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Here's What You Need To Remember: Cavalry is now relegated to parades and other ceremonial duties, but how it disappeared should still be viewed as a portent to what could come in the future. While ...

The Scottish cavalry flew toward Napoleon’s Grande Armee at Waterloo two centuries ago Thursday in a galloping charge immortalized in paint, poetry and film. Now the Royal Scots Greys will once again ...

Cavalry had been a crucial part of armies since antiquity, beginning soon after the domestication of the horse. The Greeks and Romans were skilled horsemen centuries before the invention of the ...