CONTENTS. 



XV 



CHAPTER Xril. 

 Russian Cavalry at this Period — Cossacks 



273 



First mention oE Cossacks — Ploskina — Zaporog Cossacks — Cossacks paid 

 no taxes — Their aruiament — Great value for outpost duty. 



CHAPTER XIV. 



French Cavalry — Campaigns of Conde, Turenne & Luxembourg 276 



Section I. — Organization of Cavalnj under Louis XIV., Armament and 



Equipment. 



Mousquetaires — Mounted grenadiers — Gendarmes — Light-horse of the 

 guard — Carabineers — Dragoons — Hussars — Charges made at the trof. 

 — Formation of cavahy in three ranks— Conde — His great abihty — 

 Battle of Rocroy — Skilful use of cavalry — Battle of Nordlingen — 

 Battle of Junes — Skilfrl adaptation of plan to the nature of the 

 ground — Battle of Zintzheim — Another instance — Marshal Luxembourg 

 — Battle of Fleurus — Combat of Leuze — Action at Neerwinden. 



CHAPTER XV. 



MoNTEcucuLi — German Cavalry — The Battle of St. Gothard, 

 1664 



289 



Memoirs of Montecuculi — System of formation of infantry and cavalry in 

 Germany — Cavalry divided into cuirassiers and light cavalry — Their 

 arms — Montecuculi's views on the lance — On dragoons — Montecuculi 

 not a cavalry officer — His cavalry not so eflBcient as in preceding 

 generations — Battle of St. Gothard, 1664 — Heavy and slow tactics of 

 Montecuculi in this battle. 



CHAPTER XVL 



Early Part of Eighteenth Century. -Campaigns of Marlborough 

 AND Prince Eugene 292 



Battle of Hochstadt or Blenheim — Decided by cavalry — Skilful dispositions 

 of Marlborough — Comments on the cavalry action — Battle of Ramilies 

 — Also won by cavalry— Battle of Mnlplaquet — ^Charge of cavalry 

 £ gainst entrenchments — Passage of the lines of tlie Mehaigne in 1705 

 - TTse of cavalry in this affair — Passage of lines of Bouchain in 1711 

 — i.dttle of Almanza. 



CHAPTER XVIL 



Charles xii. and His Cavalry. — Battle of Pultowa .... 300 



Extraordinary character of Charles XIL— His wonderful energy — His 

 reforms in the cavalry service — His pursuit of the Saxons under 

 Schulenberg— Rapid manoeuvres of cavalry under Charles XH. — 

 Battle of Pultowa — Skilful arrangements of Peter the Great— Line of 

 battle strengthened with redoubts — Defeat of Charles— Vigorous pur- 

 suit of debris of Swedish army by cavalry and infantry carried en 

 croupe. 



