Hussar

Description

The Polish Hussars :

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Tuz8QRg_WM&feature=share

Polish: Husaria, or Winged Hussars, were one of the main types of the cavalry in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth between the 16th and 18th centuries. When this cavalry type was first introduced by South slavs and Hungarian mercenary horsemen at the beginning of the 16th century, they served as light cavalry banners in the Polish army; by the second half of the 16th century and after Stephen Báthory's reforms, hussars had been transformed into heavily armored shock cavalry. Until the reforms of the 1770s, the husaria banners were considered the elite of the Polish cavalry.

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Thank you Monika Kryzysowa for agreeing and sharing to me a beautiful photo that used to paint this image:

http://spiritussarmatus.tumblr.com/post/99826804073/knight-of-the-nation-polish-winged-hussar