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October 20, 2018

Cavalry was a stupid idea

Filed under: History, Military, Technology — Tags: , — Nicholas @ 04:00

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Published on 28 Aug 2016

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Riding a horse into battle is not a technique easy to adopt. The first man to suggest it may have been laughed at.

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A long ramble by me. Possibly I should have done one video about Celtic/Roman four-pommelled saddles, and a separate one about how cavalry took a long time to develop.

I wasn’t quite at my peak while making this one. I came back from abroad with a virus, and had spent the previous day coughing.

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