The pistol was specifically developed to try to bring cavalry back into the conflict, together with manoeuvres such as the caracole.

The caracole was a tactic very much criticized by military historians who didn't fully understand its use, especially Charles Oman.

The caracole was developed as a light cavalry tactic to be used in combination with the fully armoured lancers that made up the heavy cavalry in those times.

However, there is plenty of evidence that the caracole was falling out of use by the 1580s at the latest.

Sometimes it has been erroneously identified as caracole when low morale cavalry units, instead of charging home, contented themselves with delivering a volley and retire without closing the enemy, but in all those actions the distinctive factor of the caracole, the rolling fire through countermarching, was absent.

The caracole was rarely tried against enemy cavalry, as it could be easily broken when performing the maneuver by a countercharge.

The last recorded example of the use of the caracole against enemy cavalry ended in disaster at the battle of Mookerheyde ( 1574 ), in which 400 Spanish lanzas ( light cavalry ) charged 2, 000 German reiters ( in Dutch employ ) while the second line was reloading their pistols, easily routing the whole force.

The cuirassiers themselves typically employed caracole tactics, advancing to the charge at a trot, often in a dense formation six or ten ranks deep.

Certainly he regarded the technique as fairly useless, and ordered cavalry under Swedish command not to use the caracole ; instead, he required them to charge aggressively like their Polish-Lithuanian opponents.

Banér ’ s cavalry had been taught to deliver its impact with the saber, not to caracole with the hard-to-aim pistols or carbines, forcing Pappenheim and his cavalry quit the field in disarray, retreating 15 miles northwest to Halle.

Some historians after Michael Roberts associate the demise of the caracole with the name of Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden ( 1594 – 1632 ).

The first part of the word is generally taken to be identical with the verb to jaunt, now only used in the sense of to go on a short pleasure excursion, but in its earliest uses meaning to make a horse caracole or prance, hence to jolt or bump up and down.

Others tried to combine firepower with mobility by using novel cavalry tactics such as the caracole, but these slowed the cavalry down and proved largely ineffective.

The adoption of the pistol as the primary weapon led to the development of the stately caracole tactic where cuirassiers fired their pistols at the enemy, then retired to reload whilst their comrades advanced in turn to maintain the firing.

Even orthodox cavalry carried firearms, especially the pistol, which they used in a tactic known as the caracole.

The military caracole as it is usually understood today developed in the mid-16th century in an attempt to integrate gunpowder weapons into cavalry tactics.

Henry IV's Huguenot cavalry and Dutch cuirassiers were good examples of cavalry units that abandoned the caracole early on — if they ever used it at all.

Nevertheless, various variants of the caracole tactics continued to be used well into 17th century against enemy cavalry.

Later the same unit also tried the caracole using gaps in the line of charging husaria heavy cavalry.

The Danish on the other hand, still used the caracole tactic, undermining the speed and agility of their cavalry.

They reportedly fired in volley or caracole fashion ; the first line firing and then stepping back to reload while the second line stepped forward to fire.

The caracole or caracol ( from the Spanish caracol-" snail ") is a turning maneuver on horseback in dressage and, previously, in military tactics.

In dressage, riders execute a caracole as a single half turn, either to the left or to the right.

It is worth noting that contemporary 16th-and 17th-century sources did not seem to have used the term " caracole " in its modern sense.

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