Napoleonic Heavy Cavalry & Dragoon Tactics (Osprey Elite 188)

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Автор: Philip Haythornthwaite

Название: Napoleonic Heavy Cavalry & Dragoon Tactics

Издательство: Osprey Publishing

Серия: Osprey Elite 188

ISBN: 1849087105

Год: 2013

Формат: PDF (e-book)

Страниц: 66

Размер: 4 Mb

Язык: English

During the Napoleonic Wars the supreme battlefield shock weapon was the heavy cavalry – the French cuirassiers, and their British, Austrian, Prussian and Russian counterparts. Big men mounted on big horses, the heavy cavalry were armed with swords nearly a metre long, used for slashing or thrusting at their opponents; many wore steel armour, a practice revived by Napoleon. They were tasked with smashing a hole in the enemy’s line of battle, with exploiting a weakness, or with turning a flank.