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A charge is an offensive maneuver in battle in which combatants advance towards their enemy at their best speed in an attempt to engage in a decisive close combat. The charge is the dominant shock attack and has been the key tactic and decisive moment of many battles
The Lance is a type of pole weapon commonly used during classical and medieval warfare for cavalry charges. Unlike the javelin or pike, the lance was unsuited for throwing or for repeated thrusting.
Charging with the Couched Lance: The most famous tactic associated with the lance was the cavalry charge with the lance “couched” under the arm. The rider would gallop towards the enemy lines, using the horse’s momentum and the weapon’s weight to strike a powerful blow.
The lance was usually employed in initial charges in close formation, with sabers being used in the melee that followed. The Crimean War saw the use of the lance in the Charge of the Light Brigade. One of the four British regiments involved in the charge, plus the Russian Cossacks who counter-attacked, were armed with this weapon.
The medieval French poem Cligés of about 1176 includes a vivid description of what it was like to charge with a lance: Our hero “braces himself firmly in the stirrups and goes to strike him at full gallop so that despite himself his opponent vacated the saddlebows”. We also know that the jousters could use several lances over the course of ...
