Heavy Cavalry Charge

cavalry was used for all sorts of things but was best at flanking and cutting down troops who tured and ran. they had problems with pikes as any animal would. the cavalry was not good for breaking into lines, but for exploiting small breaks made by infantry,
 
The idea that warhorses cannot charge home against solid infantry is a load of crap warhorses were stallions and they were trained to attack people (Biting them, picking them up in their teeth and shaking or tearing of flesh, stomping people, and lashing out with their hooves, I remember a battle in napoleonic times where stallions ripped of russian infantyrmens faces and carried others off in their teeth) the Gendarmes at Ceresole, Marignano, Ravenna, Seminaria and Dreux charged home frontally in good order against pikes multiple times often going right through the square and the swiss grudgingly admitted that the gendarmes under charles the bold managed to penetrate all the way to the pike squares banners and the Husaria are mentioned charging through a fence and into the pike square eleven times and the english charged home against the scots at bannockburn as well so did Williams Cavalry for that matter as did earlier Cataphracts, and the lancers under Napoleon charged home against solid infantry several times

Also a military blogger (Gavin Robinson) isn't even sure that horses could see pikes
 
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