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Ronald S. Love, "All the King's Horsemen": The Equestrian Army of Henri IV, 1585-1598
(The Sixteenth Century Journal, Vol. 22, No. 3 (Autumn, 1991), pp. 510-533)

Henri IV's cavalry tactics, such as the reiter-style formation in depth (ie in squadrons not 'en haie'), the charge home at a gallop with the sword alone (ie with the speed and shock value of the heavily armored lancer), the use of Commanded Arquebusers and mounted Arquebuisers, etc. At the battle of Ivry, he "also ordered the 250 Reiters in his pay to dispense with the caracole tactic and to charge with the rest of his cavalry."

(in free access for reading, in English)

Stardona wrote: ↑Thu Apr 09, 2020 6:39 pm Interesting.Thank you for sharing

You're welcome
Fr. Chauviré (along with his sources in bibliography) is interesting to read as he tries to reassess the impact of the non-light cavalry on the battlefield of the 16-17th centuries, an impact that might have been sometimes underestimated by some Historians.

Rene Chartrand, The Armies and Wars of the Sun King 1643-1715 :
- Volume 1: The Guard of Louis XIV
- Volume 2: The Infantry of Louis XIV
- Volume 3: 1685-1697 Campaigns, The Line Cavalry, Dragoons and the Irish Wild Geese (available on 1 July 2020 ?)
- Volume 4: The War of the Spanish Succession, Artillery, Engineers and Militias (available later)

The Chronicles of an Old Campaigner 1692-1717 are the recollections of a French officer.

English translation https://archive.org/details/chronicleso ... t/mode/2up

Original French version https://archive.org/details/memoiresdem ... 1/mode/2up

The Century of the Soldier 1618-1721 series seems very good (even though I know only 2 books + an author of this series).

Athos1660 wrote: ↑Wed Jun 10, 2020 1:53 pm Rene Chartrand, The Armies and Wars of the Sun King 1643-1715, Volume 3 : 1685-1697 Campaigns, The Line Cavalry, Dragoons and the Irish Wild Geese (available on 1 July ?)

This book is out now (with a nice discount atm).
(I haven’t had the opportunity to have a look at it yet)

Athos1660 wrote: ↑Mon Nov 25, 2019 6:26 pm Museum of the Army, Invalides (France), rooms of artillery models, historical figurines (and musical instruments)
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it's very interesting, thanks for sharing!

I recently saw Cyrano de Bergerac 1990 movie again : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyrano_de ... 1990_film)

Apart from a great text and actors' performances, this film is well worth seeing for the costumes and weapons (rapiers, pikes, muskets, halberds…) at the end of the TYW. A few scenes of a skirmish supposed to take place during the siege of Arras (1640) are also shown with armoured cavalrymen and pikemen, Pike and Shot units, the storming of a field fortification, a cannonade… Even a caracole (by file) by the Spanish cavalry shooting at the defenders of the FF can be glimpsed (Interesting...).

(The second part of the movie (14 years after Arras) shows fashion in the 1670’s, instead of that in the 1650-60’s.)

Fr. Chauviré, The New Knights, The Development of Cavalry in Western Europe, 1562-1700
is about to be released (on 31 July).

Athos1660 wrote: ↑Sun Jan 12, 2020 3:04 pm S. Thion, French Armies of the Thirty Years War, 2013, p. 174

extract

I've just noticed Stephane Thion had re-published his book at Helion&Company : https://www.helion.co.uk/military-histo ... 18-48-.php

I have an older version from LRT Editions in 2008 (in French). Looking at the web site, the Helion&Company version seems to have much more illustrations (as often ?). But I don't know of any other difference.

From the text I read, the book will provide an English translation of primary sources in French and lots of factual details on units (names, numbers, leaders...), on battles, etc., as you can see :


(screenshot from the older version in English)

Less easily readable than Alexandre Dumas' Three Musketeers, but useful for wargaming