Polish cavalry

thumb|Polish uhlans from the army of the Duchy of Warsaw, 1807–1815, [[January Suchodolski painting]] Uhlan (; ; ; ; ) is a type of light cavalry, primarily armed with a lance. The uhlans started with the tartars in the Lithuanian irregular cavalry, that were later also adopted by other countries during the 18th century, including Poland, France, Russia, Prussia, Saxony, and Austria. The term "lancer" was often used interchangeably with "uhlan"; the lancer regiments later formed for the British Army were directly inspired by the uhlans of other armies (even though they were never known by that

thumb|upright=1.20|Polish Lancer (left) and Austrian Cuirassier (right) in a mêlée A lancer was a type of cavalryman who fought with a lance. Lances were used for mounted warfare in Assyria as early as and subsequently by India, Egypt, China, Persia, Greece, and Rome. The weapon was widely used throughout Eurasia during the Middle Ages and the Renaissance by heavy cavalry, but fell out of general use by the late 16th century, before its revival by light cavalry in the early 19th century. Lance cavalry remained in an active role into the early 20th century and World War I. In modern times, many

Polish heavy cavalry

Lotna is a 1959 Polish war film directed by Andrzej Wajda.

WWII Polish invasion battle

166px|thumb|right|Czapka of the officer of 3rd Uhlan Regiment 1815-1831 Czapka (, ; also spelt chapka or schapska ) is a Polish, Belarusian, and Russian generic word for a cap. However, it is perhaps best known to English speakers as a word for the 19th-century Polish cavalry headgear, consisting of a high, four-pointed cap with regimental insignia on the front (full name in Polish: czapka rogatywka, initially: konfederatka) to which feathers or rosettes were sometimes added.

1939 one of the first battles of the Invasion of Poland in World War II

300px|right|thumb|"Chorągiew Pancerni|pancerna of [[rotmistrz Józef Hulewicz" painted by Wojciech Kossak]]

Polish medium-cavalryman from before the 9th to 18th centuries

Polish military officer in WWII

cavalry officer in the army of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth

1945 battle of World War II