By Bryan Fosten
Wellington thought of the British cavalry to be technically not so good as the French, even if sarcastically he additionally acknowledged that one British squadron will be a fit for 2 of the enemy. His major situation was once that even if the British cavalry lacked neither braveness nor sprint, they lacked self-discipline, in that they perpetually did not rally and re-form after they had charged domestic. At Waterloo, even if the cavalry regularly played fantastically good, the endemic faults which Wellington had already pointed out have been repeated greater than as soon as, leading to the decimation of a number of high quality regiments. Bryan Fosten explores the heritage, business enterprise and uniforms of Wellington's Heavy Cavalry.
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