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Lancer is an American Western television series that aired Tuesdays at 7:30 pm (Eastern Time) on CBS from September 24, 1968, to June 23, 1970. The series stars Andrew Duggan as a father with two half-brother sons, played by James Stacy and Wayne Maunder .
Polish Lancer (left) and Austrian Cuirassier (right) in a mêlée. A lancer was a type of cavalryman who fought with a lance.Lances were used for mounted warfare in Assyria as early as 700 BC and subsequently by India, Egypt, China, Persia, Greece, and Rome. [1]
Locally recruited lancer regiments with this designation were later also used by the Russian, [4] Prussian, [5] and Austrian [6] armies. The long reach of the lance made them an effective shock force against dispersed infantry. Carabinier: A mounted soldier armed primarily with a carbine, in addition to a saber and pistols. The carbine was ...
Historical reenactment of a Sasanian-era cataphract, complete with a full set of scale armour for the horse. The rider is covered by extensive mail armour.. A cataphract was a form of armoured heavy cavalry that originated in Persia and was fielded in ancient warfare throughout Eurasia and Northern Africa.
Uhlan (/ ˈ uː l ɑː n, ˈ j uː l ən /; French: uhlan; German: Ulan; [1] Lithuanian: ulonas; Polish: ułan) is a type of light cavalry, primarily armed with a lance. [2] The uhlans started as Lithuanian irregular cavalry, [3] that were later also adopted by other countries during the 18th century, including Poland, France, Russia, Prussia ...
In the military of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth, (until the 1775 AD reforms) companion was usually a noble who served in the Army for a period of time, usually less than 5 years, as a horseman with his mounted retainers (cavalry) and free servants (hussars, cossack – Armoured companion, Petyhorcy, Hajduk), or with none or one retainer and very few free servants (light cavalry e.g ...
"Demi-lancer" was a term used in 16th-century military parlance, especially in England, to designate cavalrymen mounted on unarmoured horses, armed with a slightly lighter version of the heavy lance of a man-at-arms and wearing three-quarter or half-armour, in contrast to the full plate armour of the man-at-arms or gendarme, who rode barded mounts.
[1] [2] The lance is described by Kruszyński (2021) as measuring 3.2 metres (10 ft 6 in) but by Larson and Yallop (2017) as measuring 10 feet 3 + 1 ⁄ 2 inches (3.137 m), both sources agree that the lance weighed 2.12 kilograms (4 lb 11 oz). [2] [1] There is a brass handle, lined with cloth, at the mid-point of the lance. One third from the ...