1 Study Source A. It was taken in 1914. How likely would it have been that these soldiers would ever be in a cavalry charge?
There is a common perception that the use of the machine gun and massed artillery in the First World War meant the end of cavalry as an offensive weapon and that generals who refused to anticipate this were outmoded and out of touch. Haig has been mocked for hoping for a decisive cavalry breakthrough at the Battle of the Somme in July 1916. However, the assertion that military advances in the run up to the First World War made cavalry a redundant force has been challenged by the evidence, which shows that there were still occasions, even in 1918, when they were used.
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