VIVE LA PALONGE
"It is chivalry that has no equal in the world;
without seeing it with your own eyes,
its vigor and splendor is impossible to imagine."
- Cosimo Brunetti, 1676
The hussars as we know them first show up on the scene in the early 16th century as part of a
hammer-smashing army of stone-cold motherfuckers under the Hungarian King Stefan Bathory
Come chill, my friends. All the rest of the pictures are just Hussars, info will be up here.
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""We saw it…. the hussars let loose their horses. God, what power! They ran through the smoke and the sound was like that of a thousand blacksmiths beating with a thousand hammers. We saw it…. Jezus Maria! The elite's lances bent forward like stalks of rye, driven by a great storm, bent on glory! The fire of the guns before them glitters! They rush on to the Swedes! They crash into the Swedish riters…. Overwhelm them! They crash into the second regiment - Overwhelmed! Resistance collapses, dissolves, they move forward as easily as if they were parading on a grand boulevard. They sliced without effort through the whole army already! Next target: the regiment of horse guards, where stands the Swede King Carol. And the guard already wavers!"Russian cavalry used cold steel in the charge, and although it fought with eagerness and passion, it used practically no formation. It hit in loose groups and became easily disorganized. Russian protective armor was weak, which caused additional losses. The hussars did not have great problems with them, even their elite units armed with the lance (‘zaczepnym’) and defensive armor.The Turks had the highest traditions in Cavalry, and used excellent horses what were valued highly in Poland. it was trained well and it used protective armor also (though not the whole cavalry, just some formations).
