* 1914 – World War I: the Battle of Haelen a. k. a. ( Battle of the Silver Helmets ) last cavalry style attack from the German army on the city of Halen Belgium.

The French cavalry exerted themselves once more against the first line – Lumley's English and Scots on the Allied left, and Hompesch's Dutch and German squadrons on the Allied right.

A single attempt by the German army, on 12 August 1914, to use six regiments of massed cavalry to cut off the Belgian field army from Antwerp foundered when they were driven back in disorder by rifle fire.

The German Army dismounted nearly all their cavalry in the West.

It was not until the German Army had been forced to retreat in the Hundred Days Offensive of 1918, that cavalry were again able to operate in their intended role.

The post-war German Army ( Reichsheer ) was permitted a large proportion of cavalry ( 18 regiments or 16. 4 % of total manpower ) under the conditions of the Treaty of Versailles.

A popular myth is that Polish cavalry armed with lances charged German tanks during the September 1939 campaign.

Second, there were a few incidents when Polish cavalry was trapped by German tanks, and attempted to fight free.

The last, in Europe, cavalry vs. cavalry mutual charge took place in Poland during the battle of Krasnobrod when the Polish and German cavalry units charged each other.

The U. S. Army's last horse cavalry actions were fought during World War II: a ) by the 26th Cavalry Regiment ( PS ) in World War II — a small mounted regiment of Philippine Scouts which fought the Japanese during the retreat down the Bataan peninsula, until it was effectively destroyed by January 1942 ; and b ) on captured German horses by the mounted reconnaissance section of the U. S. 10th Mountain Division in a spearhead pursuit of the German Army across the Po Valley in Italy in April 1945.

The Germans had not taken cavalry into consideration when fortifying their position which, combined with the " Warsaw " s swift assault, overran the German anti-tank guns and consolidated into an attack into the village itself, now supported by infantry and tanks.

Image: Polish cavalry in Sochaczew ( 1939 ) a. jpg | Polish cavalry galloping through a bombed town during the German invasion of Poland in 1939.

Thus the dragoon regiments of the Imperial German Army wore the pickelhaube ( spiked helmet ) of the same design as those of the infantry and the British dragoons wore scarlet tunics, In other respects however dragoons had adopted the same tactics, roles and equipment as other branches of the cavalry and the distinction had become simply one of traditional titles.

( To make the confusion even greater, where Knecht in German received a military meaning — in " Landsknecht "— it denoted foot soldiers rather than cavalry ).

The HRE army was half Polish / Lithuanian Commonwealth forces, mostly cavalry, and half Holy Roman Empire forces ( German / Austrian ), mostly infantry.

Not until the introduction of well-regulated, plate-armored knight heavy cavalry could German emperors stop the Hungarian armies.

By doing so he and the German dukes gained time to fortify towns and train a new elite cavalry force.

Count Johann von Werth ( 1591 – September 12, 1652 ), also Jan von Werth or in French Jean de Werth, was a German general of cavalry in the Thirty Years ' War.

Many countries developed their own styles of light cavalry, such as Hungarian mounted archers, Spanish jinetes, Italian and German mounted crossbowmen and English currours.

The German general staff under Moltke was alarmed and managed to have Bismarck ban a French procurement of ten thousand cavalry horses from Germany.

He evaded a Soviet patrol and met up with a forward German patrol.

During the Second World War, the Royal Navy deployed an armed merchant vessel to patrol South Georgian and Antarctic waters against German raiders, along with two four-inch shore guns ( still present ) protecting Cumberland Bay and Stromness Bay, manned by volunteers from among the Norwegian whalers.

The German pleads for his life and Miller decides to let him walk away, blindfolded, and surrender himself to the next Allied patrol.

A patrol from the German 2nd Army under Prince Friedrich Karl of Prussia spotted decoy fires close and Frossard's army farther off on a distant plateau south of the town of Spicheren, and took this as a sign of Frossard's retreat.

" She generously takes them in, and doesn't betray them to a passing German army patrol.

A German patrol sights the two fugitives crossing a snow-covered valley.

A patrol of German soldiers, disguised as American G. I. s, infiltrates their position and later blows up a nearby bridge.

Promoted to a lieutenant colonel, in the fall of 1944 Lodge single-handedly captured a four-man German patrol.

This design and its successors that are still in use today are the German counterparts to the American patrol cap or utility cover.

To encourage the German fleet to stay at home, the British would make occasional forays with the Grand Fleet and patrol with smaller cruiser and battlecruiser squadrons.

They observed that German destroyers had adopted a regular pattern of patrols where each evening cruisers would escort out destroyers, which would patrol for British ships during the night before being met and escorted home each morning.

An attack at 08: 00 on the German daytime patrol was preferred.

After being captured by an Waffen-SS Army patrol, Feoktistov was shot by a German officer.

O ' Connor was captured by a German reconnaissance patrol during the night of 7 April 1941, and spent over two years in an Italian prisoner of war camp.

On 6 April O ' Connor and Neame, while travelling to their headquarters which had been withdrawn from Maraua to Timimi, were captured by a German patrol near Martuba.

Collecting and assembling the equipment was a lengthy process, but at noon the patrol returned with 3 jeeps, 6 AT guns, 115 glider troops, and 35 German prisoners.

* May 26 – Spanish Republican air raids by Soviet pilots narrowly miss the German patrol ship Albatross at Palma and damage the German " pocket battleship " Deutschland off Ibiza, killing 31 and wounding 66 aboard Deutschland.

In the UK the Curtiss flying boat was developed into the Felixstowe series of flying boats, which were used in the First World War to patrol for German submarines.

The main party became fragmented on the second night and whilst attempting to make a short cut one party under Major John Coke of the King's Own Scottish Borderers inevitably stumbled into a German patrol.

To counter the German long range patrol aircraft which targeted merchant convoys the British introduced the CAM ship which was a merchant vessel equipped with a single fighter aircraft which could be launched once to engage the enemy aircraft.

The A Troop section having finished off the pillboxes, set out for Orange one beach, ambushing a German patrol on route.

One raid was supposed to meet a party form the Dutch resistance they landed without being discovered but then disturbed a German patrol who fled rather than put up any resistance.