{"id":45387,"date":"2018-10-20T04:00:07","date_gmt":"2018-10-20T08:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=45387"},"modified":"2018-10-19T22:24:53","modified_gmt":"2018-10-20T02:24:53","slug":"cavalry-was-a-stupid-idea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2018\/10\/20\/cavalry-was-a-stupid-idea\/","title":{"rendered":"Cavalry was a stupid idea"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"853\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/1uUk5WGAydI\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Lindybeige<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Published on 28 Aug 2016<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Great Courses Plus free trial: <a href=\"http:\/\/ow.ly\/fA12302OFSt\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/ow.ly\/fA12302OFSt<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Riding a horse into battle is not a technique easy to adopt.  The first man to suggest it may have been laughed at.<\/p>\n<p>Support me on Patreon: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.patreon.com\/Lindybeige\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.patreon.com\/Lindybeige<\/a><\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>I wasn&#8217;t quite at my peak while making this one. I came back from abroad with a virus, and had spent the previous day coughing.<\/p>\n<p>Lindybeige: a channel of archaeology, ancient and medieval warfare, rants, swing dance, travelogues, evolution, and whatever else occurs to me to make.<\/p>\n<p>\u25bc Follow me&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Twitter: <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Lindybeige\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/twitter.com\/Lindybeige<\/a>  I may have some drivel to contribute to the Twittersphere, plus you get notice of uploads.<\/p>\n<p>website: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.LloydianAspects.co.uk\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">www.LloydianAspects.co.uk<\/a> <\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lindybeige Published on 28 Aug 2016 The Great Courses Plus free trial: http:\/\/ow.ly\/fA12302OFSt Riding a horse into battle is not a technique easy to adopt. The first man to suggest it may have been laughed at. Support me on Patreon: https:\/\/www.patreon.com\/Lindybeige A long ramble by me. Possibly I should have done one video about Celtic\/Roman [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35193,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,5,15],"tags":[288,1102],"class_list":["post-45387","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history","category-military","category-technology","tag-archaeology","tag-cavalry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/favicon.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-bO3","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45387","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45387"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45387\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45388,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45387\/revisions\/45388"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45387"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45387"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}