@PugJesusM to HistoryPornEnglish • 1 year agoImperial German cavalryman with lance and gas mask, WW1, 1918imagemessage-square9arrow-up187arrow-down10
arrow-up187arrow-down1imageImperial German cavalryman with lance and gas mask, WW1, 1918@PugJesusM to HistoryPornEnglish • 1 year agomessage-square9
minus-squarePugJesusMlinkfedilink10•1 year agoThe lance is actually interesting too - it’s not traditional, not a wooden pole with a metal head. It’s all-metal - a hollow tube of rolled steel.
minus-square@SalamendaciouslinkEnglish6•1 year agoIt’s wild to think that a soldier with a javelin or spear on horseback was an incredibly important component of warfare for thousands of years and it all ended, historically speaking, 5 seconds ago.
A horse, a lance, and a gas mask? WW1 was crazy!
The lance is actually interesting too - it’s not traditional, not a wooden pole with a metal head. It’s all-metal - a hollow tube of rolled steel.
It’s wild to think that a soldier with a javelin or spear on horseback was an incredibly important component of warfare for thousands of years and it all ended, historically speaking, 5 seconds ago.