and Pertinax.	10
20	382	"Two of our honored guests," said Lord Yamada, "following my arrangements, designed to make clear my trustworthiness and good will, will soon leave, to rendezvous somewhere with one or more compatriots, following which they will return to the encampment of the cavalry.	10
20	383	There they will reassure the cavalry of the safety and health of its commander, Tarl Cabot, tarnsman, bear to it my good wishes and assure it of my friendship.	10
20	384	It is then my hope that the cavalry, in the light of the despicable treatment of their commander, Tarl Cabot, tarnsman, betrayed into the hands of a putative enemy, but an actual friend, the dreadful perfidy of the house of Temmu, the righteousness of my cause, and the wisdom of an alliance, one bot...	10
20	513	Summon Tatsu, reader of bones and shells!" Ah, I thought to myself, what message will be revealed amongst the scattered bones and shells, to be carried by Tajima and Pertinax to the holding of Lord Temmu where, doubtless, it will be confirmed by the noble Daichi? I thought it would most likely have ...	10
20	534	"They speak of the tarn cavalry," said Lord Yamada, "and of the house of Temmu.	10
20	608	Take now your chains of gold and assure your compatriots of the cavalry that as much or more awaits them when they take to the saddle in the name of Yamada, Shogun of the Islands".	10
21	128	His major goal, as I realized, was obtaining and controlling the tarn cavalry, or at least assuring its neutrality.	10
21	324	'Welcome then, and well met, friend Ichiro, honored bannerman of the cavalry,' said reprehensible Tajima.	10
21	380	He has designs upon the tarn cavalry which might be imperiled, should such as Tajima and Pertinax be slain, or wounded.	10
22	12	"Are you willing to pledge the cavalry to my service?" he asked, regarding me over the brim of the small cup of tea.	10
22	14	"But one would have to consult with the cavalry, the officers and men".	10
22	24	"This matter of the cavalry," he said, "has been beset with difficulties and delays.	10
22	28	As I read the situation, the cavalry is estranged from the house of Temmu, given its betrayal of its commander.	10
22	38	"I suspect," he said, "that the most I may hope for is the neutrality of the cavalry".	10
22	39	"Given the neutrality of the cavalry, and the forces, and generalship, at your disposal," I said, "the war's outcome may be easily envisioned".	10
22	40	"In the meantime," he said, "I think there is little to fear from the cavalry while you are my guest".	10
22	49	"Were I assured of the sessility of the cavalry, that it would not act," he said, "I believe things might proceed apace".	10
22	50	"As your guest," I said, "I am in no position to speak for the cavalry".	10
22	56	"The cavalry," I said, "might fly, and possibly south".	10
22	71	"I do not think the cavalry will act while you are my guest," he said.	10
23	315	"But I think he now despairs of enlisting the cavalry, but he needs no more than its neutrality, of which he feels assured".	10
24	146	What if the cavalry should intervene, on behalf of the house of Temmu?" "Two golden chains," he said, "may perhaps purchase its quiescence".	10
24	164	A pebble in the scale could put the cavalry aflight in my interest".	10
24	168	"As you hold me, you hold the cavalry?" I said.	10
24	171	"If the cavalry does not fly for Yamada," he said, "it will not fly at all".	10
27	144	"He is not certain of the cavalry," I said.	10
27	145	"The noble one forgets," said Haruki, "that the cavalry is likely to suppose you are still in the palace".	10
27	147	"Accordingly," he said, "Lord Yamada, has little to fear, at least at present, from the intervention of the cavalry".	10
27	185	"Why has he acted now?" "He believes the cavalry immobilized," I said.	10
27	195	"Why does he march now? Why does he risk the intervention of the cavalry?" "So, why?" I asked.	10
27	197	How else can we explain what he is doing, given the ruination the cavalry might visit upon his troops and holdings".	10
27	199	"He is doubtless wary of the cavalry," he said, "but I do not think he now holds it to be the same dreaded, decisive unknown, on which the fate of islands might depend".	10
28	33	"He is Tajima, an officer in the cavalry.	10
29	200	"You are the property of Tajima, officer in the tarn cavalry, liaison to the forces of Lord Nishida, daimyo to the shogun, Lord Temmu," I said.	10
29	456	Her bonds, applied to assist in controlling her movements during the application of the iron, were removed, and she was again placed on all fours before her master, Tajima, he of the tarn cavalry.	10
30	414	"Behold," proclaimed Tajima, looking down, pleased, upon his handiwork, "the daughter of Lord Yamada, supposed Shogun of the Islands, a slave, and the slave of Tajima, servitor to the daimyo, Lord Nishida of Nara, Tajima, officer in the tarn cavalry of Lord Temmu, commanded by the warrior Tarl Cabot...	10
