| Tango01 | 14 Dec 2019 10:17 p.m. PST |
"Cavalry charges might win a battle, but with poor leadership they could end in disaster. The key to success was the impact caused when fast-moving objects hit slow or stationary ones. Control was more important than speed, so attacks at the gallop were rare. Many British cavalry charges are remembered and celebrated because of the risk involved, whether successful or not…" Main page
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| nsolomon99 | 15 Dec 2019 3:48 a.m. PST |
Actually it should be titled "Death or Glory: Famous BRITISH cavalry charges" |
| Tango01 | 15 Dec 2019 3:58 p.m. PST |
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Puster  | 16 Dec 2019 12:10 a.m. PST |
Yep, it certainly concentrates quite a little bit on the British by ignoring all others. Then it includes an action against civilians, which makes it perhaps "famous" (or infamous), but certainly not "death or glory". |
| Choctaw | 16 Dec 2019 7:53 a.m. PST |
Yeah, not sure how Peterloo would be glorious. Doesn't take much intestinal fortitude to attack civilians. |
| Tango01 | 16 Dec 2019 11:09 a.m. PST |
Glup II!…. Amicalement
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| von Schwartz | 16 Dec 2019 5:40 p.m. PST |
Never did understand why so many sets of rules rated the British cavalry so highly. Send them off on a charge and you'll never see them again. A true "one trick pony" they will either go through and keep on going right off the table or they will get crushed. |
| Old Wolfman | 18 Dec 2019 8:19 a.m. PST |
Murat at Eylau could have been included. |
| von Schwartz | 18 Dec 2019 5:24 p.m. PST |
Was it Murat who said, "Keep you heads down boys those are musket balls, not  s."? Of course it sounds much cooler in French. |
| Tango01 | 19 Dec 2019 12:21 p.m. PST |
Much more… (smile)
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| Robert le Diable | 01 Jan 2020 12:46 a.m. PST |
Not Murat but Col. Lepic of the Grenadiers a Cheval ("Haute les tetes, le mitraille n'est pas de la merde" or variations); there's a depiction by the C19th French military painter Edouard Detaille. |
