04-23-2014, 03:11 PM
Quote:How can the account be wrong when it is written by the men themselves????
If you read far enough, there are comments about the guns and the Russian cavalry.
Because:
They might have an agenda. (get the glory, lay blame on someone else and similar)
There sense of time and location can/is be effected by being in direct combat.
They might be wrong. And think they are at x place when they are in fact at y.
That is why you should always be a bit careful with firsthand accounts from soldiers about what actually happened during combat.
I newer bin in combat and naturally newer bin in a cavalry charge.
But I have bin in a number of mock medieval type battles... and how I (and others) remember a battle is often very different from what actually happens. And we know this because of video recordings of the battle.
When you need to actively defend yourself in melee combat your world shrinks to 1-2 meter in front of your.
Thomas Aagaard
