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4th Galician Uhlans (Emperor's)
The Austro-Hungarian Uhlan Regiment "Kaiser" No. 4 was a cavalry unit in the Joint Army within the Austro-Hungarian Land Forces. In 1915, all honorary names were deleted without replacement. From then on, the association was only called "k.u.k. Uhlan Regiment No. 4" (However, this could not be enforced in common parlance, on the one hand because no one adhered to it, on the other hand the thrifty Austro-Hungarian military administration had decreed that all existing stamps and forms should first be used up). The regiment had a golden holder's jubilee medal, awarded by the Supreme Letter of Order of 30 November 1898, to be worn on a silver trumpet of honour. On the obverse, it showed the relief portrait of the emperor in the owner's uniform, the inscription "Franz Joseph I:" and the shield of the Most High coat of arms with crown. The reverse contained the dedication: "The owner of his Uhlan regiment No. 4, 1848 - 1898". The trumpet of honour was decorated with gold relief and an em ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Battle Of Königgrätz
The Battle of Königgrätz (or Sadowa) was the decisive battle of the Austro-Prussian War in which the Kingdom of Prussia defeated the Austrian Empire. It took place on 3 July 1866, near the Bohemian city of Hradec Králové (German: Königgrätz) and village of Sadová, now in the Czech Republic. It was the single largest battle of the war, and the largest battle in the world since the Battle of Leipzig in 1813. Prussian forces totaled around 285,000 troops. Superior training, tactical doctrine and the Dreyse needle gun were instrumental in the victory. Prussian artillery was ineffective and almost all of the fighting on the Prussian side was done by the First Army under Prince Friedrich Karl and one division from the Second Army. The Prussian 7th Infantry Division and 1st Guards Infantry Division attacked and destroyed 38 out of 49 infantry battalions of four Austrian corps at the Swiepwald and Chlum at the centre of the battlefield. The Austrian army was forced to retre ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cavalry
Historically, cavalry (from the French word ''cavalerie'', itself derived from ''cheval'' meaning "horse") are groups of soldiers or warriors who Horses in warfare, fight mounted on horseback. Until the 20th century, cavalry were the most mobile of the combat arms, operating as light cavalry in the roles of reconnaissance, Screening (tactical), screening, and skirmisher, skirmishing, or as heavy cavalry for decisive economy of force and shock attacks. An individual soldier in the cavalry is known by a number of designations depending on era and tactics, such as a cavalryman, Equestrianism, horseman, trooper (rank), trooper, cataphract, knight, Drabant Corps of Charles XII, drabant, hussar, uhlan, mamluk, cuirassier, lancer, dragoon, samurai or horse archer. The designation of ''cavalry'' was not usually given to any Military animal, military forces that used other animals or platforms for mounts, such as chariots, Camel cavalry, camels or War elephant, elephants. Infantry who m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Polish Cavalry
The Polish cavalry () can trace its origins back to the days of medieval cavalry knights. Poland is mostly a country of flatlands and fields and mounted forces operate well in this environment. The knights and heavy cavalry gradually evolved into many different types of specialised mounted military formations, some of which heavily influenced western warfare and military science. This article details the evolution of Polish cavalry tactics, traditions and arms from the times of mounted knights and heavy Polish Hussars, winged hussars, through the times of light uhlans to mounted infantry equipped with ranged and mêlée weapons. Early medieval times The first Polish cavalry was created by the Duke of Polans (western), Polans - Mieszko I of Poland, Mieszko I, who united the West Slavs, West Slav tribes in the area of modern Poland. It's noted in the manuscript of Abraham ben Jacob who traveled in 961–62 in Central Europe. He wrote that the druzhina, drużyna of Mieszko I had 3 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Polish Cavalry
The Polish cavalry () can trace its origins back to the days of medieval cavalry knights. Poland is mostly a country of flatlands and fields and mounted forces operate well in this environment. The knights and heavy cavalry gradually evolved into many different types of specialised mounted military formations, some of which heavily influenced western warfare and military science. This article details the evolution of Polish cavalry tactics, traditions and arms from the times of mounted knights and heavy Polish Hussars, winged hussars, through the times of light uhlans to mounted infantry equipped with ranged and mêlée weapons. Early medieval times The first Polish cavalry was created by the Duke of Polans (western), Polans - Mieszko I of Poland, Mieszko I, who united the West Slavs, West Slav tribes in the area of modern Poland. It's noted in the manuscript of Abraham ben Jacob who traveled in 961–62 in Central Europe. He wrote that the druzhina, drużyna of Mieszko I had 3 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
