The Only Time in History When Men on Horseback Captured a Fleet of Ships
The French Revolutionary Wars lasted a decade, but their strangest moment may have lasted just a few days.
The Battle of Texel remains the only instance in history where a cavalry troop — horse-riding soldiers — captured a fleet of ships. It happened on this day in 1795, though it wasn’t exactly a battle. The winter of 1794-1795 was extremely cold in Holland, and when a storm rolled in, a Dutch fleet anchored in the strait of Marsdiep tried to shelter by Texel Island until the storm blew over, but then found themselves iced in, writes author David Blackmore. At the time, the French were fighting against the Dutch Republic as well as alongside revolutionaries within the Netherlands who supported the ideas of the French Revolution.Continue Reading (2 minute read)
“Colonel, you just got promoted.”
“To what?”
“Rear admiral.”
Soldiers moving on horseback.
But fighting dismounted, like regular infantry.
Imagine that.
Imagine dragoons.
Ships maybe, but Jose Antonio Paez captured a bunch of boats on the Apure River via cavalry charge as well during the Venezuelan war of Independence, and those weren’t frozen in.
The only time in *recorded* history
You mean to tell me that all those ships that disappeared in the Bermuda Triangle were not because of Atlanteans on the back of sea horses?
so Rise of Skywalker wasn’t making everything up!
For another in-depth and thoroughly researched account ,see this additional link: [https://www.napoleon-series.org/military-info/battles/1795/c\_jonge.html](https://www.napoleon-series.org/military-info/battles/1795/c_jonge.html)
Only time so far in history. Calvary will make a comeback just you watch!
This is common in aoe2
“Another relic of Civilization was the nature of combat where a military unit from earlier civilization periods could remain in play through modern times, gaining combat bonuses due to veteran proficiency, leading to these primitive units easily beating out modern technology against all common sense, with the common example of a veteran phalanx unit able to fend off a battleship. “
Similar success was the capture of Stettin fortress by light cavalry, without any artillery support.
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capitulation\_of\_Stettin](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capitulation_of_Stettin)