Hussar

Polish Winged Hussar, painting by Aleksander Orłowski

Hussar of the Magdeburg Hussar Commando (1763, drawing from Richard Knötel, Uniformenkunde, 1893)

Portrait of Russian hussar Evgraf Davydov by Kiprensky (1810s)

French 4th Hussar at the Battle of Friedland, 14 June 1807. "Vive l'Empereur!" by Édouard Detaille, 1891

Cornet Henry John Wilkin, a British Hussar from the Crimean War

Chilean founding father Manuel Rodríguez, wearing the Húsares de la Muerte uniform

Confederate hussar from the 1st Virginia

An officer of the British 11th Hussars (PAO) in the full dress of 1856, including dolman, pelisse, busby and sabretache

Hussars of the King's German Legion in 1813, all armed with the 1796 sabre

Hungarian hussars in battle during the Hungarian Revolution of 1848

Gendarmes of Mecklenburg-Strelitz in 1900

A Danish Guard Hussar in mounted parade uniform, including the red pelisse, sabretache and shabraque

An ERC 90 Sagaie of the 1st Parachute Hussar Regiment of the French Army in Côte d'Ivoire in 2003

Alfonso XIII of Spain wearing a Regiment no. 4 "Pavia Húsares (Hussars) uniform, 1912

Member of a class of light cavalry, originating in Central Europe during the 15th and 16th centuries.

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Shock troops

Attack.

United States Army preparing for air assault training, 2015

Polish Winged Hussars, elite heavy cavalry used by the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth, have also been described as shock troops.

Military Frontier

Borderland of the Habsburg monarchy and later the Austrian and Austro-Hungarian Empire.

King Matthias Corvinus's anti-Ottoman defense system in 1500

Migration of the Serbs (Seoba Srba), by Paja Jovanović, portrays Serbian Patriarch Arsenije III Čarnojević, surrounded by soldiers, flocks of sheep and women with babies, leading some 36,000 families from his seat in Peć, to what is now Vojvodina in 1690, after the failure of a Serb revolt.

Map of the Military Frontier in the middle of the 19th century (marked with a red outline)

Map of Military Frontier sections in Syrmia, Bačka, and Pomorišje in 1699-1718

Map of Military Frontier sections in Syrmia, Bačka, and Pomorišje in 1718-1744

Map of Military Frontier sections in Syrmia, Bačka, and Pomorišje in 1744-1750

Map of Military Frontier sections in Syrmia, Bačka, and Banat in 1751-1873

Map of Military Frontier sections in Banat, Syrmia, and Bačka (18th-19th century)

Map of Military Frontier sections in Banat, Syrmia, and Bačka in 1849 - Banatian and Slavonian military frontier and Schajkasch Battalion

Map of the Slavonian Military Frontier in 1849

Map of the Croatian Military Frontier in 1868

But, they did lead to development of the Pandur infantry and the Hussar cavalry.

Light cavalry

Light cavalry comprises lightly armed and armored cavalry troops mounted on fast horses, as opposed to heavy cavalry, where the mounted riders (and sometimes the warhorses) were heavily armored.

The famous Charge of the Light Brigade, in the Battle of Balaclava in 1854 (painted by William Simpson in 1855)

Mongol soldier on horseback, preparing a mounted archery shot

European examples of light cavalry included stradiots, hobelars, hussars, chasseurs à cheval, cossacks, chevau-légers, uhlans, and some dragoons.

Cavalry

Historically, cavalry (from the French word cavalerie, itself derived from "cheval" meaning "horse") are soldiers or warriors who fight mounted on horseback.

