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Early 16th-century French gendarmes, with complete plate armour and heavy lances. Spanish Heavy Cavalry – Royal Armoury of Madrid, Spain. Heavy cavalry was a class of cavalry intended to deliver a battlefield charge and also to act as a tactical reserve; they are also often termed shock cavalry. [1]
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Heavy cavalry, such as Byzantine cataphracts and knights of...
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Cuirassiers ( / ˌkwɪrəˈsɪər /; from French cuirassier [1] [kɥiʁasje]) were cavalry equipped with a cuirass, sword, and pistols. Cuirassiers first appeared in mid-to-late 16th century Europe as a result of armoured cavalry, such as men-at-arms and demi-lancers discarding their lances and adopting pistols as their primary weapon. [2] .
La caballería pesada o catafracto fue una clase de caballería cuya función principal consistía en entrar en combate directo con las fuerzas enemigas ( tropas de choque ).
Heavy cavalry, such as Byzantine cataphracts and knights of the Early Middle Ages in Europe, were used as shock troops, charging the main body of the enemy at the height of a battle; in many cases their actions decided the outcome of the battle, hence the later term battle cavalry.
The Polish hussars ( / həˈzɑːrs /; Polish: husaria [xuˈsarja] ), [a] alternatively known as the winged hussars, were a heavy cavalry formation active in Poland and in the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth from 1503 to 1702. Their epithet is derived from large rear wings, which were intended to demoralize the enemy during a charge.
A cataphract was a form of armored heavy cavalry that originated in Persia and was fielded in ancient warfare throughout Eurasia and Northern Africa. Historically, the cataphract was a very heavily armored horseman, with both the rider and mount almost completely covered in scale armor, and typically wielding a kontos as his primary ...
By the 1550s, advances in firearm technology dictated that a body of 50 light cavalry armed with an arquebus be attached to each gendarme company. [3] The heavy cavalrymen in these companies were almost invariably men of gentle birth, who would have served as knights in earlier feudal forces.
