So saying, he put his horse through a grand caracole and galloped away.

Why, we couldn't tell a cavalry caracole from a pint of small beer.

It is worth noting that contemporary 16th- and 17th-century sources did not seem to have used the term "caracole" in its modern sense.

In dressage, riders execute a caracole as a single half turn, either to the left or to the right.

However, there is plenty of evidence that the caracole was falling out of use by the 1580s at the latest.

The post boy began to play fanfares and caracole tunes on a long brass horn.

The pistol was specifically developed to try to bring cavalry back into the conflict, together with manoeuvres such as the caracole.

Modern historians regard the caracole as a tactical system that ultimately proved ineffective.

The first charge, headlong, exuberant, certain of victory-no caracole here!

Nevertheless, various variants of the caracole tactics continued to be used well into 17th century against enemy cavalry.

Even orthodox cavalry carried firearms, especially the pistol, which they used in a tactic known as the caracole.

Later the same unit also tried the caracole using gaps in the line of charging husaria heavy cavalry.

He swung his horse up and around in a fine caracole and galloped away across the moors.

The Danish on the other hand, still used the caracole tactic, undermining the speed and agility of their cavalry.

They began wheeling in the caracole, firing their pistols at a distance and circling to reload.

The caracole was a tactic very much criticized by military historians who didn't fully understand its use, especially Charles Oman.

The caracole was rarely tried against enemy cavalry, as it could be easily broken when performing the maneuver by a countercharge.

Perhaps, today, no one remembers absolutely everything of either "Caracole" or "The Figure in the Carpet."

Ever-more elaborate movements, such as wheeling and caracole, were developed to facilitate the use of firearms from horseback.

The military caracole as it is usually understood today developed in the mid-16th century in an attempt to integrate gunpowder weapons into cavalry tactics.

The Cantabrian circle is similar to other cavalry maneuvers such as the caracole and the Parthian shot.

Charles IX was, however, able to implement the Dutch system for fighting in caracole among the cavalry, with unfortunate results.

He replaced the ineffective caracole, where cavalrymen would wheel around and fire pistols from a distance, with the thundering saber charge.

Now it's just stamping our feet and flag-waving, caracole and saunter until the action starts-a little later than any of us expected.

The cuirassiers themselves typically employed caracole tactics, advancing to the charge at a trot, often in a dense formation six or ten ranks deep.