Salvete Omnes,
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| WHP - Banners in the battle of Grunwald |
hear! hear !- today's 615 years since Polish Kingdom and allies' gained their great victory over the Teutonic Order and Western European allies in the fields between Stebark and Grunwald, near Olsztyn in Poland.
A short video on the armament and armor of the knight [in Polish]
Another video on the armor and armament of a lightly armed horseman [in Polish], also the non-battlefield parade dress of the well-to-do nobleman or magnate [in Polish]
The Grand Master Urlich von Jungingen - Jaroslaw Struczynski of Gniew Castle in this role - reenactment at Grunwald [in Polish] Among others there is a tale about the horse and needful training of horses for reenactment.
video on the Teutonic knight - arms and armor[in Polish]
This year reenactment of the famous battle took place past weekend, July 11-13, 2025 - here a short video prepared by Gazeta Olsztynska. Here a view from the bleachers. On Facebook you can faind hundreds of photos of this year's reenactment, eg search this photographer Ann Nowakowska.
also,
do recall that in 2023 I translated and reedited this book by Mariusz Moroz from Winged Hussar Publishing LLC - it can be had from Amazon or WHP site.
Pacem Aeternam to all knights, squires and retainers
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Salvete Omnes,
a short entry but with imagery in mind - XVIII century cavalry and military minds.
Comte Drummond de Melfort (1726-1788), being a French arts of war practitioner and writer, published a book on the Cavalry (Traite de Cavalerie) - available via Archive World Library.
I corralled some illustrations from this volume.
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| horse studs were the basis for establishment and maintenance good cavalry body in the pre-mechanized world |
having fought under marechal Maurice de Saxe our veteran officer quotes his commander in his introduction.
He mentions Normandy as the preeminent horse country, horses of Normandy are fit to be used for hunt (chase), fore the king's court, for the cavalry, for dragoons, as the mounts of officer corps. Next come the horses of Brittany, fit for the cavalry service of any type. The horses from Franche-Comte and Picardie are fit for the service of artillery.
Next the horses for the light cavalry, according to general Drummond, are bred and come from the provinces of Navarre, l'Auverge, le Morvan and Lorraine Allemande (German Lorraine) and are the best .
Horses needed to forage and feed daily - le comte Drummond addresses this issue as well - two plates on forage
enjoy
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Salvete Omnes,
The Bodleian Library has this manuscript of travel, wonders and signatures fashionable in the northern lands, titled Album Amicorum of Jan van der Deck, from circa 1592AD.
in this beautiful album there are many an interesting image, including one image of a sumptuous carriage driven an 'auriga' - a driver - seated on the edge of this pleasure coach, in what appears as one specially created seat in this carriage.
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Salvete Omnes,
I have been perusing Academia platform for ever it seems, and recently I encountered the published Ph.D.
thesis by medieval history scholar prof. Andrew Ayton - The warhorse and military service under Edward III.
Professor Ayton made this work available for reading and/or download and perusul at your own leisure,.
The link is here.
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