Winged Hussars (Husaria) - Greatest Cavalry in the History

See the might and beauty of Winged Hussars, pride of Poland.

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[EarthaKit2]

or was it everoone against poland?

they all want you! You're at the crossroad!

[kam2150]

@EarthaKit2 Right ; )

At least, when it was one on one Poland was usually victorius ; )

[EarthaKit2]

Well, Thanks. I'm only learning all this now. I'm from C. Amer.

The battle goes on. It's always Freedom against slavery. The Dark vs. Light.

Islam vs. Evoled Society. 

[kam2150]

@EarthaKit2 Well, for Poland it was always PL vs Everyone ; P

[EarthaKit2]

Who did the Hussars fight against? The Turks? 

Were the WInged Hussars in the field with Sobieski against the Turks?

[kam2150]

@EarthaKit2 They fought against every nation surrounding Polish-Lithuania Commonwealth, just check XVIc and XVIIc maps. And yes, Sobieski had 2500-3000 Winged Hussars at the battle of Vienna. And it wasn't first time for Sobieski to use hussars against Turks.

[kam2150]

No, you are wrong, at Kircholm Sweden had 11000 soldiers (2000 cavalry, 9000 infantry ), Polish (in fact Lithuanian) forces had 3600 soldiers (1000 infantry, 2600 cavalry).

Polish-Lithuanian winged hussars crushed Swedish infantry and calavry in about 30 minutes.

Casulties were 100 dead and 200 wounded on Polish side, and 5000 dead + 500 captured on Swedish side.

[anonymous133711]

@kam2150 hmm ritterbruder is the best cavalry in the history

[bapeva23]

Amazing video! „Polak, Węgier, dwa bratanki, i do szabli, i do szklanki.”

"Lengyel-magyar két jó barát, Együtt harcol s issza borát. "

[metalgearrexlover]

Austrain infantry: ....halp....

[leeknivek]

amazing.

[Bjjownsu10]

That was an awesome charge!

[Tomenable]

Hussars were knights not soldiers (because they fought for fame, not for money - they received money but their soldier's pay was not enough to cover their expenses for equipment, lances, horses, etc.), but were a professional formation - not a "levy en masse" or something like this.

All Hussars had to be well trained to serve in this formation.

Usually you had to serve for several years in other types of cavalry (like Pancerni or light cavalry or Dragoons) to be recruited to Husaria.

[Tomenable]

You also had to train since early childhood to get access to this formation.

And to be an officer in this formation - you not only had to train since childhood, but you also had to be very rich in order to pay for equipment of your entire unit.

[Tomenable]

Moreover - serving in Husaria was always not profitable for soldiers of this formation.

This was a very expensive formation and most of financial costs were suffered by soldiers (or rather - by officers who had to equipp also "privates" in their units).

The only profit from serving in Husaria was fame and honour.

[Tomenable]

The firepower of infantry was not enough to stop a charge of cavalry which had good morale and was well trained also in 18th century.

But in 18th century the quality of Husaria rapidly declined.

This was caused by lack of proper training, collapse of discipline, lack of financial capabilities of the Polish State Treasury to maintain a decent army.

This is all explained by Radoslaw Sikora in this and other books.

He is an expert on history of Husaria and also 17th - 18th century warfare.

[Tomenable]

At Klissow the only charge carried out by Hussaria was carried out by 260 Hussars and it was a reconnaisance charge, not a real attack.

It was stopped by anti-cavalry obstacles not by enemy fire.

I recommend the book "Z Dziejow Husarii" ("From History of Husaria") by Radoslaw Sikora.

Author explains also why the formation declined in 18th century - the decline was not caused by technological advancement - after all cavalry was still efficient on the battlefield in 19th century (see Napoleon)