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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]
The tunic was in a completely lancer-style fashion with the coloured lapels folded back in imitation of Napoleon's Polish Lancers. The men even wore a waist belt or sash with two dark blue stripes on a backing colour, and in the small of the back they had the "waterfall" of the lancers.
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 ...
[note 8] The lancer regiments all disappeared in 1871. [note 9] [14] After the French defeat of 1871 and the dissolution of the marching regiments, the French cavalry numbered 56 regiments in mainland France and seven in North Africa, including 12 cuirassiers, 20 dragoons, 10 hussars, 14 chasseurs, four chasseurs d'Afrique and three spahis.
The mounted lancer experienced a renaissance in the 19th century. This followed on the demise of the pike and of body armor during the early 18th century, with the reintroduction of lances coming from Hungary and Poland, having retained large formations of lance-armed cavalry when they had become more or less obsolescent elsewhere in Europe.
A third generation cavalryman from Rotherham, South Yorkshire, whose grandfather served in the Second World War, Trooper Adams rode MWH Northumberland, who won the cup in 2022.
After the Battle of Somosierra, Napoleon said that one Polish cavalryman was worth ten French soldiers. The chevaux-légers, French light cavalry units from the 16th century till 1815, were remodelled after the uhlans. Following the Treaty of Tilsit in 1807, lancer regiments designated as uhlans were reintroduced in the Prussian service ...
An individual soldier in the cavalry is known by a number of designations depending on era and tactics, such as a cavalryman, horseman, trooper, cataphract, knight, drabant, hussar, uhlan, mamluk, cuirassier, lancer, dragoon, samurai or horse archer.