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Tango01 | 27 Sep 2015 9:50 p.m. PST |
"this great horse lancers versus reiter cavalry and pike infantry battle took place 410 years ago near a town of Salaspis (then Kircholm) in Latvia (then Livonia). Forces were not large – some 11-12,000 attacking Swedes (mostly infantry with 2,500 cavalrymen – numbers after Mariusz Balcerek) and 3,5 to 9,000 defending Polish Crown army (numbers by Radek Sikora), mostly cavalrymen with their camp servants (including 1,000 infantry Polish) plus some 400 reiter cavalrymen from the Duchy of Curland. Perhaps a little comment of the nature of this conflict – well, it was really a dynastic dispute between two royal members of the Swedish Vasa House over the throne of Sweden et al., Polish Commonwealth ruled by the rightful heir to the Swedish throne and Sweden ruled by his uncle and usurper who won over the country in a coup. It was one of the most famous battles won by the Old Polish art of war, mostly based on the combined use of all available forces with the winged hussars acting as the armoured fist of the army, hammering the enemy until they were defeated. Hence, this battle is recognized as one of the greatest triumphs of the winged lancer of Old Poland…"
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