Salvete Omnes,
today, a short entry concentrated on the video recording from 1975, when four squadrons of the French Republican Guard recreated a cavalry charge - video.
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Valete
Showing posts with label cavalry charge. Show all posts
Showing posts with label cavalry charge. Show all posts
Wednesday, February 11, 2026
Monday, April 28, 2025
F. Remington - more cavalry charges
Salvete Omnes,
April is ending, the Pope had died and was buried past Saturday, and now they are going to elect a new Pope in a conclave of cardinals.
today, starting around 12PM European time there has been blackout in Spain, Portugal, Andorra, and some in the southern France and Italy. We lived through the 2003 August Blackout in NYC, it was not a very traumatic experience as it did not last long (one night, some 26 hours in total) and criminal activity was limited and contained. I hope they restore electricity in Spain etc quickly.
India and Pakistan are on a verge or a real armed conflict, after a terror attack in the disputed Kashmir (those pesky British politicians who created this witches' cauldron of conflict and mayhem), this could be very serious.
ad rem,
a little more equestrian art by Frederic Remington - I already posted some great cavalry charges by our American master Frederic Remington - here.
Now, I would like to share the work from Blanton Museum of Art in Texas painted circa 1906
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| the Charge |
and this famous work
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| Cavalry Charge on the Southern Plains |
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Monday, August 31, 2020
Komarow 1920-2020
Salvete Omnes,
exactly 100 year ago the brave and intrepid Polish uhlans and horse artillery cannoneers battled the Russian 1st Konarmia at Komarow and Wola Sniatycka near Zamosc.
Polish Cavalry Division commanded by colonel, later general, Juliusz Rómmel consisting of 2 cavalry brigades fought and defeated the two divisions of the 1st Konarmia. It was the last large cavalry battle of the Polish-Russian War of 1919-20, perhaps the last large cavalry battle in world history.
There are surviving memoirs and recollections written by the battle participants, one of those is a published memoir written by the 8th Uhlan Regiment commander rotmistrz (rittmeister) Kornel Krzeczunowicz , Ostatnia Kampania Konna (The Last Horse Cavalry Campaign).
General Rómmel wrote his recollections - Moje Walki z Budionnym, (My War against Budionny) Lwow 1932, but I have not read them.
This very year, during the weekend of Aug. 29-30, various Polish cavalry reenactment associations (and a detachment of fine Bavarian Uhlan reenactors) brought horses, reconstructed horse tack, and reconstructed uniforms and arms and etc in order to take part in a large, festive commemoration of the battle: the gathering included the reenactment of the battle itself, more than 400 cavalrymen and women, a logistics feat and achievement.
The festivities, on the eve of the battle anniversary, were official with Polish national and local government participation; especially with the participation of the Polish Armed Forces.
And with some participation of the public spectators - due to the current limitations on public gatherings etc.
There is this article by Nowy Kurier Zamoyski on the battled reenactment - plenty of photos.
I am pretty sure that shortly the net - especially many the Facebook pages similar to these I linked already - will be full of great and fine photos from this event in Poland; the words is that many fine photographers went over there in order to document this historic event and make some glorious art.
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There is is issue of the monument.
In 1936 in Poland this competition was called for creation of the cavalry monument commemorating the battle, and talented Polish architect Borys Zinserling won the first prize for his project titled 'pomnik Chwały Kawalerii i Artylerii Konnej' ( Glory of Cavalry and Horse Artillery monument). Once completed the monument would have been erected in Wola Sniatycka, hill 255, where on August 31 the most decisive and bitter combat between the Polish and Russian horsemen took place.
World War II and subsequent Soviet rule in Poland until 1989 delayed the construction of the monument, and even the newly restored independence did not hasten this project at first.
Fast forward then to 2007 when the idea of building the monument was resurrected among Polish historical groups and cavalry associations, and during the next 10 years the design had been worked out and improved, but the artists were working along the lines of the original project from 1936, i.e, the magnificent winged hussars0style eagle wings overlooking the battlefield.
In 2018 various organizations and many good willed people came together to finally start sculpting and to build the monument along the newly redesigned project.
Today is the 100th anniversary, the moment is very close when the monument will be erected in its rightful place.
It is going to be glorious (and very tall) once finished as evidenced by the images below, and many other images on this page:
Valete
exactly 100 year ago the brave and intrepid Polish uhlans and horse artillery cannoneers battled the Russian 1st Konarmia at Komarow and Wola Sniatycka near Zamosc.
Polish Cavalry Division commanded by colonel, later general, Juliusz Rómmel consisting of 2 cavalry brigades fought and defeated the two divisions of the 1st Konarmia. It was the last large cavalry battle of the Polish-Russian War of 1919-20, perhaps the last large cavalry battle in world history.
There are surviving memoirs and recollections written by the battle participants, one of those is a published memoir written by the 8th Uhlan Regiment commander rotmistrz (rittmeister) Kornel Krzeczunowicz , Ostatnia Kampania Konna (The Last Horse Cavalry Campaign).
General Rómmel wrote his recollections - Moje Walki z Budionnym, (My War against Budionny) Lwow 1932, but I have not read them.