French 4th Hussars at the Battle of Friedland, 1807

A trumpeter of the Representative Cavalry Squadron in the Polish Army

Parthian horseman, now on display at the Palazzo Madama, Turin

Warrior's departure; an Athenian amphora dated 550–540 BC

Tombstone of a Roman auxiliary trooper from Cologne, Germany. Second half of the first century AD

Reenactor as a Roman auxiliary cavalryman

A bas-relief of a soldier and horse with saddle and stirrups, from the tomb of Chinese Emperor Taizong of Tang (r 626–649), c 650

The Qianlong Emperor in ceremonial armor on horseback, painted by Giuseppe Castiglione, dated 1739 or 1758

A mounted samurai with bow and arrows, wearing a horned helmet. Circa 1878

In the Battle of Ichi-no-Tani, Japanese cavalry moving down a mountain-side

Manuscript illustration of the Battle of Kurukshetra

Coin of Chandragupta II or Vikramaditya, one of the most powerful emperors of the Gupta empire during times referred to as the Golden Age of India

Akbar leads the Mughal Army during a campaign

Horse-mounted Normans charging in the Bayeux Tapestry, 11th century

A 13th-century depiction of a riding horse. Note resemblance to the modern Paso Fino

A Hussite war wagon: it enabled peasants to defeat knights

A Moroccan with his Arabian horse along the Barbary coast

Kanem-Bu warriors armed with spears in the retinue of a mounted war chief. The Earth and Its Inhabitants, 1892

Knighted cavalry and noblemen, painting by Jan van Eyck (c. 1390–1441)

Cavalry charge at Eylau, painted by Jean-Antoine-Siméon Fort

British infantry formed into anti-cavalry squares at the Battle of Quatre Bras

The charge of the Venezuelan First Division's cavalry at the Battle of Carabobo

"The Thin Red Line" at the Battle of Balaclava, where the 93rd Regiment held off Russian Cavalry

Monument to the Spanish Regiment of light cavalry of Alcántara

The charge of the 21st Lancers at Omdurman

19th Lancers near Mametz during the Battle of the Somme, 15 July 1916

Union Cavalry capture Confederate guns at Culpepper

Italian cavalry officers practice their horsemanship in 1904 outside Rome

German cavalryman in September 1914, German South-West Africa

Dead German cavalry horses after the Battle of Halen - where the Belgian cavalry, fighting dismounted, decimated their still mounted German counterparts

A British cavalry trooper in marching order (1914–1918)

German dragoons, armed with lances, after the capture of Warsaw, August 1915

Lithuanian lancers training in the 1930s

Turkish cavalry during mopping‐up operation 1922

Polish uhlan with wz. 35 anti-tank rifle. Military instruction published in Warsaw in 1938

A German cavalry patrol in May 1940, during the Battle of France

Mongolian cavalry in the Khalkhin Gol (1939)

U.S. Special Forces and Combat Controllers on horseback with the Northern Alliance of Afghanistan, which frequently used horses as military transport

Italian Army regiment “Lancieri di Montebello” (8th) on public duties in Rome 2019

Horse-mounted color guard from Marine Corps Logistics Base Barstow

A cavalryman of Hakkapeliitta, the Finnish cavalry of Thirty Years' War, featured on a 1940 Finnish stamp

Mongol mounted archer of Genghis Khan late 12th century.

Tatar vanguard in Eastern Europe 13th–14th centuries.

Manikin of a Safavid Qizilbash, showing characteristic red cap (Sa'dabad Palace, Tehran).

An Ottoman Mamluk cavalryman from 1810, armed with a pistol.

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Washington National Guard cavalry pictured in Tacoma, Washington in 1907.

French cuirassiers, wearing breastplates and helmets, parade through Paris on the way to battle, August 1914.

Spanish light cavalry (cazadores) during the Rif War 1921.

Polish PZL W-3 Sokół of the 66 Air Cavalry Squadron, 25th Aeromobile Cavalry Brigade.

The mounted President's Bodyguard of the Indian Army

French Republican Guard – 2008 Bastille Day military parade

The President's Body Guard of the Pakistan Army, 2006.

Troopers of the Blues and Royals on mounted duty in Whitehall, London

Turkmenistan ceremonial cavalry in the Independence Day parade 2011

Representative Cavalry Squadron of the Polish Army on military parade in Warsaw, 2006

An individual soldier in the cavalry is known by a number of designations depending on era and tactics, such as cavalryman, horseman, trooper, cataphract, knight, hussar, uhlan, mamluk, cuirassier, lancer, dragoon, or horse archer.

Sabre

Type of backsword with a curved blade associated with the light cavalry of the early modern and Napoleonic periods.

