Reiter - Wikipedia
WEBIn the 16th century and up to about 1620, Reiters often formed up in deep blocks and used their firearms in a caracole attack in the hopes of disordering enemy infantry before charging home and engaging in hand-to-hand combat.
Harquebusier - Wikipedia
WEBIn the late 16th century and into the first decades of the following century the harquebusier was envisioned, like the similar and earlier petronel, as a support for more heavily-armoured cavalrymen such as the demi-lancer, or pistol-armed cavalry – the cuirassier and reiter.
Reiter - Military Wiki | Fandom
WEBIn the 16th century and up to about 1620, Reiters often formed up in deep blocks and used their firearms in a caracole attack in the hopes of disordering the enemy infantry before charging home and engaging in hand-to-hand combat.
Renaissance warfare: a military revolution – The Past
WEBMar 7, 2022 · By the mid 16th century, the battlefield had been transformed. States that retained a conservative medieval way of war based on crude shock action – like the Scots – succumbed to new professional armies with a mix of heavy and light horse, pikemen and arquebusiers, and a growing number of cannon.
Firearms in the Middle Ages – Did Knights Use Guns?
WEBSep 9, 2022 · While not being knights in the sense of members of nobility these mounted German Reiter still used plate armor that was also used by knights. So heavily armored early modern cavalrymen were armored like late medieval knights and equipped with firearms (pistols).
Reiters - Weapons and Warfare
WEBMar 31, 2017 · Towards the end of the sixteenth century, heavily armoured cavalrymen stopped using horse-armour, and reduced their own, becoming cuirassiers. The tactics of the reiters were adopted by all cavalry forces.
Cuirassier - Wikipedia
WEBCuirassiers first appeared in mid-to-late 16th century Europe as a result of armoured cavalry, such as men-at-arms and demi-lancers discarding their lances and adopting pistols as their primary weapon. [2]
Reiter - Wikiwand articles
WEBReiter or Schwarze Reiter ("black riders", anglicized swart reiters) were a type of cavalry in 16th to 17th century Central Europe including Holy Roman Empire, Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth, Tsardom of Russia, and others.
The Armored Horse in Europe, 1480–1620
WEBPlacing these objects in context is an essay tracing the history of European horse armor from its revival in the twelfth century (after its disappearance with the fall of Rome) through its flowering in the Renaissance to its eventual obsolescence in the early 1600s.
When was the earliest record of the Reiter? : r/AskHistorians - Reddit
WEBDec 8, 2017 · Reiter as in cavalry with metal armor armed with pistols. I know that they emerged at the 16th century, so I am hoping for answers specific to the decade or year.