History of cavalry

Prehistory

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Antique Asia and Middle-East cavalry

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  Assyrian cavalry.
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  Assyrian lancer.
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  Scythian cavalry.
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  Parthian horse archer.

Cavalry in the pre-roman Mediterranean civilizations

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Roman Era : roman cavalry and ennemies of Rome

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Dark Ages cavalry

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Middle Ages in Europe

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Renaissance in Europe

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17th century in Europe

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18th century in Europe

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Napoleonic period

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  Red lancer of the Imperial Guard.
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  French line dragon of the 12th Regiment.
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19th century in Europe

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  French cavalry and Bavarian prisoners during the Franco-Prussian War of 1870-1871.
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19th century in America

North America

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  U.S. cavalry group, the Ulysses Grant Memorial.
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  Lancer of the Canadian North-West Mounted Police, 1875.

Latin America

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  Paraguayan cavalry at the Battle of Tuyuti, 1866.
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  Mexican Cavalry of the Line, 1889.

Cavalry in Ancient China

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Mongol cavalry

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  Mongol horse herd.
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  Mongols at the walls of Vladimir, 1238
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  Mongol/Korean mounted warrior.

Islamic world

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Cavalry in Ancient Japan

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Ancient native cavalry

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  Native brazilean mounted warrior after French painter J.-B. Debret, 18th or early 19th century.
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  Indian mahratta mounted warrior, 1820.
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  Native American cavalry.
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  Mounted warrior of the Kingdom of Baguirmi, 1901.
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  Mundang horsemen - a picture taken by the Mission Moll to Congo, Oubangui-Chari, Chad and Cameroun between 1905 and 1907.

Early 20th century cavalry

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  Bulgarian Life Guard Cavalry Squadron Officers, 1903.
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  Cavalry mêlée during the Russo-Japanese war,1904.
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  Australian Light Horses, 1904.
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  Chilean cavalry, 1913.
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  Pre-World War I Imperial German Garde-Ulanen in Döberitz.

World War I

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  French cuirassiers in Paris, August 1914.
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  German cavalry in Belgium, October 1914.
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  Cossack of Life Guards Composite Cossacks Regiment, Russia 1914.
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  Anzac light cavalry in Palestine, early 1917.
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  Swiss cavalry patrolling the frontiers, 1917.

Interwar period

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  Polish Uhlans charge during the war with the Soviets, 1919.
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  Chinese cavalry in Harbin, 1929.
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  German Reichswehr cavalry, 1930.
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  Japanese cavalry in Mukden, 1931.
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  German cavalry in Prague, March 1939.

World War II

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  Soviet cavalry in Lviv, 1939.
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  German cavalry in France, 1940.
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  French Circassian cavalry in Syria, 1941.
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  SS-Kavallerie-Division in Russia, 1942.
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  Polish Home Army irregular cavalry, 1944-45.

Modern cavalry

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  The Horse Guards trooping the Colour, London 2007.
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  Horses and tracks of the Household Cavalry in Hyde Park, London.
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  M1A2 Tank of the US 3rd Armored Cavalry regiment in Iraq, 2005.
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  VBL (armoured light vehicle) of the French 1st Airborne Hussars Regiment (1er Régiment de Hussards parachutistes ) in Afghanistan, 2006.