Wellington's Heavy Cavalry

by Bryan Forsten and Bryan Fosten

Wellington considered the British cavalry to be technically inferior to the French, although paradoxically he also said that one British squadron would be a match for two of the enemy. His main concern was that although the British cavalry lacked neither courage nor dash, they lacked discipline, in that they invariably failed to rally and re-form once they had charged home. At Waterloo, although the cavalry generally performed superbly well, the endemic...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0850454743
• ISBN13: 9780850454741
• Release Date: November 1982
• Publisher: Osprey Publishing (UK)
• Length: 48 Pages
• Weight: 0.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.1" x 7.2" x 9.8"