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Napoleonic Cavalry

I've never really liked the cavalry much. Give me a solid English Redcoat or a dashing Voltigeur any day of the week. The cavalry were, in my mind better at looting helpless baggage trains, sabring fleeing, broken enemy (broken by whom I ask you?) and charging into the enemy guns on exhausted horses when they should be sensibly retiring. And the uniforms were, even by Napoleonic standards quite ridiculous.

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