I found that one on some of the Yahoo groups. Think its mentioned in several posts.


http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Ancien...cs/message/942

In a biography of Bayard, “the
knight without reproach”, by his faithful servant [the faithful servant
didn’t give his name but his biography is accepted as having been
written by someone very close to Bayard] he wrote of an event which
occurred at Navarra (I believe). French gendarmes charged Swiss pikemen
(there doesn’t come a more steady infantry than Swiss pikes). Bayard
charged clear through the pike unit. However, part way through Bayard
could no longer control his mount. It had taken the bit and couldn’t be
controlled. Having ridden clear through one pike unit, the horse’s
fierceness was so great that it about to charge another pike unit. Not
willing to take on the Swiss again with a horse he couldn’t control,
Bayard slipped from the saddle and made his way back to the French.

Bayard’s horse not only attacked the Swiss pike unit, drove clear
through the unit, but was so enraged that it was about to attack
another pike unit. After the battle, Bayard’s horse was left for dead
on the battlefield. It had two severe pike wounds in it’s flank and
more than 20 sword wounds on it’s head. However, in the morning, it was
found quietly grazing. After this, it hated swords. He would go after
any man holding a sword. The warhorse is weapon in itself.


Other excellent groups are:

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ancmed for ancient and medieval warfare.


http://groups.yahoo.com/group/REMPAS for Renaissance warfare.

Think you have to register to read posts there. Just remember to set Message Delivery to No Email and do the reading on web. Otherwise you might end up getting loads of emails.


CBR