Willard Ames Holbrook
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Major General Willard Ames Holbrook was a United States Army officer who served for almost forty years. Coming from a family with long military tradition, he was the father of future Brigadier General
Willard Ames Holbrook
Ex-President William Howard Taft presents colors at Camp Sherman, Ohio, August 1918. Stood to the right of ex-President Taft is Brigadier General Willard A. Holbrook.
United States Cavalry
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The United States Cavalry, or U.S. Cavalry, is the designation of the mounted force of the United States Army. The United States Cavalry was formally created by an act of Congress on 3 August 1861. Fr
Willard Ames Holbrook
…April 1918, he was further promoted to major general and placed in command of the 9th Infantry Division. Holbrook's final assignment was as Chief of the U.S. Cavalry. He retired from the Army on July 23, 1924. In 1902, Holbrook married Anna Huntington Stanley (1864 – 1907), daughter of Major General David S. Stanley…
Mid-19th-century U.S. Cavalrymen (right) pursuing Plains Indians.
Polish nobleman and soldier Casimir Pulaski was one of the founders and "fathers of American cavalry".
Captain Charles A. May's squadron of the 2d Dragoons slashes through the Mexican Army lines.
![A US Civil war soldier Cavalry [North] with sabre and Lefaucheux pistol; he wears shoulder scales as part of his dress uniform.](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/20/Unioniste_Lefaucheux.jpg/500px-Unioniste_Lefaucheux.jpg)
A US Civil war soldier Cavalry [North] with sabre and Lefaucheux pistol; he wears shoulder scales as part of his dress uniform.