Light-Horse, Dragoons, and Others
Light-Horse, Dragoons, and Others
Shifting from horsemen and the military application of horsemanship to horse soldiers and cavalry theory and practice, the lengthy Chapter 3, "Light-Horse, Dragoons, and Others," traces the rise and fall of horse cavalry over the "long nineteenth century" (Napoleonic Wars through Great War of 1914-18), mainly in Great Britain and the United States, using period treatises and histories on military horsemanship and cavalry tactics, and ending with Great War postmortems on the future of horse cavalry in mechanized warfare. It focuses mainly, though not exclusively, on an ongoing debate between traditionalists advocating mounted fighting with sabers and reformists advocating dismounted fighting with carbines or rifles, a debate culminating in the "arme blanche controversy" of the pre-Great War years.
Keywords: horse soldiers, cavalry, "long nineteenth century", tactics, heavy cavalry, light-horse, dragoons, horse artillery, doctrine, cavalary spirit
Kentucky Scholarship Online requires a subscription or purchase to access the full text of books within the service. Public users can however freely search the site and view the abstracts and keywords for each book and chapter.
Please, subscribe or login to access full text content.
If you think you should have access to this title, please contact your librarian.
To troubleshoot, please check our FAQs , and if you can't find the answer there, please contact us .
