Quote Originally Posted by William F. Owen View Post
Actually British Cavalry were always screwing up. This was just the best known, worst case.
I was having a conversation with the Canadian LNO here at Leavenworth. Being somewhat a fan of cavalry, we discussed approaches for awhile. One salient observation stuck with me:

"Cavalry's a great combat arm. But when cavalry guys screw up, they really screw up."

True.