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oh, the horses were not jsut random horses. Selling a hussar horse meant a death penalty in Poland. So yeah they were not only the most important, but also very protected

Just in case you don't know Poland still does have a unit with the winged hussars emblem. Only now they got Leopard tanks & other modern heavy weaponry.

8:40 breaking a lance was by design. Hussars after charge turn back rearm and take new lance, usually 3-4 times. Trying to get a 5m lance from stuffed janissary would be problematic in a heat of battle, isn't it.

Battle under Hodów: Ottomans- 40 000 (35 000-60 000) Poles-100 hussars and 300 light cavlry Result: Polish Victory

The armour was made in Venice and as well a masterpiece of equipment

1:23 - 1:35 - Bogurodzica - medieval and at the same time the oldest polish religious and poetic song. Author unknown. In Poland, it is considered the first national anthem (until Mazurek Dąbrowski's was created after 1797).

My Husar DNA is starting to twitch

1:23 and the winged Hussars arrived

0:39 +40,000 Crimean Tatar troops ravaging Vienna surroundings Great material by the way. Such well-prepared material about Winged Hussars is a rarity on YT. However, the thesis on the impact of the development of firearms on the disappearance of the Polish hussars is exaggerated, or even wrong. Regards!

Nice one but you lost many important facts. Firstly hussars was formation specialized in breaking shooters defended by pikes. Wings evolved from eastern warfare where Tatars often uses kind of lasso to pull rider from it's horse when "stick at back" prevent it by easy dropping it. Lances was only equipment fully delivered by King. Koncerz was effective weapon which got its use after lance break and was blocked by saddle to continue nailing enemies at charging further. Then hussar continued with sabre or break and retreat for next charge into its lines. Here is text which can help you understand why they were so badass: "Hussar tactics against infantry. Until the enemy fired a firearms salvo, the hussar's charge was conducted in a loose formation (about 3 meters between the horses in each row), tightened only about 100 to 60 meters in front of the enemy, or "knee to knee" approaches. Hence, the opponent had little chance of hitting any of the individual hussars with muskets, pistols and cannons, so the enemy soldiers pointed their weapons towards the charging line and fired. It was expected that at least one hussar would be hit by several bullets fired at the same time. While it was recommended that firearms be fired at people and horses, it had no effect. In the event of killing a horse, the companions of the hussar's arms could pass him by, and the servant soldiers on the side, leading loose horses (grooms), led the next one, so he could continue attack in the further row. The final attack on the enemy took place in the most compact formation - hence the effectiveness of breaking through. Moreover, some banners were so efficient that they were able to loosen the already tight number in full gear, and then close it again. This made it possible to avoid possible volleys of subsequent ranks of the infantry, if such were able to make a maneuver: the time between the departure of the first row, the second row taking the place, driving the forks into the ground and firing the volley, was - with very efficient musketeers - several seconds. The hussars at a gallop (and later in a gallop) were at the same time 100-150 meters. If the first row of musketeers fired from 80 meters (although the effect of such a volley was more psychological than physical), the second row from 50 meters, the third row of infantry could still fire from about 20 meters. This last volley, from close range, was the most dangerous, but when she did not stop the attackers, the musketeers were crushed by men and horses, with no chance of hiding behind the pikeman. Long copies were an important advantage, thanks to which riders could reach defending walkers. After breaking the lance in battle - usually in half, there were still about two-meter spars in hand, with a certain combat value." Read about: histmag.org/Husaria-duma-i-chwala-polskiego-wojska-20442 It's in polish but it's enough just to google auto translate it. Best regards.

9:38 another popular weapon for "close combat" was nadziak - a combat hammer - very sharp used for puncturing helmets pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nadziak#/media/Plik:War_Hammer_MET_DP160170.jpg

I am supprised that under the name hussars, this vid didnt really mention the hungarian hussars, which can be considered the first verified hussars in history, and from where it was copied by others. Polish made there own and truly great and unique version of it. But why you say, Vienna was the last succesful battle of hussars? Hungarian hussars fought in western armies duriing the 1700s, and turned the battles against fire arms.... this is why western armies started to copy them and they made their own hussar unites. Hungarian and polish hussars fought in the american civil war, and orgainzed the first american cavalry. In hungary hussars freed our county agains Habsburgs wiht hussars in many battle outnumbered.... And by the way sabre the main weapon of hussars is a hungarian word.... szablya means cutter (szab=cut).