This very year, during the weekend of Aug. 29-30, various Polish cavalry reenactment associations (and a detachment of fine Bavarian Uhlan reenactors) brought horses, reconstructed horse tack, and reconstructed uniforms and arms and etc in order to take part in a large, festive commemoration of the battle: the gathering included the reenactment of the battle itself, more than 400 cavalrymen and women, a logistics feat and achievement.
The festivities, on the eve of the battle anniversary, were official with Polish national and local government participation; especially with the participation of the Polish Armed Forces.
And with some participation of the public spectators - due to the current limitations on public gatherings etc.
There is this article by Nowy Kurier Zamoyski on the battled reenactment - plenty of photos.
I am pretty sure that shortly the net - especially many the Facebook pages similar to these I linked already - will be full of great and fine photos from this event in Poland; the words is that many fine photographers went over there in order to document this historic event and make some glorious art.
***
There is is issue of the monument.
In 1936 in Poland this competition was called for creation of the cavalry monument commemorating the battle, and talented Polish architect Borys Zinserling won the first prize for his project titled 'pomnik Chwały Kawalerii i Artylerii Konnej' ( Glory of Cavalry and Horse Artillery monument). Once completed the monument would have been erected in Wola Sniatycka, hill 255, where on August 31 the most decisive and bitter combat between the Polish and Russian horsemen took place.
World War II and subsequent Soviet rule in Poland until 1989 delayed the construction of the monument, and even the newly restored independence did not hasten this project at first.
Fast forward then to 2007 when the idea of building the monument was resurrected among Polish historical groups and cavalry associations, and during the next 10 years the design had been worked out and improved, but the artists were working along the lines of the original project from 1936, i.e, the magnificent winged hussars0style eagle wings overlooking the battlefield.
In 2018 various organizations and many good willed people came together to finally start sculpting and to build the monument along the newly redesigned project.
Today is the 100th anniversary, the moment is very close when the monument will be erected in its rightful place.
It is going to be glorious (and very tall) once finished as evidenced by the images below, and many other images on this page:
Valete
Friday, May 13, 2016
Wspomnienie szarzy - 1920
Salve,
[in Polish]
coraz częściej sięgam do publikacji związanych z wojnami Polski o niepodległości AD 1917-21, i 'kartkując' na Wielkopolskiej Cyfrowej miesięcznik wojskowy ''Przegląd Kawaleryjski'' w numerze z 1939 roku natrafiłem na fragment wspomnień napisanych przez ppor rezerwy dr Tadeusz Kosiński ( być możne to doktor praw, prawnik i starszy asystent w Zakładzie Prawa Procesowego Cywilnego Wydziału Prawa Uniwersytetu Jana Kazimierza we Lwowie - informacje o nim wziąłem z tego artykułu - który po aresztowaniu prze NKWD w październiku 1939, spędził parę lat w wiezieniach i łagrach sowieckich, aż zaginał bezpowrotnie gdzieś w sowieckiej Azji Centralnej po 1941 roku).
Wspomnienia dotyczą wydarzenia w czasie jesiennej, zwycięskiej kampanii 1920 roku, i fragment przedstawia opis szarzy ułanów 1 Brygady Jazdy na oddziały piechoty bolszewickiej pod wsią Kłębówka koło Zasławia, szarzy z dnia 23 wrzesnia 1920 roku, napisany dzień po jej wykonaniu, w piątek 24 września 1920 roku:
Otóż wydaje mi się, że to jest nic innego jak opis fragmentu słynnej szarży 5-tego pułku ułanów zasławskich, od której to pułk dostał swoją nazwę. Opis szarży w ''Zarys historji wojennej 5-go Pułku Ułanów Zasławskich'':
Nota bene żurawiejki pułkowe tutaj.
Pozdrawiam
ps
o innej szarży pułku z 1920 roku, pod Korostyszewem - z malarzem Stanisławem E. Bodesem
coraz częściej sięgam do publikacji związanych z wojnami Polski o niepodległości AD 1917-21, i 'kartkując' na Wielkopolskiej Cyfrowej miesięcznik wojskowy ''Przegląd Kawaleryjski'' w numerze z 1939 roku natrafiłem na fragment wspomnień napisanych przez ppor rezerwy dr Tadeusz Kosiński ( być możne to doktor praw, prawnik i starszy asystent w Zakładzie Prawa Procesowego Cywilnego Wydziału Prawa Uniwersytetu Jana Kazimierza we Lwowie - informacje o nim wziąłem z tego artykułu - który po aresztowaniu prze NKWD w październiku 1939, spędził parę lat w wiezieniach i łagrach sowieckich, aż zaginał bezpowrotnie gdzieś w sowieckiej Azji Centralnej po 1941 roku).
Wspomnienia dotyczą wydarzenia w czasie jesiennej, zwycięskiej kampanii 1920 roku, i fragment przedstawia opis szarzy ułanów 1 Brygady Jazdy na oddziały piechoty bolszewickiej pod wsią Kłębówka koło Zasławia, szarzy z dnia 23 wrzesnia 1920 roku, napisany dzień po jej wykonaniu, w piątek 24 września 1920 roku:
Nota bene żurawiejki pułkowe tutaj.
Pozdrawiam
ps
o innej szarży pułku z 1920 roku, pod Korostyszewem - z malarzem Stanisławem E. Bodesem
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