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Roman Cavalry
Cavalry, although never replacing infantry as the mainstay of the Roman army, could provide useful cover on the flanks of armies, could be used as a shock tactic to cause disruption to enemy infantry formations, and could pursue...
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Crazy Horse Sculpture
Crazy Horse Sculpture by Polish-American artist Korczak Ziółkowski (l. 1908-1982), the model for his large-scale Crazy Horse Memorial in the Black Hills.
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Crazy Horse
A sketch of Crazy Horse (Tasunke Witko, l. c. 1840-1877), the Oglala Lakota Sioux warrior and hero. Crazy Horse refused to be photographed – there are no known photos of him – but this sketch is supposed to bear a close resemblance...
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Silla Horse Painting
A painting of a winged horse on a birch bark saddle flap. From the Heavenly Horse Tomb, Gyeongju, Korea. Silla, 5-6th century CE.
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Chariot
The chariot was a light vehicle, usually on two wheels, drawn by one or more horses, often carrying two standing persons, a driver and a fighter using bow-and-arrow or javelins. The chariot was the supreme military weapon in Eurasia...
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Painting of a Horse, Lascaux Cave
Horse depicted in Lascaux Cave in the Dordogne, southwestern France, dated to the Upper Paleolithic period.
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Crazy Horse Memorial
The Crazy Horse Memorial, Black Hills, South Dakota, USA. Begun in 1948 by Polish-American artist Korczak Ziolkowski and continued by his family, the work is still in progress.
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Red Horse Pictographic Account of Little Bighorn
Pictographic ledger art of the Battle of the Little Bighorn by the Lakota Chief Red Horse, 1881.
National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution.
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Red Horse Depiction of Sioux Casualties at the Little Bighorn
Depiction of Sioux casualties at the Battle of the Little Bighorn by the Lakota Sioux Chief Red Horse, 1881, illustration from Picture Writing of the American Indians, Volume I by Garrick Mallery...
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Tang Dynasty Horse
A unglazed ceramic horse from the Tang Dynasty. China, 8th century CE. (St. Louis Art Museum, Missouri)