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| Tango01 | 12 Oct 2020 1:07 p.m. PST |
… XVIe au XVIIIe siècle. "‘Riding hell for leather': the problem of speed in the cavalry charges from the 16thCentury to 18th. The cavalry charge constitutes, without a doubt, an essential aspect that needs to be studied in considering the military uses of horses in the modern era. Speed is one of the fundamental principles of any charge. It is important because, for one thing, it plays a vital part in determining whether the outcome will be a success or a failure. And for another thing, the speed of the charge is a function of a multiplicity of complex elements above the simple physical capacity of the horses involved. The training of the men and their mounts, the weight of the defensive protection they were wearing, the choice to be made between firearms or the sabre feature among the elements that explain why the cuirassiers at the beginning of the Thirty Years War advanced at the trot whereas the horsemen of Charles XII charged at the gallop. Beyond the simple estimation of speed, the analysis of the mechanisms that decided the choice of speeds and which explain the preference for one or another at a given moment enables us to gain a better historical understanding of how cavalry charges unfolded."
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