La cavalerie française en 1917 : quelle élasticité ?

This paper examines the many transformations of the French cavalry during the Great War, focusing on the creation of dismounted units. While keeping a mounted force to be used as soon as a breakthrough would be created, the cavalry had to give up horses and manpower to other arms and services while...

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מחבר ראשי: Bourcart, Jean
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יצא לאור: 2017
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spelling cairn-RHA_288_0005RHARevue Historique des Armées https://shs.cairn.info/revue-historique-des-armees-2017-3-page-5?lang=fr https://doi.org/10.3917/rha.288.0005 La cavalerie française en 1917 : quelle élasticité ? Bourcart, Jean2017 fre Revue Historique des Armées | 288 | 3 | 2017-01-03 | p. 5-14 | 0035-3299 RHA_28819 This paper examines the many transformations of the French cavalry during the Great War, focusing on the creation of dismounted units. While keeping a mounted force to be used as soon as a breakthrough would be created, the cavalry had to give up horses and manpower to other arms and services while taking his share of trench combat. As dismounted combat became the norm, new weapons and tactics were adopted, and ultimately two divisions were created to fight as infantry.Cairn restricted access
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description This paper examines the many transformations of the French cavalry during the Great War, focusing on the creation of dismounted units. While keeping a mounted force to be used as soon as a breakthrough would be created, the cavalry had to give up horses and manpower to other arms and services while taking his share of trench combat. As dismounted combat became the norm, new weapons and tactics were adopted, and ultimately two divisions were created to fight as infantry.
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title La cavalerie française en 1917 : quelle élasticité ?
title_short La cavalerie française en 1917 : quelle élasticité ?
title_full La cavalerie française en 1917 : quelle élasticité ?
title_fullStr La cavalerie française en 1917 : quelle élasticité ?
title_full_unstemmed La cavalerie française en 1917 : quelle élasticité ?
title_sort la cavalerie française en 1917 : quelle élasticité ?
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