[Sca-cooks] Horse Breeding OT But!... I know someone willknowthe answer...
Daniel & Elizabeth Phelps
dephelps at embarqmail.com
Fri Dec 25 01:41:29 PST 2009
Was written:
...horses for both light and heavy cavalry. Um...would
> the light cavalry horses, bearing, I presume, horse archers or, at least,
> not massively armored troops, be lighter?
>
You are starting to get out of period and into Restoration, Regency,
Napoleonic and even Victorian era stuff. If so you might want to include
artillery horses of which there were at least two varieties if I read my
histories correctly. What surprises me is that no one has mentioned mules
in period. They came in at least two varieties, draft/pack and riding.
There is currently extant a rare breed of rather large French donkey that
was kept specifically to bred riding mules if I recall correctly. Not sure
if it is period however. That of course brings up the issue of donkeys and
asses.
Daniel
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