It sounds like madness—horses against tanks. But what really happened in 1939 is far more complex than the myth.

Deputy Minister of National Defence Paweł Bejda and the Armament Agency announced the latest delivery of military equipment ...

Uniformed men with graying mustaches, epaulets and sabers presented ... the old tale of how an exiled Polish nobleman came to be the so-called Father of American Cavalry and only the seventh ...

C. Anthony Burke of McLean is an author who has long been interested in the development of the World War I Cavalry sword, known as "the Patton saber." It was designed to use as a weapon rather ...

During the invasion of Poland in 1939, it is said that Polish cavalry units charged at the German tanks with sabres and lances, in a desperate and foolhardy attempt to take on the metal beasts.

Ramsey, despite being outnumbered and outgunned, ordered a charge against them at a gallop, firing their Colt 1911s (they had not used sabers ... Polish cavalrymen in 1945. Credit: Public Domain / ...

See what you think of the Polish Uhlan from ... up charging about with his sabre drawn. This is certainly a rare scene considering the time period but early on during World War II there would still ...

Hussars, alternatively known as the winged hussars, were a heavy cavalry formation active in Poland and in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth from 1503 to 1702. Their epithet is derived from large ...

The CSC was a critical logistical node for the convoys from the 2nd Cavalry Regiment as they conducted ... to training sites in Lithuania in support of the Saber Strike 24 exercise within the ...

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