Cavalry
Horses
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Later on, many British cavalry regiments were re-equipped with tanks instead of horses, but cavalry traditions and modes of thinking persisted.
Source: Cavalry Officer -
Horses are also reputed to be scared or disoriented by the scent of camels; while this may not be true, reports of horse cavalry collapsing before camel cavalry are fairly consistent across time and place (from the time of Cyrus The Great through to the Arab empires, and in Central Asia as well).
Source: Anti-Cavalry - Not the least of which was the Polish Army, famed for having some of the finest horses in Europe and therefore was literal as well as metaphorical cavalry.
Source: Useful Notes / Siege of Vienna
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