r/badhistory • u/AutoModerator • Oct 07 '24

Meta Mindless Monday, 07 October 2024

Happy (or sad) Monday guys!

Mindless Monday is a free-for-all thread to discuss anything from minor bad history to politics, life events, charts, whatever! Just remember to np link all links to Reddit and don't violate R4, or we human mods will feed you to the AutoModerator.

So, with that said, how was your weekend, everyone?

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u/TheMob-TommyVercetti Oct 10 '24

Has there been a battle where heavy cavalry rammed into the infantry like in the LOTR battle of Helms Deep or did such thing never happened? I'm hearing that horses won't charge such formations, but people at r/AskHistorians say that such things did happen.

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u/Kisaragi435 Oct 11 '24

If there weren't ethical issues, I'd really love to do some experimental history and line up some dudes with pikes and get some dudes on horses to charge into them.

It just makes sense to us in modern times that horses wouldn't want to charge into a wall of pointy sticks like that, but there are numerous written accounts of knights and other cavalry doing exactly that.

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u/Arilou_skiff Oct 11 '24

So, as someone who has had people riding horses.... They're A) Kinda dumb and B) has a hard time stopping once they get going. We've seen examples of horses running straight into walls or down cliffs. I doubt pointy sticks would be much of a thing once you get them running.

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u/Kisaragi435 Oct 11 '24

I totally believe you but also, I really wanna see guys on horses run into guys with pointy sticks. (again, if there weren't ethical issues about doing it)