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Tango01 Supporting Member of TMP02 Aug 2023 10:20 p.m. PST

"By the end of the 17th century, body armour had largely died out in many armies, especially in Western Europe, although during the War of the Spanish Succession some such as the Dutch and the British experimented with the cuirass for a while. In central Europe the cuirass was retained longer, as was the metal helmet, partly because they could expect to face the Ottomans, who's cavalry was both more numerous and more mobile, even though it gave them something of an old-fashioned look by the early 1700s. Several of the many small German states got involved in wider wars of the period such as the Great Northern War and the War of the Spanish Succession, often effectively hiring out infantry and squadrons of cavalry, who were paid for and supported by one of the major powers. Thus it was that cavalry from various minor German states could find themselves on some of the major battlefields of Europe…"


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