Sublime

Soldiers of the First Battalion of the U.S. Army’s Seventh Cavalry Regiment poured out six at a time with weapons and supplies. Sixteen helicopters ferried hundreds of men from a staging area miles away to this instant base of operations, south of the Ia Drang River and not far from the Cambodian border. They called it LZ X-Ray. The operation in

Many experts have suggested that horses were not ridden in warfare until after about 1500–1000 BCE, but they failed to differentiate between mounted raiding, which probably is very old, and cavalry, which was invented in the Iron Age after about 1000 BCE.38 Eneolithic tribal herders probably rode horses in inter-clan raids before 4000 BCE, but they

The Maratha light cavalry, armed with spears, were remarkable for their extreme mobility and the ability to make sorties far behind Mughal lines.

Ever since cavalry had superseded war chariots on the battlefields, rulers had chosen to present themselves as heroic equestrians rather than charioteers, and horses had become the preferred means of transport for high-status men.

by the mid-fifteenth century, all Italian states were using another type of cavalry force known as the lanze spezzate. The name means broken lances and clearly the origins of such troops were individual cavalrymen who for various reasons had become detached from condottiere companies and their traditional lance formation, and had taken service

Horses were valuable and easily stolen, and riding increased the efficiency of stealing cattle. When American Indians in the North American Plains first began to ride, chronic horse-stealing raids soured relationships even between tribes that had been friendly. Riding also was an excellent way to retreat quickly; often the most dangerous part of