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To: x1stcav

Absolutely! Loved the battle scene at the end where the German kept telling the Turks, “They won’t charge”.


4 posted on 04/28/2010 3:08:50 PM PDT by Ikemeister
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To: Ikemeister

It wasn’t in their doctrine to charge...until their command decided on an unorthodox approach.

My impression is that the ‘Light Horse’ were rather like our ‘Dragoons’ of an earlier moment...heavy infantry that depended on the horse to get them to the FEBA, and forward, whereupon they dismounted and fought as Infantry.

In the movie, they were, accurately, displayed without sabres...they wielded their bayonets.

Great fun and a great tribute to a very heroic bunch of boyos.


18 posted on 04/28/2010 7:40:05 PM PDT by x1stcav (Charter member of the Yukon Army..)
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