“Une Arme Qui Porte Toujours Beau,” La Patrie. November 7, 1932. Page 1.
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Palpitante charge de cavalerie au cours des récentes manoeuvres exécutées par l'armée espagnole à Pisuerga, Valence, en présence du premier ministre Manuel Azana, des attachés militaires et des ambassadeurs des différentes puissances européennes.
I am still angry that I was not somehow living in New Zealand with my horse in 1999 when they put out the call for extras who could ride to be Rohirrim, so I could be a part of the charge over the Pelennor Fields.
I think Imrahil and Denethor's relationship is fascinatingly terrible. Genuine hatred from Imrahil met with just utter contempt from Denethor. Denethor mistrusts Faramir, but allocates him significant military forces and does not feel the need to tell him how to do his job. Faramir is given his objectives, and expected to figure out for himself how to achieve them. Denethor does not micromanage him.
Imrahil on the other hand gets no rope at all. A blast of the horn to charge, another blast to retreat, no room for interpretation. It's almost insulting, Imrahil is a great lord in his own right and a well-respected commander, yet Denethor treats him like a foolish subordinate. Previously at council Imrahil's concerns over holding Cair Andros are just swept aside by Denethor. Faramir also ignores him and makes his own entirely separate complaint. The utter disrespect!
Imrahil immediately jumps on Aragorn's bandwagon, and is only more firm with this once he finds Denethor is dead. I don't think he likes Faramir either. Pushing Aragorn to proclaim himself king without consulting Faramir first doesn’t suggest much love between them to me.
Obviously the ghost of Finduilas is haunting all of this, even if it wasn't Denethor's fault, she left Dol Amroth for his sake and that killed her, but I don't think Denethor and Imrahil were ever friends even before that.
When can their glory fade?
O the wild charge they made!
All the world wondered.
Honour the charge they made!
Honour the Light Brigade,
Noble six hundred!
Alfred, Lord Tennyson, The Charge of the Light Brigade
Spectacular footage from 1898 entitled “The Charge of the Light Cavalry”.
The hilarity of that attempted comparison between elendil's armor and boromir's armor in an attempt to shame trop is that a, they are entirely different kinds of armor from different time periods for different purposes, and b, these people are clearly not knowledgeable about any of this? "No care went into this" elendil is wearing a quilted gambeson. Everything else you are saying is completely invalid before I even move on to anything else. He is wearing a quilted gambeson. It is DIFFERENT ARMOR. Like I always say, dislike the show all you want, it's no skin off my nose (that's a lie I'll be annoyed) but when your complaint is 'this armor doesn't look exactly like this entirely different type of armor inspired by an entirely different era of history from our world let alone the evolution and divergence of culture that happens textually in-story, let alone that one man is fighting in melee and one is fighting ON A SHIP' I just have to conclude you are being deliberately obtuse at best
October 31st is still remembered by some in Australia for one of the last successful cavalry charges in the history of warfare, not for something called halloween.
" On October 31, 1917, the 4th Light Horse Brigade of Australia -- 500 riders strong -- was assembled four miles outside of the town of Beersheba (a city now part of Israel but then a southern outpost of the Ottoman Empire.) Across four miles of burning Sinai desert several thousand Turks were entrenched. The Australians had already ridden 170 miles to join Allied forces, mostly British. The Allies were essentially pinned down, forced to stay out of the three-mile range of the Turkish guns.
The 4th Light Horse was commanded by Brigadier-General William Grant, who was shocked to find the Allies were out of water. The horses in his cavalry were so dehydrated their lips cracked and bled. Somewhere around noon that day he looked across the desert and made a decision that even he thought was suicidal. But his horses were dying.
Grant mounted his horse, assembled his cavalry (scattered around so they would not make an easy target for German planes) and at 4:30PM rode to the front, drew what was then the world's longest bayonet, turned toward Beersheba and yelled "CHARGE !!!" "
Read the rest of this account here - https://www.colindangaard.com/australian-cavalry-charge
prose merlin writes better war scenarios than a lot of anime and movies nowadays
thei lowed ther speres and yaf togeder so grete strokes upon sheldes that thei perced haubrekes and dismailed, and many ther were throwen to grounde sore bledynge with stroke of speres. And many ther were that passed thourgh withoute fallinge. Whan the speres were broken, thei leide honde to swerdes and begonne the bataile grete and merveilouse
THAT'S HOW YOU DO IT LADS! CAVALRY CHARGES FIRST! SPEARS FIRST! SHIELD WALL FIRST!! WHEN THE SPEARS BREAK THAT'S WHEN YOU USEDYOUR SWORDS!