Is the first visually recorded use of anti-cavalry defences on the Bayeux Tapestry?
Upvote:2
Following the suggestions in the comments, I found these images where infantry seem to be holding their own against cavalry.
This photo is from https://www.amnh.org/exhibitions/horse/how-we-shaped-horses-how-horses-shaped-us/warfare/riding-into-battles/
There's also this.
This photo is from http://slideplayer.com/slide/5353886/17/images/6/Asclepiodotus+(5.1):+The+Macedonian+bronze+shield+of+eight+palms%E2%80%99+width+and+not+too+concave+..jpg
:+The+Macedonian+bronze+shield+of+eight+palms%E2%80%99+width+and+not+too+concave+..jpg){kind=link}
More post
- 📝 What is the earliest mention of an estimate of 71% water (or 70.8%) / 29% land (or 29.2%)?
- 📝 What is the historical explanation behind the name of the French village Ramatuelle?
- 📝 Can you please help identify this military uniform (1700's)?
- 📝 Do Columbus' letters reveal that he was a Marrano?
- 📝 Why did Kennedy refuse any military action in Laos at first and then decide otherwise by sending combat troops?
- 📝 Why wasn't there more resistance to the French revolution by the army?
- 📝 What was the legal framework in Ancient India?
- 📝 For who or what was Cojo Creek named?
- 📝 Can you help me identify this Italian Royal Army Uniform?
- 📝 Why does the Central Treaty Organization include the word "central"?
- 📝 Which college president nearly finished a book in 1914 that argued that there would be no more wars?
- 📝 Did the Soviet Union know when DEFCON levels changed?
- 📝 What percentage of people were acquitted in "Stalin's trials"
- 📝 When have salaries been paid in kind, not cash?
- 📝 Why did relations between the USA and the USSR break down in 1945?
- 📝 Which trade route took the longest (in time) to travel?
- 📝 How did early adopters of the automobile fill up their cars?
- 📝 Did Palmerston contribute to Louis Philippe's downfall?
- 📝 When was the weekend changed in Jordan?
- 📝 What were the effects of the Black Death in the Muslim world?
- 📝 Was Heinrich Himmler's death a suicide?
- 📝 Are "I, II, III, ..." versions of archaeological versioning of layers unique to Troy?
- 📝 Was Red Orchestra led by Jews?
- 📝 Are there any examples of two medieval kingdoms trying to unify but eventually failing to do so?
- 📝 Was the 1852 Richard/Bolcoff divorce the first one in California?
- 📝 When did the word "Holodomor" appear?
- 📝 How aware were the latter Greek-speaking Romans (ERE: Byzantines) of the early history of Rome?
- 📝 What toilet facilities were available to commoners in the middle ages?
- 📝 Reconstructing historic tide tables
- 📝 During World War II, in the U.S., were diapers available?
Source: stackoverflow.com
Search Posts
Related post
- 📝 Is the first visually recorded use of anti-cavalry defences on the Bayeux Tapestry?
- 📝 What was the first recorded use of Aerial Weapons in warfare?
- 📝 What is the first recorded dog name?
- 📝 What is the first horse name recorded in history?
- 📝 What / When was the first use of concentration camps in history?
- 📝 What tactical situations made the use of traditional horse cavalry effective in World War II?
- 📝 When people use spears to fight cavalry do infantry stab the horse or the rider?
- 📝 What is the first recorded instance of jet lag?
- 📝 What is the first recorded contact with Taiwan by Europeans?
- 📝 Who was the first military force to use teppo (guns) in mass battles during the Sengoku-jidai?
- 📝 Were the Nazis the first to use phenol as a means of execution?
- 📝 What was the first recorded instance of sex or violence being inappropriate for children to see?
- 📝 The first use of submarines, and the appearance of "modern" submarines
- 📝 When was the first recorded example of a race competition in human history?
- 📝 What was the first confirmed use of black powder to blow stuff up in war (in China and in Europe)?
- 📝 First recorded use of a traditional tombstone?
- 📝 Were cavalry used in the First World War?
- 📝 What was the first recorded instance of burning a city or village in war?
- 📝 What was the first assassination/murder recorded on film?
- 📝 What was the first college in an English-speaking country to use Latin in their motto?
- 📝 What was the first recorded non-violent toppling of a dictator?
- 📝 Were Rosa Parks and Freedom Riders the first ones to use a bus to protest/change?
- 📝 When is the first recorded plague?
- 📝 When & what are the first recorded peacetime uses of soldiers?
- 📝 When is the first recorded instance of someone dying for a principle?
- 📝 What was the first recorded reference to the fact that the sun rises and sets at different times across the Earth?
- 📝 Why does Japan use the same type of AC power outlet as the US?
- 📝 Why did the Germans use the Enigma machine rather than the far superior "Lorenz" cipher machine?
- 📝 Why did Hitler not order the use of poison gas in combat?
- 📝 Where would the first nuke have been dropped in Germany?