The Sword Dance (1890) by Paja Jovanović

A British Hussar general with a scabbarded kilij of Turkish manufacture (1812)

The briquet, typical infantry sabre of the Napoleonic Wars

French Navy sabre of the 19th century, boarding sabre

Lieutenant Colonel Teófilo Marxuach's M1902 officer's sabre and scabbard at the National Historic Trust site at Castillo San Cristóbal in San Juan, Puerto Rico

Originally associated with Central European cavalry such as the hussars, the sabre became widespread in Western Europe during the Thirty Years' War.

Dragoon

Dragoons were originally a class of mounted infantry, who used horses for mobility, but dismounted to fight on foot.

Cartoon of a French dragoon intimidating a Huguenot in the dragonnades

French dragoon of the Volontaires de Saxe regiment, mid-18th century

French Dragoons with captured Prussian flag at the Battle of Jena

Baden dragoon in a World War I monument at Karlsruhe.
While almost an anachronism after the early stages of that war, German dragoons did see continuing service on the Eastern Front until 1917. Note the functional Stahlhelm helmet.

Memorial stained glass window at Royal Military College of Canada of 2770 LCol KL Jefferson, a member of the 12th Manitoba Dragoons, an armoured regiment of the Canadian Army and Canadian Forces

United States dragoons charging Mexican infantry at the Battle of Resaca de la Palma in May 1846.

Their original responsibilities for scouting and picket duty had passed to hussars and similar light cavalry corps in the French, Austrian, Prussian, and other armies.

Kingdom of Hungary

Monarchy in Central Europe that existed for nearly a millennium, from the Middle Ages into the 20th century.

The Kingdom of Hungary (dark green) and Kingdom of Croatia-Slavonia (light green) within Austria-Hungary in 1914

The Holy Crown of Hungary along with other regalia

Hungary (including Croatia) in 1190, during the rule of Béla III

The Meeting of Ladislaus IV and Rudolf I during the Battle on the Marchfeld, painting by Mór Than (1873)

Local autonomies (including Cumania, Székely Land and Transylvanian Saxons) in the late 13th century

The administrative divisions of medieval Hungary

Louis I of Hungary on Heroes Square, Budapest

Matthias Corvinus as depicted in Johannes de Thurocz's Chronica Hungarorum

The Battle of Buda (1686): Hungarians and the Holy League (1684) reconquering Buda

The Battle of Kuruc-Labanc, kuruc preparing to attack traveling coach and riders, c. 1705

Counties of the Kingdom of Hungary around 1880

Distribution of Hungarians in the Kingdom of Hungary and the Kingdom of Croatia-Slavonia (1890)

Ethnic map of the Hungary proper publicized by the Hungarian Trianon delegation. Regions with population density below 20 persons/km2 are left blank and the corresponding population is represented in the nearest region with population density above that limit. The vibrant, dominant red color was deliberately chosen to mark Hungarians while the light purple color of the Romanians, who were already the majority in the whole of Transylvania back then, is shadow-like.

Coronation of Francis Joseph I and Elisabeth at Matthias Church, Buda, 8 June 1867

The Treaty of Trianon: Hungary lost 72% of its territory, its sea access, half of its 10 biggest cities and all of its precious metal mines; 3,425,000 ethnic Hungarians found themselves separated from their motherland.

Miklós Horthy was regent of Hungary from 1920 to 1944

István Bethlen, the Prime Minister of Hungary

The Kingdom of Hungary in 1942, during World War II

In the 15th century, the Black Army of Hungary was a modern mercenary army, with the Hussars the most skilled troops of the Hungarian cavalry.

Shako

Tall, cylindrical military cap, usually with a visor, and sometimes tapered at the top.

Members of the Hungarian Károlyi Hussar Regiment wearing shakos, 1849.

Portrait of George Anthony Legh Keck holding a shako

Shako of the French Royal Guard as worn from 1816 to 1830.

Swedish shako m/1815 of the Kronoberg Regiment, worn from 1815 to 1831.

Depiction of Prince Albert demonstrating the Albert shako for the British Army

Photo portrait of Alfred Redl, an Austrian military officer, in a shako, 1907.

Members of the UCLA Bruin Marching Band wearing shakos.

Originally these hats were part of the clothing commonly worn by shepherds, before being added to the uniform of the Hungarian hussar in the early 18th century.