Cavalry

Historically, the cavalry is the whole of the military units of moving combat with Cheval. Certain units of cavalry, the such dragons, could fight with foot. Certain authors classify the units of artillery assembled in the cavalry although they are units of support and not of combat. The cavalry exists since several thousands of years, the first traces preserved going up at.

Since the Second world war, this term also indicates the units equipped with tanks.

History

That one rides bareback or harnessed to a tank, the cavalry represented the greatest threat vis-a-vis the infantry. The light cavalry was used to badger the enemy or to recognize his positions while the heavy cavalry was used for powerful loads devastators.

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With the wire of the history, various components of cavalry appeared:

  • Light cavalry: (also called " eyes and ears of the armée")

    • Hunters with horse specialized in the recognition
    • hussards, harassing and attacking units

  • Cavalry of line: In certain countries (like nottament France under Napoleon), one distinguishes an additional category: a cavalry intermediate between the light cavalry and the heavy cavalry and directed towards the battle itself. (See Description of the 3 types of cavalry)

    • dragons
    • lancers (also called Uhlans): Riders armed with a lance.

  • heavy Cavalry:

    • dragons, heavy cavalry also being able to fight with foot
    • Cuirassier S, heavy cavalry combatant exclusively with horse,
    • tanks, which formed initially part of the Infanterie

For a long time, the cavalry consisted of noble, i.e. among those which were enough rich to finance their equipment.

See too

  • 3 {{E}} Regiment of Lancers

External bonds

  • Horses of the French cavalry at the end of the XVIIe century (1991) per Denis Bogros (1927-2005).
  • the Anglo-Norman, horse of the metropolitan cavalry of IIIe Republic 1874-1914 (1993) per Denis Bogros (1927-2005).
  • History of the horse of troop of the French cavalry: 1515-1918: test (1999) by Denis Bogros (1927-2005).
  • '' In connection with the New Handbook of Horsemanship and Raising '' by the Lieutenant-colonel Henri Blacque-Belair (1912).
  • Frederic Chauvire. The load of cavalry, Bayard with Seydlitz - Books of the CEHD n° 23 2004

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