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... cavalry officers a single army has ever known ' ; and he won at least fifteen battles through the power of his cavalry in co - operation with mus- kets and artillery . On the lightly settled plains warfare was less deadlocked . During ...
... cavalry officers a single army has ever known ' ; and he won at least fifteen battles through the power of his cavalry in co - operation with mus- kets and artillery . On the lightly settled plains warfare was less deadlocked . During ...
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Geoffrey Blainey. cavalry . By 1900 the danger zone for cavalry was four or five times as long , and so for several minutes the approaching cavalry was exposed to the slaughter of rifles and machine- guns . As the number of rounds ...
Geoffrey Blainey. cavalry . By 1900 the danger zone for cavalry was four or five times as long , and so for several minutes the approaching cavalry was exposed to the slaughter of rifles and machine- guns . As the number of rounds ...
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Geoffrey Blainey. faith in the value of cavalry was revived in some quarters . Sir Douglas Haig's last despatch , written on the morning of the armistice in 1918 , described two British cavalry divisions pur- suing the Germans east of ...
Geoffrey Blainey. faith in the value of cavalry was revived in some quarters . Sir Douglas Haig's last despatch , written on the morning of the armistice in 1918 , described two British cavalry divisions pur- suing the Germans east of ...
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