35	15	Thus, for some reason, which I do not understand, it seems he is prepared to discount the danger of the tarn cavalry.	10
39	24	"With you in command," said Pertinax, "if you care to invest the cavalry, Yamada, as before, can be forced to withdraw".	10
39	27	He would not advance north unless he felt justified in dismissing the threat of the cavalry".	10
40	6	"We see none, Commander san," said Ichiro, bannerman of the cavalry.	10
44	3	"We have the assurance of the tarn cavalry, that it will fly on behalf of our house?" said Lord Temmu, gazing over the parapet.	10
44	27	"I am pleased," said Lord Nishida, "that you have been reinstated as commander of the tarn cavalry".	10
44	29	"The cavalry," said Pertinax, "never owned another".	10
44	31	Lord Temmu had relieved me of my command, as he thought, but the cavalry, as I understood it, had remained mine, and now, with no change in things, Lord Temmu had supposedly returned my command.	10
44	32	But the reality was that the cavalry had repudiated in fact, if not in name, its allegiance to Lord Temmu, following his betrayal of me into the power of Lord Yamada.	10
44	33	The cavalry was now, in fact, if not in name, an independent unit.	10
44	36	"Why should he not fear the cavalry? It lifted the siege, it ruined camps, it shocked troops into disarray, it disrupted supply lines, it burned storehouses, it spread havoc throughout villages, towns, and fortresses of Lord Yamada, it forced the withdrawal of his army, to protect the core of his ho...	10
44	38	"Perhaps," said Lord Okimoto, "he has assurances that the cavalry will not fly".	10
44	42	"The cavalry," I said, "is stationed now in the hills nearby, not at the encampment of tarns.	10
44	46	"If Lord Okimoto wishes," I said, angrily, "I can withdraw the cavalry".	10
44	49	"Dismissing the interesting question of the cavalry, its intentions, its allegiance, its reliability, and such, the holding has been resupplied," said Lord Nishida.	10
44	54	"Lord Yamada has been informed," I said, "that if his advance does not cease, and he does not retire to his ancestral lands, the cavalry will fly".	10
44	61	"Perhaps," said Lord Okimoto, "that the cavalry will not fly".	10
44	143	"The cavalry is aflight," said Lord Temmu, with satisfaction.	10
44	149	"Yet he advances! How can it be?" "He did not think the cavalry would fly," said Lord Okimoto.	10
44	156	"I should be with the cavalry," I said, "and so, too, others, Tajima and Pertinax".	10
44	177	Then the cavalry may return to his ancestral lands to burn and pillage".	10
44	227	The sight of this thing, the noise, the smoke, and flames, the spillage of rocks and the spumes of dust, brought the tarn cavalry wheeling about, to do battle, to protect the holding.	10
45	93	For example, though the iron dragon clearly incorporates the technology of Priest-Kings, it just as clearly violates the laws of Priest-Kings, and would thus, in countering the effect of the cavalry, seem to tip a balance in favor of Yamada".	10
45	112	"It might have been entailed by the wager, that a tarn cavalry be formed, to even the strengths of war".	10
45	126	I did agree to form and train a tarn cavalry.	10
45	137	"Even with the emergence of the iron dragon," said Tajima, "the tarn cavalry is of great value to Lord Temmu".	10
46	416	Do you have anyone in mind?" "Anyone in the cavalry," said Tajima.	10
47	13	The tarn cavalry cannot withstand the fire of the iron dragon, which is even now poised to spread its wings.	10
47	54	"Does the great lord not fear the tarn cavalry?" asked Nodachi.	10
47	88	"I no longer need the tarn cavalry," he said.	10
48	15	Too, as he is neither an officer nor a tarnsman, and outside the command structure of the cavalry, I saw no point in including him in our group".	10
48	26	"The cavalry," I said.	10
48	52	"Let us suppose," I said, "that the cavalry maintains several tarns".	10
48	54	"In which case," I said, "the cavalry might be in several places at once, whereas the iron dragon can be in but one.	10
48	55	Where the iron dragon is not, the cavalry might be".	10
48	64	"So, too," I said, "will be the senior officers of the cavalry".	10
48	70	"Not to the cavalry," he said.	10
48	72	"The cavalry is not defeated.	10
48	75	What then is the purpose of our discussion?" "I would like a guarantee of the inactivity, the neutrality, of the cavalry," he said.	10
48	79	"The cavalry itself," he said.	10
53	34	Indeed, it was there that I was displayed long ago, that any concern the cavalry might have entertained with respect to my welfare might be dispelled".	10
54	191	As earlier, the cavalry had forced the lifting of the siege, so now, it seemed, the iron dragon might render it unnecessary, demolishing the holding.	10
