A GERMAN NEWSPAPER ON ENGLISH CAVALRY.

Te Aroha News, Volume I, Issue 33, 19 January 1884, Page 7

A GERMAN NEWSPAPER ON ENGLISH CAVALRY.

inTms German official tuilittuy newspaper, in discussing the subject of the mounted Efantry in the, English army, relates how hngland, induced by lite small numbers of her cavalry in proportion to her infantry. las used mounted infantry in long wait?. t is pointed out that the chief disadvantages of. the system — namely, the l>ad riding of infantry men and the defective training of the officers — might be remedied by ordeiing infantry officers and men into cavalry regiments stationed near them. After quoting Lord Wolseley's exhoitatinn that every cavalry officer must renumber the Old English saying. " Commit your soul to God and eh.irge home," the writer says :—lt: — It must be admitted that in the late wars the English cavalry, like the German, ha* shown no unwillingness to attack. On the contrary, it has evinced a decided inclination to do m>, sometime bordering on rashness. Since the victory of Waterloo, won by the allied forces of Engl.md and Prussia, the English cavalry has had many a hard battle to fight in India, not to mention the death ride of the Light Brigade, the attack of thf Heavy Dragoons at Balaclava, that of the Guards at Kassnssin, and their pursuit of the Egyptains after the victory at Tel el-Kolrir. Fortunately for the English cavalry, the Army to which it belongs is commanded by tho Duke of Cambridge, who utterly rejects the idea of turning any of the few • Britsh cavalry regiments into dragoon regiments, after the Russian model, and is a faithful adherent of the old school, which finds its ; ideal in Ziethen.M