Australian Stock Horse
During the First World War, the Australian Light Horse Regiments took part in the greatest cavalry exploits in modern history. Alongside other nations it was the Australians, and particularly their horses, that outshone the rest. Regarded as the ... [... more]
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Kregg P. Jorgenson
KREGG P.J. JORGENSON served in Vietnam with Company H, Rangers, and later with Apache Troop, the 1st of the 9th Cavalry. LRRP COMPANY COMMANDER is his fifth book about the men who fought in Vietnam. He is a graduate of the University of Maryland ... [... more]
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Jack Hurst
Amid the aristocratic ranks of the Confederate cavalry, Nathan Bedford Forrest was untutored, all but unlettered, and regarded as no more than a guerrilla. His tactic was the headlong charge, mounted with such swiftness and ferocity that General ... [... more]
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Richard D. Spalding
After being mortared his first five nights in Vietnam during Tet, 1969, Richard D. Spalding was ready to fly Cobras with the Centaurs, Buffalo Bill Cody's old outfit as part of D Troop, 3rd Squadron, 4th Cavalry, 25th Infantry Division. PLUNGING ... [... more]
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Daniel Beattie
The road to Gettysburg began at Brandy Station on June 9, 1863. However, the cavalry clash in Culpeper County, Virginia, counts for more than just the opening round of Lee's second invasion of the North. The battle showed both sides that the ... [... more]
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Larry Gwin
Larry Gwin was commissioned as an infantry lieutenant out of Yale University in 1963. After two years with the 82d Airborne Division, he served as an advisor to a South Vietnamese Army battalion in the Mekong Delta before joining the 1st Cavalry ... [... more]
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Ches Schneider
Ches Schneider has been teaching English and history since 1966. During 1969 and 1970, he served in two combat units, the First Infantry Division and the First Air Cavalry, in the Republic of Vietnam. His military awards include the Combat ... [... more]
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Stephen E. Ambrose
On the sparkling morning of June 25, 1876, 611 men of the United States 7th Cavalry rode toward the banks of the Little Bighorn in the Montana Territory, where 3,000 Indians stood waiting for battle. The lives of two great warriors would soon be ... [... more]
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Claude Newby
For grunts in Vietnam, the war was a jungle hell of sudden death, endless suffering, and supreme courage. For Chaplain Newby, it was an honor to be chosen to share it with them. In... A Cavalry Chaplain's Memoir of Vietnam It Took Heroes Claude Newby [... more]
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Jeffrey Fowler
It is often forgotten that the German Wehrmacht of 1939-45 relied heavily upon horses. Not only was the majority of Army transport and much of the artillery dependent on draught horse teams; the Germans also kept a horse-mounted cavalry division ... [... more]
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Laurence Spring
During the Napoleonic Wars, the Cossacks were Russia's unique and plentiful supply of irregular cavalry. They were employed as skirmishers, raiders and scouts, and their tactics of harassment and harrying caused great problems for Napoleon's ... [... more]
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Peter Panzeri
The death of George Armstrong Custer, and over half of his 7th Cavalry Regiment in the valley of the Little Big Horn on 25 July 1876, has become the most celebrated battle of the Indian wars. It was the greatest, and the last, victory of the ... [... more]
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