Remembering History’s Last Major Cavalry Charge

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Remembering History’s Last Major Cavalry Charge
Jesse Greenspan

 

With sabers drawn, about 600 Italian cavalrymen yelled out their traditional battle cry of “Savoia!” and galloped headlong toward 2,000 Soviet foot soldiers armed with machine guns and mortars. On August 23, 1942 (some sources say August 24), the cavalrymen—part of the Axis invasion of the Soviet Union during World War II— were attempting to close a gap that had opened up between the Italian and German armies along the Don River. It was to be the end of an era. Though experts believe that smaller and less well-documented cavalry charges likely occurred later on in World War II and possibly as late as the 1970s in Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe), they generally describe this as the last major charge in history.

https://www.history.com/news/the-last-major-cavalry-charge-70-years-ago

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Remembering History’s Last Major Cavalry Charge
Jesse Greenspan

But even with such modern weaponry available, a horse still comes in handy every now and then. In 2001, for example, U.S. forces in Afghanistan were photographed riding steeds over rugged terrain alongside their Northern Alliance allies.

That was a special case in that it was still a guerilla war at that time with no armor or heavy machine guns,and it was mountainous terrain. It was either rush the enemy quickly by horseback and reduce your time under fire,or advance of foot and get slowly shot to pieces.