I found this. I remember watching the series when I was kid.
The Republican Guards showing how the Imperial cavalerie would have done it.
https://youtu.be/cOl4piWh2eA
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I found this. I remember watching the series when I was kid.
The Republican Guards showing how the Imperial cavalerie would have done it.
https://youtu.be/cOl4piWh2eA
closed link on copyright issues.....sighQuote:
Originally Posted by Brenus
Try this one
https://youtu.be/9VG4dTZfxVY
Unfortunately the guy who put it on line found useful to put a stupid music which covers the buggles for marche, trot then charge...
Viewed from the front would be bloody disquieting methinks....
Easy to see why it might be hard to convince ground pounders that holding in the face of it was their best bet.Quote:
Originally Posted by Seamus Fermanagh
Keegan observed that this was one of the reasons the half-pike and the sword persisted as the battlefield weapons of sergeants and officers, respectively, for a century after musket/bayonet combo had become the dominant infantry weapon system employed.Quote:
Originally Posted by HopAlongBunny
They maintain usefulness as personal defense tools in a hand-to-hand encounter....and serve as great persuaders held sideways at the backs of your soldiers to stop those first few from edging out of line when the cavalry is coming at you (at least if the discipline is pretty solid to begin with).
I saw a docu-tainment show once where they put a guy and a camera down the field from the Strathcona's mounted troop and had them charge at him. The thumping of a hundred horse at the gallop was quite loud.Quote:
Originally Posted by HopAlongBunny
Imagine at least seeing the charge of the Scots Greys, as portrayed by that famous painting. Must have been a sight to watch from the English side.
The painting is inaccurate as all get out. Were it real, their would have been a 20 horse and rider pile up within the next minute or so. She took a lot of artistic license.Quote:
Originally Posted by edyzmedieval
Which painting?
Attachment 19611Quote:
Originally Posted by Montmorency
Fair enough, but the artistic license was enough to inspire to create a superb piece of artwork. :yes:Quote:
Originally Posted by Seamus Fermanagh
I actually read about the charge - the charge was not even a charge, because of the horrid terrain.
What's the current general view on Victor Hugo's portrayal of the doomed charge of the French heavies? I read somewhere that it originated with a lowly lieutenant who gesticulated excitedly at some British movement, leading to nearby horseman moving to see what he was talking about, and a domino effect resulting in an assumed command to advance. If the Scots Greys couldn't really charge because of the terrain, would it have been any different for the French cuirassiers?Quote:
Originally Posted by edyzmedieval