Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Texas at Austin, 2004. / Supervisors: Cynthia W. Shelmerdine and Peter Green. Vita. Includes bibliographical references. Also available from UMI.

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Problem and Thesis: This thesis concerns itself with the role of cavalry as it emerged in western campaigns in the American Civil War from April 1862 to June 1863. The concepts of the role of cavalry that existed prior to the War, both in Europe and the United States are surveyed. This, like the historiographical scrutiny of cavalry studies, sets up a frame of reference for the reader to avoid the impression that the situation in the American Civil War existed in isolation. The main problem was to separate role from the topics of tactical evolutions, styles of fighting, the effects of weaponry, the influence of terrain, and actual tactical employment in battle. It is the author's contention that these more obvious points have really only obscured the true nature of the role of mounted troops in the American Civil War. These problems are important, but entirely separate from role, or the duties and responsibilities of an arm of the service in war. The roles of the several arms have not altered significantly although sophistication has allowed greater refinement in approach and greater efficiency in execution. Thus it is the main argument of this thesis that the role of cavalry remained much the same during the American Civil War in spite of surface alterations in approach and efficiency in the waging of war. Approach: The Western Theatre was chosen as the area for study because it has been relatively neglected in Civil War Historiography and it was there that the genuinely decisive battles were fought. The fate of the South was really sealed in the Mississippi Valley and not in the East in the stalemate which was the general character of the war in that theatre. The study starts at the Battle of Shiloh, which was the first real test of combat in the West, and traces Braxton Bragg’s Invasion of Kentucky. The failure of that and the Confederate repulse at Corinth assured eventual Federal control of the West. Once the campaigns had been selected, a familiarity with the studies done on cavalry was undertaken and it was immediately obvious that the problem of the role of mounted troops had never really been undertaken. The bulk of the research for reconstructing the role of cavalry in the campaigns fell on the Official Records, the mainstay of any Civil War research. This was buttressed by other government sources, diaries, reminiscences, memoirs, letters and relevant secondary material. The role of the cavalry on both sides emerged fairly clearly from this research. It had a dual character, on the one hand being a shield oriented to the protection of the army at large and on the other hand being a dagger aimed for lightning-like thrusts at vulnerable points in the enemy’s side. This analogy successfully explains the role of cavalry that emerged from the campaigns studied. As a shield cavalry was defensive, subordinate, and tactical. The role of cavalry as a dagger was usually secondary to that as a shield, but it was nonetheless distinct and real. Then it was offensive, independent, and often strategical. Conclusions: A role for cavalry had emerged from the classic studies of Baron De Jomini, based on analysis of the Napoleonic Wars and written thirty years before. The role that emerged in the study was remarkably like that suggested by Jomini, although Jomini’s influence is not the subject of this inquiry. It seems, that in this manner at least, the American Civil War, although it exhibited dramatic changes in many ways, was in others quite orthodox. The war did not see a significant alteration in the role of cavalry although it saw shifts in emphasis and approach to that role as well as increased efficiency, in many cases, in its fulfilment. / Arts, Faculty of / History, Department of / Graduate

The American military experience in the European Theater of Operations during the Second World War is one of the most heavily documented topics in modern historiography. However, within this plethora of scholarship, very little has been written on the contributions of the United States Cavalry to this era. The six mechanized cavalry groups assigned to the Third Army served in a variety of roles, conducting screens, counter-reconnaissance, as well as a number of other associated security missions for their parent corps and the Army. Although unheralded, these groups made substantial and war-altering impacts for the Third Army.

The American military experience in the European Theater of Operations during the Second World War is one of the most heavily documented topics in modern historiography. However, within this plethora of scholarship, very little has been written on the contributions of the American corps cavalry to the operational success of the Allied forces. The 13 mechanized cavalry groups deployed by the U.S. Army served in a variety of roles, conducting screens, counter-reconnaissance, as well as a number of other associated security missions for their parent corps and armies. Although unheralded, these groups made substantial and war-altering impacts for the U.S. Army.

Thesis (M. A.)--University of Canterbury, 2007. / Typescript (photocopy). Includes 2 maps. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 255-270). Also available via the World Wide Web.

The funerary grave stelae of the Roman cavalrymen are large, impressive monuments set apart from their military counterparts by the ornate relief carvings which they exhibit. The two most common motifs featured on these tombstones are the rider relief motifs and the totenmahl motifs. Aspects of both the reliefs and the inscribed epitaphs are distinctly characteristic of the Roman military. Throughout the history of the Roman Empire, men in the auxiliary cavalry units were recruited from non-Roman allied tribes. These recruits brought with them foreign languages, customs, and beliefs. Through a comparative study of Roman cavalry tombstones found in Great Britain, Germany, and Syria, I have attempted to identify iconographic and epigraphic elements that are evidence of the ethnic origins of the cavalrymen who are commemorated on these funerary monuments.

