02-22-2013, 08:15 AM
Regarding casualty registery from Klushino:
It doesn't specifically mention weapons which caused casualties among horses (for example it doesn't say: "a horse of Sir / servant of Sir ... was killed by a sabre / sword / pike / etc.).
But it DOES distinguish between horses "shot" and "killed" (and "injured" are another category).
So I suppose, that "shot" were horses killed by firearms, while "killed" were horses killed by melee weapons - and the only melee weapon that is known for being efficient in killing horses and was used by enemies of Polish hussars at Klushino, is a pike...
What is interesting - number of "killed" horses is considerably higher than number of "shot" ones.
While in case of casualties in men - proportion of "killed" to "shot" people is different (it seems like slightly more soldiers are listed as "shot" than "killed" - although I did not count it precisely).
It doesn't specifically mention weapons which caused casualties among horses (for example it doesn't say: "a horse of Sir / servant of Sir ... was killed by a sabre / sword / pike / etc.).
But it DOES distinguish between horses "shot" and "killed" (and "injured" are another category).
So I suppose, that "shot" were horses killed by firearms, while "killed" were horses killed by melee weapons - and the only melee weapon that is known for being efficient in killing horses and was used by enemies of Polish hussars at Klushino, is a pike...
What is interesting - number of "killed" horses is considerably higher than number of "shot" ones.
While in case of casualties in men - proportion of "killed" to "shot" people is different (it seems like slightly more soldiers are listed as "shot" than "killed" - although I did not count it precisely).