6th Kaniow Uhlan Regiment
6th Kaniow Uhlan Regiment (Polish language: 5 Pułk Ułanów Kaniowskich, 6 puł) was a cavalry unit of the Polish Army in the Second Polish Republic. It was garrisoned in the city of Ivano-Frankivsk, Stanisławów, and the regiment was named after the Battle of Kaniow. The regiment was formed in 1917, as part of Polish II Corps in Russia, to be dissolved after the battle of Kaniow (May 12, 1918). Formed again in December 1918, as a merger of 6th Uhlan Regiment of Lwów Cavalry and 6th Uhlan regiment from Odessa. Its traditions were based on the 6th Duchy of Warsaw Uhlan Regiment and 6th Children of Warsaw Uhlan Regiment, both of which fought in the November Uprising. In the Polish-Soviet War, the regiment fought in several battles in southeastern Poland, at Michnowo, Zasławiec, Nowo Konstantynów, Kumanowice and Lysa Gora. After that war it was garrisoned in Stanisławów. In the 1939 Invasion of Poland, the regiment was part of Podolska Cavalry Brigade, fighting mostly in ce ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Imperial And Royal Uhlans
Together with the Imperial and Royal Dragoons, Dragoons and Imperial and Royal Hussars, Hussars, the Imperial and Royal Uhlans (), made up the cavalry of the Austro-Hungarian Land Forces 1867–1914, Austro-Hungarian Army from 1867 to 1918, both in the Common Army and in the Austrian Landwehr, where they were known as the Imperial-Royal Landwehr Uhlans (''k.k. Landwehr-Ulanen''). The Austrian monarchy, weakened by losing the Austro-Prussian War, war against Prussia in 1866, effectively had to guarantee the autonomy of the Kingdom of Hungary in the so-called Austro-Hungarian Compromise of 1867, Compromise of 15 March 1867. As a result, the Transleithania, Hungarian half of the Empire immediately began to establish its own army, the Royal Hungarian Landwehr (Hungarian: ''Magyar Királyi Honvédség''). Following the signing of the Compromise, the Cisleithania, Austrian half of the Empire also started to build an army, the Imperial-Royal Landwehr (German: ''k.k. Landwehr''). The two ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pennon
A pennon, also known as a pennant or pendant, is a long narrow flag which is larger at the Hoist (flag), hoist than at the Fly (flag), fly, i.e., the flag narrows as it moves away from the flagpole. It can have several shapes, such as triangular, tapering (square tail) or triangular swallowtail (forked tail), etc. In Maritime flag, maritime use, pennants are to be hung from the Truck (rigging), main truck. Pennon-style flags were one of the principal three varieties of flags carried during the Middle Ages (the other two were the banner and the Heraldic flag#Standard, standard). The pennon is a flag resembling the guidon (heraldic flag), guidon in shape, but only half the size. It does not contain any coat of arms, but only Crest (heraldry), crests, mottos and heraldic and ornamental devices. Pennoncell, streamer and wimpel are minor varieties of this style of flag (see #Variant types, variant types). Etymology Pennon comes from the Latin ''penna'', meaning "a wing" or "a feat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ulanka
A kurtka () is the generic word for a jacket in a number of European languages, most notably in Polish and Russian. Etymology The word itself is a Slavic diminutive of the original Hungarian word ''kurta'', which in turn was derived of the Latin word ''curtus'', "excurtus", meaning short (see Alejandro Cioranescu: Diccionario Etimologico Rumano). Military uniforms In terms of military uniforms, the kurtka was a type of close fitting double breasted jacket, cut to the waist and often worn with a plastron, a contrasting-coloured panel of cloth covering the chest. It was worn by lancers and uhlans, a type of light cavalry which had its origins in the Lipka Tatars who served the kings of Poland, but were widely copied by the armies of many western nations from the start of the 19th century along with their distinctive style of dress. The lancer's kurtka developed from a jacket called a ''kontusz'', which during the late 18th century became shortened into the kurtka. Martial arts I ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hechtgrau
Cadet grey (spelled gray in American English) is a somewhat Blue-gray, blue-greyish shade of the colour grey. The first recorded use of ''cadet grey'' as a colour name in English language, English was in 1912. Before 1912, the word ''cadet grey'' was used as a name for a type of military issue uniform. Variations Space cadet Displayed at right is the colour space cadet. ''Space cadet'' is one of the colours on the Resene Colour List, a colour list popular in Australia and New Zealand. The colour "space cadet" was formulated in 2007. Cadet blue Displayed at right is the greyish blue web color, web colour cadet blue. The first recorded use of ''cadet blue'' as a colour name in English was in 1892. In 1987, cadet blue was formulated as one of the X11 colours, which in the early 1990s became known as the X11 color names, X11 web colours. Cadet Displayed at right is the colour cadet, a dark shade of cadet grey. The first recorded use of ''cadet'' as a colour name in Engli ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