I just found the chanel, when I saw cartoony avatar and name bit weird name with -ID at the end I wasn't expecting well research video but I was wrong. Clarifying sone misconceptions, saying that nobody agrees when it comes to the wings. You did very good job, way better than some bigger KZfaqrs (like Metatrons video about the Polish Hussars has so many mistakes, even number of hussars at Vienna). Interesting video, good research.

Atak wyglądał tak, że ruszali w luźnym szyku a przed samym uderzeniem jechali koń przy koniu - bardzo ciasno. To dawało skoncentrowane uderzenie. Nie jak w filmach taką rozproszoną grupą.

Inb4 the Sabaton fans arrive

Very often in paintings and films a basic mistake is made. The long hussar lance was set in a leather bag attached to the saddle with a strap. Thanks to this, the hussar could not lose it, did not have to carry it and tire his hand, it hit the target with the force of the horse's momentum, not the force of the hussar's hand. That is why it was a reliable weapon.

Still in the late 16th/ early 17th century, fighting with on horse and with a lance was dubbed in Poland as "Walczyć po Serbsku" or "Fighting the Serbian way".

The second weapon was "koncerz" after breaking the lances. It was long as well. Sabre was useful sometimes.

My ancestors were Winged Hussars. My father has one of their szablas. They both were in the first banner at Vienna 1683. I reenact a hussar. Own a full set of armor and kit. Niech żyje Polska!

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Sorry! Let's make things right! 1. Poles and Hungarians are brothers! 2. The hussars spread from Hungary during and after the Turkish-Hungarian wars. It was formed in the Balkan war books! 3. The origin of the word hussar. There are two options: A/ version: The Hungarian word "húsz" means twenty. A Hungarian noble had to equip and maintain a hussar as 20 serfs (peasants). B/ version: The Serbian-Croatian word "husa" means robbery! This refers to the fighting style, fast movement, raiding, ambushing, partisan fighting style. This often happened in the Turkish wars! 4. This is how the hussars came to Poland! 5. To this day, several hussar units in Europe bear Hungarian names: the French "Sunking", XIV. 58% of Louis's hussar officers were of Hungarian origin! The Bercsényi hussar regiment in France is 300 years old. George Washington's Hungarian hussar officer Mihály Fabriczy Kováts. He died a heroic death in the American War of Independence, leading the Hungarian-Polish hussar regiment. 6. The characteristic decoration of the hussar clothes reflects and displays the Hungarian national costume! It cannot be confused with anything!

Best cavalry in history? Laughs in Mongol horse archer that conquered the largest continuous empire ever.

Few people probably know about the fights of the Hussars :)... I can see that you don't know much about the History of Poland :) See the Fight Battle of Hods Polish Husaria defeated the Mongols, there are 100 Hussars and 300 commanded against 40,000 Mongol Hordes Do you have something to tell me? :) Battle of Hodów Please check this :) The same as Poland fought battles with the Ottoman Empire, the heavy Turkish cavalry, the best in Turkey, was crushed by the Hussars: d

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Winged hussars! 😊

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It would be more precise to write: the best breakthrough cavalry of its era. We also had "pancerni" lighter cavalry which were more numerous in the Polish army and were wonderfully versatile. To make things even more confusing, the hussars could, depending on their needs, discard heavier defensive weapons and fight in the "pancerni" style. Since then - always SI DEUS NOBISCUM QUIS CONTRA NOS.

If Napoleon had hussars at Waterloo, he would have won. His cavalry couldn't handle the English infantry.

That was very interesting! I did not know about the long hollow lance designed to out reach the pikes of the infantry! I understood that the pike formations in Britain were devastating against the cavalry of the time--but I had not heard of a solution to the problem. I'm fascinated by the hollow lances. I build hollow spruce yacht masts quite often, though nothing that narrow in proportion to it's length

Nice hussars...In the 20th century, 1920, Polish hussars defeated the Bolshevik First Horse, Budyonny's Army

They really were the very best

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Amazing quality video, keep it up!

Great video!!

there is no Best cavalry in history.

There were several more battles, e.g. after the Battle of Vienna there was the Battle of Parkany which sealed the defeat of the Ottoman Empire. In June 1694, the Battle of Hodowo took place, in which 100 hussars and 300 armored men (pancernych) repelled an attack, according to various estimates, from 25 to 70 thousand Tatars. Jan III Sobieski gave the number of 40,000 in a conversation with Mikołaj Złotnicki, which would give a ratio of forces of 100:1

which guy made the reforms, you haven't mentioned just showed his painting. Then you said that only nobles could become hussars but later you mentioned that hussars fought to become nobles... A bit of contradiction here. How can nonnobles afford such expensive equipment?

