The Household Cavalry - Why? :)

JessandCharlie said:
Oh :( I was under the impression that it was so the whole cavalry could hide too, not so the human half could hide and the horse half could be shields.


That is shameful :(
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War is shameful :(
Soldiers dying in afganistan because they don't have the right armoured trucks is shameful :(
20% of the male population of GB dying in the first world war is shameful.

I could go on.

Unfortunatly war is a sad fact of life, just think one of those brave horses may have saved the life of several fathers/sons/husbands/friends.

I personally love the cavalry display at Olympia, I find it very moving!
 
hey, please don't start any wars on my post!! :)

I thought the Cavalry were great though! I loved the bit where they all did a double cross over thingy in the middle. (that's a technical term right there y'know) Didn't they have some music from Pirates of the Caribbean as well?
 
The household cavalry display makes me feel very patriotic!! I love it... though i watched on the wednesday and lots of the horses were looking stiff and sore :( I wish it wasnt the case cos i loved the display and why they do it! It does make me sad about using the horses as shields. I think if someone pointed a gun at my horses id throw myself in as the shield....:/
 
Yuletide_Gal said:
Then why is it whenever NP posts, you're not far behind? Pretty chummy for someone who seems to hate her!
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I wrote a long and witty reply, but my poor little laptop got all hot and bothered and shut down, and now I have gone off the boil, so all I will say now is
I can't get that close behind NP because you have you nose well and truly stuck up where the sun don't shine, Merry Christmas.
 
I love watching the Household Cavelry displays when some kind person puts them up on Youtube (hint hint ;) ) as they're not shown here :(

The orgins of the 'lying down' manouver are very sad and unfortunate, but I think it makes parades/performance like this all the more important 'leste we forget!'

They always make me think of this song from when I was knee high to a grasshopper: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HmL3m2zcoOI

War is despicable and its sad that grown men are incapable of finding a better solution to problems than a fist fight.
 
Sad to think horses lost their lives because of something we as humans choose to do. They don't get a choice in the matter.
Like someone said at least it doesn't happen now.
 
It is my understanding that a horse makes a big silhouette so if you want to ambush your enemy you need to teach your horse to lie down. It wasn't just to use the horse as a shield.
 
firewell said:
War is shameful :(
Soldiers dying in afganistan because they don't have the right armoured trucks is shameful :(
20% of the male population of GB dying in the first world war is shameful.

I could go on.

Unfortunately war is a sad fact of life, just think one of those brave horses may have saved the life of several fathers/sons/husbands/friends.

I personally love the cavalry display at Olympia, I find it very moving!
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Don't get me wrong! I love the display too, even the horses that don't lie down ;)

The piece of music was from Gladiator and Pirates of the Caribbean, same bit used for both if I remember rightly, and yes, there was another piece of music by Brian Adams, which was in Spirit :D
 
Think back 100 years and more (OK there were trains and cars just beginning) but up to this century horses were just a means of transport. End of story. Until a train came along the fastest a man could travel was as fast as a horse could go. So a cavalary horse was a tool to be used for fighting wars. No doubt there were men who loved their horses and looked after them well, but in the overall picture they were more expendable than men.

Still I love to see the displays, just wonderful. I saw one display at the Royal Welsh this year, but can't remember whether it was the Kings Troop or Household Cavalry and there were about 1/3 of female soldiers.
 
Janette said:
And there was me thinking the nice, fit young men in tight trousers were just giving the poor horses a rest, :D
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Lol!!
Yeah that's the more believable reasoning I reckon :-p

Tho now I think about it, the lying down thing makes perfect sense.

I wonder how many cavalry men lost their horses that way...
I'll bet most (if not all) of them were heartbroken- they usually grew really attached :-(
 
Llewellyn said:
War Studies graduate -smiles -bites tongue. :p
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That sounds amazing, is the focus on historical or modern warfare (or both)? Can I be a bit nosy and ask where you studied it? I find reading about warfare really interesting. Yes, some of it is sad or shameful, but other parts are inspirational and the courage and resourcefulness of men, women and even children under circumstances we can barely imagine is truly incredible. I visited Yad Veshem a few years ago and though it is obviously a Holocaust museum rather than warfare generally, and the exhibits reflect this, some of the things accomplished by apparently ordinary people were amazing. One Jewish woman, now an old lady, tells her account of when the Nazis came to get her family - she was a little girl at the time - and as they walked down the stairs, the door of the apartment below opened and she was pulled inside. The family hid her for the duration of the war, despite frequent searches by Nazi officials and soldiers looking for her, including in a drawer under their baby's crib. They shared their rations with her and treated her as their own - she always wondered why they did it, when they had so much to lose personally if they were caught. This is just one of many such stories!

Bit of a thread hijack... :D
 
Is there any iplayer or other online coverage of this? I missed it on tv, but had a bit of a look but can't find anything on the internet!
 
Fadedv- It was in a bit of everything really from naval tactics 1800-present to genocide, was such an interesting course but avoided social history mainly did war studies modules and politics (middle east, russia etc.) Studied at Wolverhampton which has gone downhill a bit in the last year and a half they seem to think history and war studies is the same thing. Despite the fact most history students walk out of war studies lecture a bit too frank for them I think.

I was the only girl of 40ish blokes so not a lot of sentimental feeling in the room, but does put life in perspective.

If you want to know why war still happens read clauswitz.

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