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World War I (also known as the First World War and the Great War) was a global military conflict that embroiled most of the world's great powers, assembled in two opposing alliances: the Entente and the Central Powers. [1]
Oliver and Marietta were both equestrian competitors, riding at Badminton and Burghley, and his siblings have been very successful as well. [6] His paternal grandfather was Major-General "Billy" Fox-Pitt DSO MC a Dorset landowner who served in both World Wars and was a founding officer of the Welsh Guards .
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 27 December 2024. Use of horses during World War I (1914–1918) A Canadian cavalry recruitment poster The use of horses in World War I marked a transitional period in the evolution of armed conflict. Cavalry units were initially considered essential offensive elements of a military force, but over the ...
The Earl Haig Memorial is a bronze equestrian statue of the British Western Front commander Douglas Haig, 1st Earl Haig on Whitehall in Westminster, London. It was created by the sculptor Alfred Frank Hardiman and commissioned by Parliament in 1928. Eight years in the making, it aroused considerable controversy; the Field Marshal's riding ...
The first equestrian events at the Olympics were introduced in 1912, and through 1948, competition was restricted to active-duty officers on military horses. [226] Only after 1952, as mechanisation of warfare reduced the number of military riders, were civilian riders allowed to compete.
Kaiserreich: Legacy of the Weltkrieg is an alternate history total conversion mod for the grand strategy video game Hearts of Iron IV (2016). Set in an alternate timeline where the Central Powers won World War I, the politics of Kaiserreich is drastically different from the politics and borders present during the real World War II, with several nations impacted by civil wars and revolutions ...
Full-length and equestrian portraits of rulers and generals often showed them on the battlefield, but with the action in the distant background; a feature probably dating back to Titian's magisterial Equestrian Portrait of Charles V, which shows the emperor after his victory at the Battle of Mühlberg but with no other soldiers present ...
Millenniumi emlékmű (Millennium Monument) by Zala György at the Hősök tere (Heroes' Square) with seven equestrians of the seven Magyar tribes leaders: Árpád, Előd, Ond, Kond, Tas, Huba, and Töhötöm (Tétény), 1894-1929. Equestrian of King Stephen I by Alajos Stróbl in the Fischer Bastion, 1906. Equestrian of Prince Rákóczi Ferenc II.