Very educational

The lances was sponsored by the elective king iirc. When they start reach too enemies lines, then the hussars stop be spread and get more closed into "knee too knee" too each other with lancer low down. Lances was supposed be hollowed so it was easier wield it when the length was insane long hence the king sponsored the lancer. The rest of the hussar equipment was the nobility had self too fund it as it was expensive. Hussar started by serbian light cavalry, the Hungarian hired them as mercenary and they as well start develop "semi-heavy" cavalry...but polish went 200% nuts and went panzar version of it. The Hussar had kind of training in peace time, there two hussar was charging against each other but last seconds they lift up lances too not hit each other, too make them more fearless in their mind as well learn how mastery the lances. The winged part, no one are 100% know if was mostly used in ceremony events, some used as well in battles. Lot's of sources from various part of kingdoms etc. One thing 100% about them, the polish Hussar was crazy and they showed prowess even Sweden had too military reform their army too counter them. The list is long, I need sleep but good video you made about winged hussar. They deserve it. * Check about the "polish thermopylae", very interesting battle. Sincerely D Duck

The wings were jet packs obviously.

Do you know anything about the Battle of Klushino 1610? Oh yes. Someone already commented on this. There, under the command of Hetman Żółkiewski, the hussars brought Russia to its knees and to this day they cannot forgive us for that. The Poles ruled on the throne of the Tsars for 2 years, but no one has ever managed to do so, Neither Napoleon nor Hitler. Putin established the holiday of recapturing the Kremlin from Polish-Lithuanian troops December 12, 2004 as National Unity Day.

Small addition: the original hussars come from the territory of the old Hungarian kingdom (as the "outline" is shown on the map). It was built on the old Hungarian cavalry traditions: they served very well in wars with their light weapons, fast, reckless actions and long raids. At that time there were no drones: they were the "eyes" of the armies/commanders. The supplies were regularly destroyed and the enemy disturbed. It is no coincidence that many other kingdoms wanted to set up such units. A good example of this is the winged hussars of our Polish brothers, who had stronger weapons and focused more on greater penetration in battles. The later excellent German light cavalry was founded by "purchasing" Hungarian hussar officers. The brain drain worked even then... 🙂

Great video, very insightful and informative ♥

Long live the Hungarian Hussars Long live the Polish Ulans Long live the Austrian Dragoons Long live the Ukrainian Cossacks And Long live the Czech Cusserais

i really enjoyed this video, i would love to see more from you

Enjoyed the video. Would love subtitles!

Koncerz was first weapon in battle after the lance broke. It was something between a lance and a sword. It was only for thrusting with triangular cross section. It worked like a rod for roasting chicken over a fire. Only used from the horseback. The sabre could be used both ways. It is considered by many as the greatest sword as it enabled the swordsman to use cuts and thrust from both Western and Eastern fencing styles due to its construction. Regards. Btw, a great content. Thank you for it!

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Great video buddy

Very well made! Cool and slow, Kings and Generals generally is too informative and fast for me, as a not native English speaker.

Using a lance effectively is not easy. A lancer with minimal experience has minimal value, but once experienced they are incredible effective - both against infantry and other cavalry. As for the 2nd long straight sword, I suspect these may have been used when the lance was broken and a 2nd stirrup to stirrup charge was required. The helmet also implies this as they seem to be similar to cuirassiers in this regard. The curved sword is most effective when fighting to one side in a loose formation. Basically what this looks like to me is a three in one cavalry, combining lancer, cuirassier and light cavalry. This would have been an incredible effective multi-purpose cavalry force.

Poland is 7 country in history won all battle do miss that Poland win so many fights by husarnia

Nice video, yes is a trouth, home of hussars is a Serbia

Of course the wings were for looks!! They're essentially the 16th/17th century equivalent of lawyer's sons, with alot of power and money to show off.

The king at 3:59 was STEPHEN BATHORY (2nd half of xvi cent) was Hungaian (Báthory István), he organiszed it from Hungarian example. Bonfini said in 1481 about the part of an army of Hungaian king Mathias: “equites levis armaturae, quos hussarones appellamus” which means: light armured cavalry called hussar. By the way the wings are emblematic I can1t see a pracrice of it. But realy looks great.

