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Good George, you beat me on posting this. I saw this on the Army Website and was about to post it when I saw yours.

I might add that those cavalrymen belong to the Regimiento Ner 1 Granaderos, the coal scuttle helmet guys, that are mostly known as the ceremonial escort of the President, but here ...

I bumped this up.
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Oscar

Excellent! That is an interesting sled mount for that MG08. Is that exclusive to Chile?

Unfortunatelly I don't have that information but I asumme it was of German design, as most of the military equipment in Chile at the turn of the 20 century.

Huge horses anyway for chilean standards, probably ...

Dear friends, in this old post Miguel Freire from Portugal pasted old portuguese cavalry pictures, stating that they were taken at Santarem Cavalry School, and it seems i'ts the same location where the film was shot.

Oscar

Dear friends,

From the Army website, with their permission:

Chilean officers on manouvers in the 20’s

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Chilean Army manouvers in the 20’s

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Machine gun section Chilean ...

"The land was long ridges, with streams down in the dark hollows. Dismounted, along a ridge, with all night to dig in, the boys could hold for a while.

Good boys. Buford had taught them to fight dismounted, the way they did out west, and the hell with this Stuart business, this glorious Murat ...

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Lance Corporal Alexis Venegas Cuitiño, late keettledrummer of the Regiment of Armored cavalry Ner. 3 "Husares" from the city of Angol, in southern Chile, the last horse mounted regiment in the chilean ...

More pictures.






Oscar Torres Arrau
Abogado
Santiago de Chile

Hey boys, this pictures shows Mounted Carabineros charging rioters (really not left wing but anarchists, anti globalization, anti US, anti chilean socialist government, anti anything) that uses the aniversary of "our" 11-9 (1973) as an excuse to destroy everything that stands in their way.

The ...

Onmly what you may already have seen at

http://www.geocities.com/gavinpetition/

"Where was the cavalry? ...and I don't mean horses. I mean helicopters and light aircraft, to lift Soldiers armed with automatic weapons and hand-carried light anti-tank weapons, and also lightweight reconnaissance ...

Roy, this i you, isn't it?


Oscar

Roy, welcome to this forum. I'ts really good to have someone with actual mounted combat experience participating on the forum. I've tried to lure some chilean horse cavalry officers into posting here, but for now it has been unfruitful.

Been reading a lot lately about the War in Rhodesia and the ...

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<br />Hello folks, I assume that you're aware that Chile is the host of the APEC meeting this year, President Bush is coming for a few ...

Hello folks, I assume that you're aware that Chile is the host of the APEC meeting this year, President Bush is coming for a few days, and also President Vladimir Putin. (I won't mention the Chinese guy, nobody elected him)

Well, horses will be part of the show of force of our beloved "Carabineros ...

Pat, Joe, Paul and Ron, and all the others, I wasn't dead or missing, or abducted by aliens, but up to mi neck in paperwork for the last months so I haven't put aside some time to visit the forums very often or to post anything.

When I was writing originally this text was, last Saturday morning ...

I have a book in Spanish, “The great Encyclopedia of the Horse” would be the translation, and in the chapter devoted to cavalry there’s a photograph of three swiss cavalry soldiers, with their Maxim Rubin rifles slung across their backs (Swiss current issue rifle is the SIG 540 or 90, not sure ...

What kind of saddle this officer is using, Maybe a Phillips Military Saddle, Model 1936? I'm learning you know.

Oscar Torres Arrau
Santiago
Chile

It is extracted from “The Buffalo Soldiers at Fort Huachuca” published in 1993 by James P. Finley, at the Huachuca Illustrated, a Magazine of the Fort Huachuca Museum.



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Pvt. Tom Prowl with his horse.
Photo courtesy Prowl Collection,
Fort Huachuca Museum

I did post these pictures on another thread, but I think that they’d be better here.
This two last pictures show a performance of the Black Cadre, the cavalry acrobatic team of the army, currently stationed south of Santiago at Regimiento Granaderos (Grenadiers)

Presentation of the Black Cadre, May ...