Professor Devereaux: Someone linked an article you wrote on horse Cavalry charge tactics on Reddit's r/badhistory. As a longtime rider and equestrian myself - trained in USPC, Pony Clubs - I wanted to ask, do you have practical horsemanship, riding, and/or Cavalry experience?
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...tactics in fencing and even the handling of cavalry all got built on that assumption that they were doing it how it had always been done. Again that is not to say experience with horses is useless, but that it is not the only kind of evidence or even necessarily the best kind
Consider, after all, sport rapier and sabre fencing can make all of the same claims of lineage that modern equestrianism can. They too are modern sport variants inspired by military arts which passed out of common military use in the first decades of the 20th century.
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But compare them to the actual late medieval treatises and you realize that modern sport and ancient martial art do not necessarily coincide.
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And of course sabre fencing as taught in 1910 as a combat art for officers and cavalrymen was not the same as fencing as learned by a 15th century man-at-arms.
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