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1 day ago · Historically, cavalry (from the French word cavalerie, itself derived from cheval meaning "horse") are groups of soldiers or warriors who fight mounted on horseback.Until the 20th century, cavalry were the most mobile of the combat arms, operating as light cavalry in the roles of reconnaissance, screening, and skirmishing, or as heavy cavalry for decisive economy of force and shock attacks.
- Light Cavalry
Mongol soldier on horseback, preparing a mounted archery...
- 2nd Armored Cavalry Regiment
The 2nd Cavalry Regiment, also known as the Second Dragoons,...
- Polish Hussars
The Polish hussars (/ h ə ˈ z ɑːr s /; Polish: husaria), [a]...
- Horse Archers
Mounted archery in Tibet. Mounted archery is a form of...
- Light Cavalry
1 day ago · Ostsiedlung (German pronunciation: [ˈɔstˌziːdlʊŋ], lit. ' East settlement ' ) is the term for the Early Medieval and High Medieval migration of ethnic Germans and Germanization of the areas populated by Slavic , Baltic and Finnic peoples; the most settled area was known as Germania Slavica .
1 day ago · Hussite forces in Bohemia developed war wagons – medieval horse-drawn wagons that doubled as wagon forts – around 1420 during the Hussite Wars. These heavy wagons were given protective sides with firing slits; their heavy firepower came from either a cannon or from a force of hand-gunners and crossbowmen , supported by light cavalry and ...
1 day ago · Bratislava (/ ˌ b r æ t ɪ ˈ s l ɑː v ə / BRAT-iss-LAH-və, US also / ˌ b r ɑː t-/ BRAHT-, [3] [4] Slovak: [ˈbracislaʋa] ⓘ) (German: Pressburg or Preßburg, German pronunciation: [ˈpʁɛsbʊʁk] ⓘ; Hungarian: Pozsony), is the capital and largest city of Slovakia and the fourth largest of all cities on the River Danube.
1 day ago · In the upper left is the silver on black common chalice of the Protestant Hussite colonists, who began to settle on the Rixdorf lot in the year 1737 and eventually built their own village, which as Böhmisch-Rixdorf was granted its own administration in 1797, before both Rixdorf villages were united on 1 January 1874.