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Les campagnes militaires de Philippe II et d’Alexandre le Grand ont bouleversé les équilibres politiques et militaires du monde grec classique. En développant une pensée militaire fondée sur la coordination des armes et non sur le primat de l’infanterie, ils ont donné à la cavalerie une importance tactique qu’elle n’avait pas dans les armées civiques de la période classique. L’épopée d’Alexandre représente, à cet égard, une aventure collective de dizaines de milliers d’hommes et de chevaux. Elle initie une conception de la guerre dans laquelle les chevaux sont des acteurs incontournables, infléchissant la stratégie, la tactique et la logistique de campagne. Dès lors, la production, la formation et la remonte des chevaux de guerre constituent des enjeux primordiaux de la construction des royaumes hellénistiques, car les dynasties des successeurs d’Alexandre se sont constamment préoccupées d’entretenir de cavaleries puissantes.Dans cette aventure cavalière, les cités emboitent le pas aux royaumes hellénistiques avec les ressources dont elles disposent, réformant leurs cavaleries ou en constituant de nouvelles, souvent dans une perspective fédérale leur permettant de nourrir de plus grandes ambitions militaires. Cela implique de trouver des chevaux, mais aussi des hommes capables de les monter et de les entretenir. Le consensus social établi entre les autorités civiques et les élites cavalières – une « classe d’écuyers » loin d’être homogène – diffère fortement d’une cité à l’autre en fonction de la culture équestre locale, c’est-à-dire des usages, pratiques et représentations des hommes de cheval dans le cadre – politique, économique et social – de la communauté civique à laquelle ils appartiennent. Les cultures équestres régionales ont donc en partie déterminé la capacité des cités à développer leurs cavaleries, mais, en retour, les mutations politiques et militaires de l’époque hellénistique ont considérablement influencé la culture équestre des élites en en renouvelant les pratiques – du prestige de l’hippotrophia aux réalités de l’équitation militaire – et en l’associant plus fortement qu’avant aux destinées politiques de la cité, à ses valeurs et à son système de représentation. / The military campaigns of Philip II and Alexander the Great upset the political and military balance of the classical Greek world. By developing a military way of thinking based on the coordination of arms and not on the primacy of the infantry, they gave the cavalry unprecedented tactical importance compared to other civil armies in the classical period. Alexander the Great's epic is, in this respect, a collective adventure of tens of thousands of men and horses. It introduced a conception of war in which horses were key players, bending strategy, tactics and campaign logistics. From then on, the production, training and upbringing of war horses became primordial issues in the construction of the Hellenistic kingdoms, because Alexander's successors' dynasties were constantly concerned with maintaining a powerful cavalry.In this equestrian adventure, the cities followed in the Hellenistic kingdoms' footsteps with the resources available to them: they reformed the cavalry or created new units, often in a federal perspective allowing them to feed greater military ambitions. This involved finding horses, but also men to mount and care for them. The social consensus established between the civic authorities and the cavalier elites - a far from homogeneous "squire class" - which differed greatly from one city to another depending on the local equestrian culture, i.e. the uses, practices and representations of horsemen in the political, economic and social context of the civic community to which they belonged. Regional equestrian cultures thus partly determined the capacity of cities to develop their cavalry, but, in return, the political and military changes of the Hellenistic period considerably influenced the elite's equestrian culture by renewing its practices - from the prestige of hippotrophia to the realities of military riding - and associating it more strongly than before with the political destinies of the city, its values and its system of representation.

Por meio do estudo de algumas das tópicas medievais a presente dissertação se propõe a analisar o lai do trovador Joan Lobeyra intitulado Canção de Leonoreta. O desenvolvimento do trabalho levou à busca de diversas reinterpretações dadas à canção em diferentes momentos da histórias do mundo ibérico. Desse modo, o caminho percorrido conduziu à análise da reescritura da canção na novela de cavalaria intitulada Amadis de Gaula, na obra dos poetas portugueses Affonso Lopes Vieira e Silva Tavares e, finalmente, na obra da poetisa brasileira Cecília Meireles / By the study of some medieval topics, the current dissertation purposes to analyse \"The Chant of Loroneta\" by Joam Lobeira troubadour, the development of such a work led to the search for several interpretations given to the chant in different periods in iberian world history, in this view, the way followed was the one led to the analysis of the knight-errantry tale chant entitled Amadis de Gaul in Afonso Lopes Vieira and Silva Tavares\'s writings, both portuguese poets, in the writing of brazilian poetess Cecília Meireles