54	243	"And who," asked Tajima, "would sue a dragon for mercy?" "Perhaps Lord Temmu will engage the cavalry," said Pertinax.	10
54	244	"The cavalry is no longer a minion of the house of Temmu," I said.	10
54	247	"At best," said Pertinax, "the cavalry could do little more than attack the cameras, little more than blind the dragon".	10
54	250	"Still," said Tajima, "the cavalry might fling itself upon the dragon, however madly, however futilely".	10
57	72	The role of the cavalry in all this was not clear, and it had remained a substantially independent force since the betrayal of its commander to the house of Temmu's foe, Lord Yamada.	10
60	389	"Where is the noble warrior, Tajima, of the house of Temmu, of the service of Lord Nishida, of the cavalry of Tarl Cabot, tarnsman?" cried Arashi.	10
60	466	Indeed, with them, I trust, will be members of the cavalry.	10
60	467	This will allow me to communicate with the cavalry itself, which is important.	10
60	473	Personally, I need only communicate somehow with the cavalry itself".	10
61	25	The cavalry had reserved to itself tarns, and their training.	10
61	103	The tarnsmen would almost certainly be of the cavalry.	10
61	105	I would thus be able to transmit certain orders to the cavalry.	10
61	168	As the tarn cavalry was either neutral to, or allied with, the house of Temmu, and as there was too little time for mining, an assault must take place at the perimeter.	10
61	184	It was more in the nature of a decree, or ukase, imposed by those in a position to impose and enforce it, in this case, the cavalry, now commanded by young Tajima, tarnsman.	10
61	209	"For a time," I said, "the cavalry will keep the peace".	10
61	216	"The cavalry was once decimated, nearly destroyed," he said.	10
61	223	"There is always the danger of dissension and corruption within the cavalry itself," he said.	10
61	231	"Brave, loyal men may replenish the cavalry," said Lord Nishida.	10
61	274	"And thus," said he, "you made contact with the cavalry".	10
61	342	"How goes the cavalry?" "Its beasts are healthy, its rounds are made, its weapons are sharpened," said Tajima.	10
61	420	It was after that that Ichiro had waited for darkness, to retrieve me, if possible, from the camp of the house of Temmu, where I had presented myself to Lords Nishida and Okimoto, in the hope, first, of preventing the advance of the invasion force, and, secondly, of somehow managing to make contact ...	10
61	426	These days, and the availability of tarns, allowing an expedited communication, gave me the opportunity to marshal the cavalry in such a way that I would be justified in issuing my ultimatum to both houses, peace, or destruction.	10
61	508	Naturally, threats were made, and bribes offered, by both sides, but the barbarian, and certain others, high in the cavalry, remained unshaken in their peculiar resolve.	10
61	509	"Both houses, of course," the barbarian informed them, "will contribute to the upkeep, comfort, and welfare of the cavalry".	10
61	515	"I have considered that possibility in the orders issued to the cavalry," I said.	10
61	525	"It was feared," said Lord Nishida, "that you might be reluctant to join our cause, and we had much need of a tarn cavalry, that required to balance the numerical superiority of the troops of Lord Yamada".	10
61	531	"Perhaps I was curious, perhaps it suggested adventure, perhaps the daring of Thassa, the seeking of the World's End, and such, riches perhaps, perhaps the challenge of forming, equipping, training, and testing in battle a new form of tarn cavalry".	10
61	540	"So I organized and trained the cavalry," I said.	10
61	542	"Following my betrayal by the house of Temmu," I said, "which I trust has not been forgotten, the tarn cavalry became an independent arm, and so it remains".	10
61	548	"You will surrender the tarn cavalry to the house of Temmu," said Lord Temmu.	10
61	595	Perhaps wary of displeasing me, as I was important to the cavalry, he had been taken in chains aboard the ship of Tersites, where he was to be put to the oar in one of the great ship's nested galleys.	10
61	614	"The surrender of the tarn cavalry, its relocation, the replacement of its officers with his creatures, and such," I said.	10
61	622	"The orders issued to the cavalry are quite clear," I said.	10
61	682	"You are Tarl Cabot," she said, "a tarnsman, the commander of the cavalry".	10
61	684	I no longer command the cavalry.	10
61	685	The commander of the cavalry is now a Pani tarnsman, the warrior, Tajima".	10
61	892	"No dire fate will be imposed upon you by Lord Temmu as a consequence of my decision, lest the cavalry retaliate".	10
61	1060	"We owe you much for the cavalry," he said, "and very little at present".	10
61	1071	"Lord Temmu," I said, "would doubtless have preferred to possess a relocated cavalry, staffed according to his will".	10