Best of HN 2013, #2: 21 Cavalry photos you have to see to believe
Between now and the New Year, we’re counting down HN’s most popular posts of 2013. With 176,593 views, here’s #2.
21 Cavalry photos you have to see to believe by Wylie, published July 25, 2013:
It’s official: People in the cavalry were INSANE–and we’ve got proof. Check out this craziness….
At cavalry school, riders learned many important skills, like jumping while holding a lance overhead…
Look ma, no hands! A German cavalry officer in training, 1914. [warhorsegazette.blogspot.com]
Capt. Joel L. Stokes with “Demon” and “Winnie Winkle” at Fort Knox in 1931. Stokes commanded the Kentucky Army National Guard’s Troop K, 123rd Cavalry Regiment. [kentuckyguard.wordpress.com]
“Hey Walt, betcha can’t jump that jeep!” Walter J. Schweitzer, Troop “C” 107th Cavalry NG, jumping his horse “Big Cain” over a jeep at Fort Ord, Calif., in 1942. [freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com]
Not to be one-upped… an officer of the 115th Cavalry jumping a Jeep. Courtesy Wyoming State Archives. [tamara-linse.blogspot.com]
This horse does NOT look happy to be jumping a picnic table–or maybe it has something to do with his rider? He might have to repeat a grade in Cavalry School. [prints.national-army-museum.ac.uk]
The original cross-country “table.” Fort Riley, Kansas. [Public Domain: Library of Congress]
Crotchbuster! A horse-show stunt exhibition at the U.S. Army post Fort Sheridan in 1930. [lakecountyhistory.blogspot.com]
Another bad idea being brought to life at Fort Sheridan, 6th Signal Corps, in 1930. [lakecountyhistory.blogspot.com]
Whiskey, the famed Army horse at Fort Snelling, in 1930. [jumpinghorse.blogfa.com]
Make it stop! Fort Sheridan, 1920. [idaillinois.org]
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Every officer of the Italian Cavalry School in Pinerolo was required to go down “the descent of Mombrone” before they left the school. The 20-foot drop from the window of a ruined castle about three miles from Pinerolo was considered a test of nerve. [lrgaf.org]
More cliff-jump training. [Pinterest]
These guys are just jumping off a house, no big. From “Riding Forward: Modern Horsemanship for Beginners” written in 1934 by Vladimir Littauer, Captain, 1st Hussars, Russian Imperial Cavalry. [imh.org]
Fort Myer, Virginia, circa 1914. Cpl. Coffey, C Troop. [Shorpy.com]
The 14th Cavalry entering U.S. Army post Fort Sheridan’s parade grounds in1925. Ekmark photograph.[lakecountyhistory.blogspot.com]
German cavalry firing from the standing saddle position, 1935. [photosofwar.net]
Are they seriously supposed to jump that whole thing? [needasweetdistraction.tumblr.com]
And who can forget Chilean army officer Captain Alberto Larraguibel, who guided his stallion Huaso over an 8’1″ jump in 1949, setting a world high jump record that still stands today. [horsenation.com]
The winner of the silver medal at the 1936 Berlin Olympics, Captain Thomson (U.S.A.) on “Jenny Camp”, takes the 35th obstacle during the cross-country competition. Out of 50 entries, 27 horses completed the course, three were fatally injured, and two horses were unable to finish on account of lameness. [fotosochi.ru]
The Imperial Camel Corp Brigade was a camel-mounted infantry brigade that the British Empire raised in 1916 during the World War I for service in the Middle East. [wikipedia.org]
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