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Personal logo raducci Supporting Member of TMP01 Nov 2009 2:24 a.m. PST

I am reading Old Fritz's musings on war.
I've come to the section where he recommends firing on your own dragoons if they wouldn't charge home.
He certainly wasn't playing for fun.

Personal logo timurilank Supporting Member of TMP01 Nov 2009 2:32 a.m. PST

Raducci … was this during the First Silesian War?

bavoisSYW01 Nov 2009 3:49 a.m. PST

Nothing like a bit of motivation to get the boys rolling!

Frederick Supporting Member of TMP01 Nov 2009 5:27 a.m. PST

Well – he didn't want them to live forever!

Personal logo John the OFM Supporting Member of TMP01 Nov 2009 5:06 p.m. PST

I wouldn't exactly call it friendly fire.

DJCoaltrain Supporting Member of TMP01 Nov 2009 5:23 p.m. PST

They were Cav, it's not as if they were real people!

Personal logo raducci Supporting Member of TMP01 Nov 2009 10:29 p.m. PST

@ timurilank
Its from art of war book.

abdul666lw Supporting Member of TMP02 Nov 2009 5:02 a.m. PST

"They were Cav, it's not as if they were real people!":
Actually the matter is more complex: for 'true' cavalrymen it would be the opposite, infantrymen not being 'real people' -according to the saying 'Below the cavalryman is his horse and far, far further below the remainder of humankind' (don't know were their wives fit "To our women to our horses and to those mounting them!").
But Dragoons were NOT cavalrymen yet (see their definition in Ambrose Bierce's 'Devil's Dictionary'), they still had drums and guidons rather than trumpets and standards, so the issue is debatable…

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