Yes, "the footmen lowered the gates" is written in active voice because the subject of the sentence (the footmen) is performing the action of lowering the gates.
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The plural of footman is footmen.
If Footmen Tire You What Will Horses Do - 1971 was released on: USA: 17 November 1971 (Charleston, West Virginia)
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The word footman is a noun. The plural form is footmen.
My favorite strategy is to assemble 1 units of Mortar Teams and one unit with A hero and eleven footmen, and then lay waste on a town that is busy attacking another town; keeping 5 Footmen standing by guarding the town. :P
Cinderella's fairy godmother turns a rat into a coachman and six lizards into footmen.
An arctiid is a member of the Arctiidae, a family of moths which includes tiger moths, footmen, lichen moths, and wasp moths.
If you are on the right level you can get the peasants to build a barracks and then once that is built you can build footmen and archers.
President Hosni Mubarak has a lot of friends, .. Especially as footmen and scintillating Fella military friends from the days of military