buffalo soldier in English
noun
1
(in US history) an African-American cavalry soldier.
His father had been a buffalo soldier in the Twenty-Fifth Infantry stationed at Fort Custer in the early 1890s.
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1. On October 20, 1892, Pershing was promoted to first lieutenant and in 1895 took command of a troop of the 10th Cavalry Regiment, one of the original Buffalo Soldier regiments composed of African-American soldiers under white officers.
2. The 10th Cavalry Regiment is a unit of the United States Army.Formed as a segregated African-American unit, the 10th Cavalry was one of the original "Buffalo Soldier" regiments in the post–Civil War Regular Army.It served in combat during the Indian Wars in the western United States, the Spanish–American War in Cuba and in the Philippine–American War.