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M182 - Winged hussars

ref. EK castings figurine M182 Polish winged hussars

EK Castings M182 - Winged hussars - Poland - 1605-16
 
Luxurious "court banner" was the escort of the king. On a colorful canvas, the so-called "Stockholm rollout", depicts the ceremonial entry of King Sigismund III Vasa and Queen Constance of Austria in Krakow in 1605. Division of banners, the distinction between the subject of the equipment, were a magnificent sight. This hussar dressed in chain mail, a segmented steel breastplate and helmet with a white feather Shishak. The skin of a black panther decorated with silver stars. On the feet of blue-fitting breeches and yellow boots with silver spurs. Saber and Koncar in black with gold trim sheath. Red pikestaff decorated with gold pattern and praporets is divided into two parts - red top, yellow bottom. Horse red hat with silver and red seat with gold trim. Wing up black feathers inserted in black, with silver ornaments bar, attached to the back of the pommel of the saddle slightly to the left, so as not to interfere with the actions of a pike.
 
Established around 1500 the Polish-Lithuanian "winged" hussars reached its heyday in the first half of the 17th century, when it successfully combining the quality of the eastern (Turkish-Tatar) cavalry with the traditions of Western European chivalry, gained fame the best cavalry of the Christian world.
 

Battles involving the Polish Hussars, or Winged Hussars, were never lost for 125 years (1500-1625). They surmounted all odds, even when fighting enemies outnumbering them five to one.

 
They were one of the main types of the cavalry in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth between the 16th and 18th centuries. When this cavalry type was first introduced by the Serbian and Hungarian mercenary horsemen at the beginning of the 16th century, they served as light cavalry banners in the Polish army; by the second half of the 16th century and after Stephen Báthory's reforms, hussars had been transformed into heavily armored shock cavalry. Until the reforms of the 1770s, the husaria banners were considered the elite of the Polish cavalry.
 
Source: Wikipedia
 
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