I'm always facinated to hear about tactics, equipment and units used later or earlier then you'd generally expect.
Pic is French Cuirassiers in 1914, the French quickly learned that WWI was a new kind of war
Polish cavalry used in WW2, equipped with spears
>>1384982
>spears
>>1384966
Germans had cuirassiers as well you dumb memester.
>>1384966
Everyone used cavalry in the first months of ww1, they were used for the duration on the eastern front
The Kenyan government confiscated the guns of the Kalenjin and Maasai in the run-up to the presidential election because of fears of violence. They ended up using bows and arrows instead. I remember reading an interview with a local bowyer who was actually really excited because he'd been stuck making fowling bows and now had the opportunity to make high-poundage warbows.
During the 1798 rebellion, the United Irishmen mostly used pikes
>>1384990
>sabres aren't swords
>>1385035
>When you're so fucking pissed, you're literally going medieval on they asses.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dragoons_of_Angola
The Portuguese wre using dragoons as late as 1975 as a specialty unit to deal with guerillas
>>1385078
thats not TERRIBLY anachronistic.
>>1385047
>The same day, German war correspondents were brought to the battlefield, together with two journalists from Italy. They were shown the corpses of Polish cavalrymen and their horses, as well as German tanks that had arrived at the place after the battle. One of the Italian correspondents, Indro Montanelli, sent home an article, in which he described the bravery and heroism of Polish soldiers, who charged German tanks with sabres and lances. Although such a charge did not happen and there were no tanks used during the combat, the myth was used by German propaganda during the war. German propaganda magazine Die Wehrmacht reported on 13 September that the Poles had gravely underestimated German weapons, as Polish propaganda had suggested that German armored vehicles were only covered with sheet metal, leading to a grotesque attack. After the end of World War II, it was still used by Soviet propaganda as an example of stupidity of pre-war Polish commanders, who allegedly did not prepare their country for the war and instead wasted the blood of their soldiers. As late as the 1990s, this myth was still taught in history classes in American high schools and colleges.
>George Parada states: "Contrary to German propaganda, Polish cavalry brigades never charged tanks with their sabres or lances as they were equipped with anti-tank weapons such as 37 mm Bofors wz.36 (exported to UK as Ordnance Q.F. 37 mm Mk I) antitank guns, that could penetrate 26 mm of armour at 600 m at 30 degrees. The cavalry brigades were in the process of being reorganized into motorized brigades."
>>1385078
That was pretty common for militias then
