cavalry

In it, he sits on a black stallion, raising his white-feathered hat to salute the cavalry - a tribute to the prime minister and military hero who defeated Napoleon at the Battle of Waterloo.

In practice, the PCC says, this means the small rural crime team "can now call on the whole force as their cavalry", from drones to road policing to armed response.

So, there is a cavalry, but it's stricken right now.

The view in Washington is that Hamas was forced to abandon the idea that "the cavalry was coming to save it", as one US official put it.

“The cavalry is behind me and it is coming.”