The Cavalry Swordsman - Alfred Hutton - 1867
Posted: 02 Dec 2013 14:35hear hearHutton (p23) wrote:I strongly recommend that masks should be supplied for the horses; the Household Brigade, I understand, use them ...
also contains an interesting approach to defending the nearside hind which Hutton attributes to Sikhs and Afghans.
we can gauge somewhat the degree of training which Hutton expected of a remount, as he expects in several places that the horse (and rider!) can manage a 180 degree half pirouette, but doesn't make any allowance for the circular fight:
Hutton (p19) wrote:On horseback there are two kinds of attack:—viz., the attack direct, when the opponents meet face to face ; and the attack in pursuit, when one, by actually chasing the other, attacks him in rear, or by a skillful manoeuvre of his horse places himself in that position...
