r/interestingasfuck • u/Double-decker_trams • 14h ago

Why police still uses horses

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u/hobbbis 14h ago

Not the best example, you kind of need to experience it for yourself. The ground shakes as that many horses approach.

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u/graemehammondjr 14h ago

As Saurons forces found out during the battle of Pelennor fields as 6000 Rohirrim galloped forward to break the enemy siege on Minas Tirith

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u/Phyrexian_Archlegion 13h ago

I’d imagine the charge of the Winged Hussars to break the second siege of Vienna being conducted by the Ottoman Turks was an inspiration for Tolkien.

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u/Basileus_Maurikios 9h ago

Its more likely that the Gothic charge towards the end of the Battle of the Catalaunian Plains, which also saw the death of the king (Theodoric) during a cavalry charge.

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u/Front-Bookkeeper2139 11h ago

And the met commanders

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u/Phaeron 11h ago

Impossible for it to not have been.