Warfare
Cavalry
Soldiers who fight mounted on horseback, the most mobile combat arm until the 20th century. On the Western Front, barbed wire, mud, machine guns and rapid-fire rifles proved deadly to mounted troops, and by early 1915 most cavalry units no longer saw front-line action.
Mentioned in
- Chapter I The Long Fuse §9 Armies and War Plans
- Chapter III The War of Movement §1 Mobilization: Trains, Horses and Millions§4 The Battle of the Frontiers and the Great Retreat§5 The First Battle of the Marne§6 Tannenberg and the Masurian Lakes§8 The Aisne, the Race to the Sea and First Ypres
- Chapter V The Year of Attrition §8 The Somme I: The First Day§9 The Somme II: From Bazentin to the Ancre
- Chapter VI The Year of Revolutions §2 America Enters, and the World Follows§4 Arras, Vimy and the Chemin des Dames§6 Russia's Summer: Kerensky's Offensive, the July Days and Kornilov§10 Baghdad, Beersheba and Jerusalem
- Chapter VII The Last Gamble Overview§6 Amiens: The Black Day of the German Army§8 The Collapse of Germany's Allies
- Chapter VIII The Reckoning and the Remaking §5 Red and White: Russia's Civil War and the Battle for Warsaw§8 Mandates, Sèvres and the Making of Turkey
- Chapter IX In the Trenches §9 Who the Soldiers Were§10 Other Fronts, Other Trenches
- Chapter XI War on Waves and Wings §8 The Birth of Air Power: Scouts, Fighters and Aces
- Chapter XIII A World on Fire §5 The Ottoman Fronts: Caucasus, Mesopotamia, Sinai and Persia§6 The Empires' Soldiers