Cavalry

A ditch, deep enough to hide the the base of the walls and protect them from enemy cannons, surrounded the entire fortress. A small trench filled with water and with a wooden palisade in the inner side ran along the bottom of the ditch. Reinhard knew that it had a technical name which he had read and forgotten when he was being trained as an officer, but he remembered that it was designed to slowdown the advance of enemy soldiers which were trying to reach the base of the walls. Anyway that…

Diomedes first order was to join the cavalry squad (known as the Black Knights), and follow any commands that his cousin gave him. No one cared that he was the son of Lord Akio, in the Murasaki province a man gains respects by what he does on the battle field and what they do in life. The Black…

Beersheba, a largely protected town 43 km from the Turkish fort of Gaza, was the scene of an incredible Australian historic charge by the 4th Light Horse Brigade on 31 October 1917. Beersheba was the right end of a defensive trench line that stretched all the way from Gaza on the Mediterranean coast. After two failed attempts to attack Gaza frontally it was decided to defeat it by attacking the Turkish defence line around Beersheba. The attack was launched at dawn on 31 October but by late…

Thanks to the ingenious use of the longbow in the Battle of Crecy, the English king, Edward III, and his army were able to win the battle with under 100 casualties while the French having over 10,000(Kops). Because of the outcome of the war, the longbow earned the name “The Medieval Machine Gun” (Kagay). Many of the tactics used during the Battle of Crecy by the English army were considered to be great breakthroughs in warfare and were the basis of some of the tactics used in modern warfare.…

Jousting is the medieval sport where fully armored knights rode on horseback across fields with lances and other weapons pointed at each other. Jousting was a very sophisticated sport and it tested the courage and the combat skill of knights. It was an athletic contest to the death (before 14th century). This sport is still played today, however, it is not as prominent as it was during the Middle Ages. Very popular in Medieval Times, jousting tournaments spread quickly all over Europe from its…

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This essay will be discussing the armor and weaponry used in medieval England. Also it will consist of how did real-life warriors usually prepare for battles. In the legend, “Sir Gawain and the Green Knight” they used weapons that will be talked about in this essay. According to medievalwarfare.info, in the medieval England some of the weapons that were used were, bladed hand weapons, blunt hand weapons, polearms, ranged weapons, and other siege weapons. A bladed hand weapon that was common…

Swords The swords varied widely in terms of weight and size, but the pattern of the classical medieval sword remained partly unchanged. The average weight was around three pounds, with there being two general classes of swords - War sword and two hand sword. Warriors were trained from a young age. There are three main elements of a typical medieval sword; the blade, the crossguard, and the pommel. The pommel was simply a knob of metal at the end of the hilt but there was some shaping to these…

The chain mail also incorporated mittens, which had chain mail on the back of them and leather gloves on the inside to better hold reins and weapons, and a hood with an attached ventail to protect the throat (Hanley). The surcoat was placed on top of all the armor and was a useful way to display the knight’s coat of arms, which was helpful since it was hard to distinguish knights when they put their helmets on (Hanley). The sword belt, which allowed the knight to carry his sword without actually…

the works become more abstract in their formatting. Walt Whitman’s poem, being the oldest, has the most words and standard format for poetry. Zed Ander’s poem, being the most recent, has less words and an abstract view on poetry. Walt Whitman’s “Cavalry Crossing a Ford” portrays a series of images and asks the reader to “behold” the scene as if the reader was in the poem. The most unique aspect of the poem relates to the perspective from which the scene is displayed. There is a type of…