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2. François Étienne de Kellermann - Wikipedia

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   He led his squadrons in a famous cavalry charge at the Battle of Quatre Bras on 16 June 1815. In this action, Kellermann was peremptorily ordered by Marshal Michel Ney to make a frontal charge on the Anglo-Allied line with the 770 troopers of Guiton's cuirassier brigade. Against cavalry doctrine, Kellermann called for an immediate gallop so ...

3. Category:Cavalry charges - Wikipedia

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   Pages in category "Cavalry charges" The following 29 pages are in this category, out of 29 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. ...

4. French cavalry during World War I - Wikipedia

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   Cavalry recruitment has traditionally been a little unusual: the proportion of cadres, i.e. officers and non-commissioned officers, is much higher than in the infantry; [note 2] [6] [7] a larger proportion of the workforce is made up of career soldiers; [note 3] and many descendants of the former nobility are to be found in the cavalry. [note 4 ...

5. Charge (warfare) - Wikipedia

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   British and American cavalry units also made similar cavalry charges during World War II. (See 26th Cavalry Regiment). The last successful cavalry charge of World War II was executed during the Battle of Schoenfeld on March 1, 1945. The Polish cavalry, fighting on the Soviet side, overwhelmed the German artillery position and allowed for ...

6. Battle of Schoenfeld - Wikipedia

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   The 1st "Warsaw" Independent Cavalry Brigade was then employed against the German position. Two squadrons (companies [2]) of cavalry supported by the elements of the horse--artillery company, having used a ravine to cover their approach to their infantry and tanker brothers-in-arms, charged through the smoke of burning tanks, [3] and achieved tactical surprise with a swift mounted assault that ...

7. Charge of the Savoia Cavalleria at Izbushensky - Wikipedia

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   The Charge of the "Savoia Cavalleria" at Izbushensky was a clash between the Italian cavalry Regiment "Savoia Cavalleria" (3rd) and the Soviet 812th Rifle Regiment (304th Rifle Division) that took place on August 24, 1942, near the hamlet (khutor) of Izbushensky (Избушенский), close to the junction between the Don and Khopyor rivers.

8. Cuban Liberation Army - Wikipedia

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   So effective was "The Major's Cavalry" that there was a small window of time between 1871 and 1873 where the Spanish only controlled four villages in all of Camagüey. [11] Perhaps one of the most famous cavalry charges of the Ten Years' War was the Rescue of Sanguily. Thirty-five riders, including Ignacio Agramonte and Henry Reeve, charged ...

9. Charge of Burkel - Wikipedia

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   The charge was celebrated in Belgium and the battle honour "Burkel" added to the standard of the 1st Guides. Van Strydonck, who had commanded the charge, was made a Baron and given the title "de Burkel" in recognition of his heroism. During the Second World War, he would serve as commander of the Free Belgian Forces in the United Kingdom.