"infantry attacking cavalry?" Topic

Dear sirs,
Read somewhere the rusian guard infantry attacked the french cavalry? in borodino? greetings serge joe

G'day, Serge Joe.

Correct. From memory (I don't have all my books here) the Russian troops were from IV Corps and they attacked French cavalry (III CAV Corps?) in column and threw them back over the stream. There's other examples, such as the Silesian Schuetzen attacking Polish lancers in the mud at Vauchamps in 1814.

Cheers.

Dal.

We have discussed this before, I remember asking the same question a few years back:

TMP link

Hope this helps Serge!

Hi Dal, greetings ;-)

Some details on Vauchamps, and more in the same thread:

link

Dal we also had this

TMP link

I think there was an incident in the Peninsular War of counter attacking British infantry driving off dragoons. Oman mentions it.

I think most cases required disordered or spent cavalry.

Or cavalry that was in some restrictive terrain where they could not use their speed and maneuverability.

Isn't that terrain producing disorder? I doubt you can consider cavalry in rough terrain to be ordered.

G'day.

Oli, how go things? I've bought photo's from STAM in Belgium (9 KR FR-pattern- on the Kronoscaf site) and HGW in Vienna (1 DR FWR-pattern and 11 DR FR-pattern- I didn't pay the 50 Euros each they wanted to be able to publish them, though) as well as some better photo's from the 1902 Hohenzollern Year Book, so I'm tracing out the designs and will, hopefully, have new flags done for Kronoskaf in a couple of months. They will also carry over to Napoleonics, of course. What the photo's do show is the number of detail differences between FWR designs.

Thanks for the link, I remember that discussion.

Elliott, I didn't remember that one. Hopefully Serge Joe got the info he wanted.

Cheers.

Dal.