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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]
Three types of cavalry became common: light cavalry, whose riders, armed with javelins, could harass and skirmish; heavy cavalry, whose troopers, using lances, had the ability to close in on their opponents; and finally those whose equipment allowed them to fight either on horseback or foot.
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 ).
Air cavalry, originally sky cavalry is a United States Army term that refers to helicopter-equipped units that perform reconnaissance, screening, security, and economy-of-force missions.
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 ( lance ) as ...
military force. Learn about this topic in these articles: military tactics. In tactics: Light and heavy cavalry. The next development following chariots was cavalry, which took two forms.
The Pattern 1796 heavy cavalry sword was the sword used by the British heavy cavalry (Lifeguards, Royal Horse Guards, Dragoon Guards and Dragoons), and King's German Legion Dragoons, through most of the period of the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars.