"Peninsular War - Spanish Mules and Oxen" Topic

Just a quick post to show off my Spanish Peninsular draught animals to get 'The Gun' to Ávila while avoiding the French.

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Fantastic, oxen seem to be more used in the Peninsula to move even guns than rest of Europe.

Mules we expects as from Spain, Portugal or the ACW but the surprise for me was how many such critters were used just south of Brussels in 1815. Many a dodgy horse in plastic 20mm is transformed by a set of ears to become a beast of burden.

Very cool. Ox teams look great – there's a kind of exoticism about them. Yes, oxen were more common as draft animals in Spain, where good horses were harder to obtain. But I've never quite known why. In medieval times, the Spanish armies always included knights and there were, for a long time, good quality light horse – Jinetes. Likewise the Moorish armies of the Andalusians and the Almohades etc had swarms of well mounted light horsemen. What happened in Spain after the Reconquista to change this?

Cheers,
John

So cool.

Thanks guys, I'll try and get them used in a game for another post.