We are actually decended from the Sarmatian knights and the Amazon women, who were the first horse people. The tactics of the Hussars were the same as the Sarmatians thousands of years earlier. We Poles and western Slavs are decended from the Roxolani Sarmatians. The Hussars of Lithuania were decended from Aorsi. Those of the Capathian mountains were decended from the Lazyges Sarmatians. The Slavs south of Ukraine are decended from the Sarosi who became the Alan's Sarmatians.

thats right those were serbian cavalry men, thanks for pointing this out

hussars has never been the best cavalry in the world. ho my god that remake of history

Huszàr was originated in the Kingdom of Hungary, circa 14th century. The word "hùsz" means twenty in Hungarian. They were called huszàr, because originally they were distributed in groups of twenty horseman. Latter on this kind of light cavalry spread out to other Eastern/ central European countries.... Edit: there is a famous Hungarian film, made in the 1980s called " eighty huszars" its a film about 80 huszars who got stuck in Italy, and had to make it back to Hungary through enemy infested territory (the Austrian Hapsburgs) at the time of the 1848 European revolutions. its a good film ,I highly recommend it

Hmmm have u heard of battle od parkany?? The real result of your so called battle of Vienna?

The best cavalry in history!!! I believe the mongol cavalry under legendary Mongol general Subutai (aka Ghengis Khan dog of war) who cleaned the floor with every army all the way from China all the way to Poland and Hungary in just one campaign would have to say something about that. No cavalry has ever covered as many miles in human history, defeated so many different opponents and remained undefeated in just one military campaign. Not even Alexander the great's cavalry covered as much ground.

1:38 He is my second cousin ten times removed.

This Cavalry Look Like Me In Heaven

The winged hussar himself is great, but the organisation ?? Why not simply 10x10x10 etc., make no sense

Something more about croatian cavlary?

The winged hussars are not the best, if they were they wouldnt have been disbanded when cavalry was still an important part of the army

Every hussar regiment were founded by Hungarian nobles, even the Kovács legion of the usa. Polish was founded by Báthori István. Also, hungary is not balkans.Furthermore if you make a histroical video use historical borders. The leopard skin mantle is the symbol of nobility in hungary dating back to the honfoglalás- Wings are the same reason Delis has wings. Hunnic steppe tradition.

Poles with the Balls !

And then the Winged hussars arrived

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What do you think of the role of the dragoons as dismounted firearm cavalry for the century afterward?

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thank God for Poland save Europe from the Turks!

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They were one of the most successful military organizations in history. Never loosening a battle in 125years , always against vastly overwhelming odds. Sometimes they would impale 2or 3 men on one Lance. The record is 5 turks on one Lance. They also carried war hammers, and daggers.

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Thisis so eurotrash. The Ottomans had been at war with Austria for the last century.Their attack on Xienna was not a westward expansin as much as an attempt to take their rival's main city...

Battle of Vienna - the battle that started collapse of Ottoman Empire, because from this point Turks started to loose more and more territory.

The best cavalry in history was the Macedonian Companion cavalry led by Alexander the Great. The 2nd best was the Mongolian cavalry under Gekas Khan.

They didn't come from Serbia which at that time were under Ottomans. You have some Serbians incorporate in Hungarian units same as Croatian units. Hussars do come from Hungary even lot of units coming from Croatia to as that time were one country.

Koncerz is an armor piercing weapon. Using it you just punch through the ennemy armor like through butter. It has the chappe of the "poinson" used by metals smith to punch holes in metal sheets.

Mongol nomads are raised on horseback. The world has never seen better cavalry than Mongol riders.

Depending on where the lance broke, it was possible for them to be used to attack 2 or even 3 targets before it had to be discarded.

Thanks I learned about hollow lances. Curious whether the origins of the riding style may have been a legacy of the mongols who perfected fighting on horseback in an earlier age. The hussars seem like an upgrade to the composite bow on horseback.

Serbian hussars had wings originally and trained Polish at begging.

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I'm wondering why they'd charge half way across the battlefield (though I might steal it for my next total war battle). I'm imagining a particularly large battlefield and them getting more tired than they need to. Am I missing something?

great cavalry but it aint the best..alexander companions and the parthian/sassanids cataphracts are the best ever.

They were not 😅

They are light cavalry. Their tactic is surprise. Be there where you expect them the liste, or not at all. No surprise (relatively), no victory. In Vienna they arrive at a punkt where both sides are exausted. It is the end for Vienna. But it is the end for the Ottoman. Even victorious they will not have gone father. A Pyrrus victory. The Hussars arrived at the perfect time, when they where the list expected. They charged immediately, the Ottoman had no time to fully deploy.

The Mongols had the best cavalry 🇲🇳

They were amazing. But the Mongols were the best cavalry in history.

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best cavalry in history? roman cataphracts and egyptian mamelukes would like a word with you....

Nice video but I guess Turks, Mongols and Iranians got the best cavalry

Lies Frech Gendarmes were better

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