The tactic of husaria included a special kind of charge, which proved to be decisive in many battles won by Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. By concentrating the formation at the last, crucial moment before crushing the enemy, it was able to completely break the enemy lines, while still being able to change formation or direction even a short ...

The Polish husaria did carry wings -- as can be seen here or here. Their purpose has been debated with no clear answer. What I want to know is was there an evolution in the wings design or just one type? If the former, does the evolution offers a clue as to what their purpose was? If the latter, what event(s) prompted the adoption?

May 26, 2017 · Husaria - Jerzy Cichowski, Andrzej Szulczyński as well as Description de l'Vkranie depvis les confins de la Moscovie jvsqu'avx limites de la Transylvanie - Guillaume Levasseur de Beauplan Of course the Batory reforms weren't instantaneous, but starting with 1577 and with Muscovite campaigns of 1579-81, Polish Hussars were known to be almost ...

But the usage of term "hussars" as heavy cavalry is limited only to these countries. In Polish language even the word used for the heavy-cavalry-hussars ("husaria", "husarze") is different than the light-cavalry-hussar ("huzarzy"). For the rest of the Europe, the hussars were the light cavalry.