Sub-Roman Britain (Cavalry etc)

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Pan Alanu,
Thou speakest most graceful Sire and fulsome thanks for it.

Now..au sujet des choses Brysonnais..... I have to tell you that my life work was with what they call Le Grand Flotte du Haut Mer ..Le chalutiers et tous les autres. Lorient, Le Guilvinec, Concarneau. Happy days. But, to the point. These people have been British from day one. Even from before the Younger Dryas and in a big way after it. This is fact.
But, no matter what people say, it is also a fact that proto Germanics wre in Uk in the days of Doggerland and in a bigger way after it's inundation. That didnt vitiate the Saxon thing and Roman presence in Eastern England was not only a matter of Germanic foedorati but one that had to recognise the Ingaphonic presence,. Were the Bretons Celts? Many a battle could be fought over that and which Celtic thread was in it. But that is not a matter for this forum. However, my surmise is that the Saxons in the East and the Britis in the West was an old divide. Oppenhheimer I thought was good on this, if not on all things. But, prior to Saxons in Kent, Britanny and Southern England, the west too, were one and the same.,

One last thing. About red wine. French food may be the most "broad" and I love it. But the finest cooks, I reckon, are Basque. Ispent many years there. They drink red wine withy fiosh..never white..no white for anything and never rose which is for errr umms.

Viz cavalry...I think your surmise was right. All to do with rank and resources.

As for Serbia, its not just the wee coos.(Spelled it in Scots for your benefit and not in Dutch). Serbia is an important country in our history but no one ever mentions it.
Race of heroes they are..and very good cavalaria!