Portrait of Italian-American Medal of Honor recipient Luigi Palma di Cesnola, by Jacob D. Blondel. (The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of Mrs. James Bradley Cook, 1967) On June 17, 1863, Col. Luigi ...
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Was cavalry effective in WWI?

Once the dominant force on European battlefields, cavalry faced machine guns, barbed wire, and artillery in the First World ...