The Polish cavalrymen were eager to enter combat. They were armed with rifles, sabres, and lances. The memories of the Winged Hussars that expelled the Turkish invaders from Europe in the late 1600s inspired the men to charge against a different type of enemy: German infantrymen from the Wehrmacht. But there was one thing the Turkish did not have three centuries earlier: tanks.
When the courageous Polish cavalry encountered the imposing Nazi panzers on the first day of the invasion near Mokra and Krojanty in 1939, their selfless moves echoed through history in the form of romanticized myths. Yet, while the incidents were manipulated by the enemy for propaganda purposes, the contribution of the mounted forces to the overall Allied effort was paramount.
Indeed, it was the valiant Polish cavalry that conducted the last successful mounted charge in history near the town of Schoenfeld, where their unwavering determination ignited a fierce blaze of defiance against the relentless backdrop of enemy tanks…
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