The Polish Winged Hussars are among the greatest cavalry ... lances alone either as they also carried weapons like a koncerz (sword), szabla (sabre), nadziak (war hammer), and later when firearms ...

Firearms instantaneously made arrows obsolete and swords pointless -- if you can ... victory when faced with 62-to-1 odds? The Polish Winged Hussars. A 400-strong Hussar unit was being attacked ...

curved sword, wolf fur draped across his shoulder and wings made of simulated eagle feathers. He portrays a Polish hussar, a fighting horseman from 1575 to 1700. During a recent tour of Poland ...

After the lances broke, they’d use their swords or pistols to fight ... an ignoble fact which proved highly detrimental to the morale of the Polish troops, including the hussars. After the war, the ...

The Polish cavalry called the hussars or ‘winged horsemen’ were amongst the deadliest ... Roch then made for the head of Charles Gustav, had his sword raised; the Swedes were weak from terror, for ...