Summary: The Importance Of Horses In World War One

August 1914, World War One, horses were introduced to one of most traumatic events in history. Just the same as the deployment of men, almost the same amount of horses were taken from there homes to help fight for there country. Horses in World War One were used to carry men into battle, as well as carry extremely heavy artillery for miles and miles with no brakes or through mud that could be so deep it was up to there shoulders. More then 8 million horses, not to count the donkeys and mules, were dead by the time the war had ended in 1917. Therefore horses are vital to the government because of there leadership like qualities as well as there incredible strength.

Horses are used for many different things throughout the government. The demand for horses was first needed in ancient warfare. One of the uses that was fairly important was when the front line men realized that they would have a …show more content…
The first known way that horses were trained was between 4000 and 3000 BC. These horses were to pull wagons with worries in them to battle; accept these horses did not fight they were only there to get the worriers to and from battle. Further on in history horses were being trained in an extremely cruel way. One of the tactics they used was to make the horses deaf. In the process of doing this they would scream in there ears or make small explosives go off near by just close enough to the point that they wouldn't be hurt or killed, even though this was not the case for all of the horses. As time passes people begin to notice that treating these innocent animals with such disrespect is not right. So they now would train there horses with just setting alarms off, not very loud ones, and making them walk through the sound with smoke blocking there sight. Although this doesn't seem pleasant it is much more humane than how they were training them