Napoleonic Heavy Cavalry & Dragoon Tactics
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. Their classic manoeuvre was the charge; arrayed in close-order lines or columns, the heavy cavalry would begin their attack at the walk, building up to…
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Weitere Autoren: Hook, Adam (Illustr.)
- ISBN: 978-1-84908-710-0
- EAN: 9781849087100
- Produktnummer: 19356001
- Verlag: Osprey Pub Inc
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2013
- Seitenangabe: 64 S.
- Masse: H24.7 cm x B18.4 cm x D1.2 cm 209 g
- Reihenbandnummer: 188
- Gewicht: 209
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Philip Haythornthwaite, illustrated by Adam Hook
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