BBC - Soldiers A History of Men in Battle (1985) Part 2 The Cavalry

Wars are conflicts between states and societies. Soldiers are the human means through which wars are fought. Soldiers, the major BBC series on the history of warfare, tells its story through the different types of soldiers who have fought each other since warfare began.

“War changes men and it changes Man; it alters our world and our history, our political systems, our social attitudes, our perceptions and our moralities. By showing how men go into it, pass through it and emerge from it, 'Soldiers' tells us something we need to know.” - Frederick Forsyth

Part 2: The Cavalry

Some four thousand years ago, when somewhere on the egde of the great sea of grass that fills the plain of Central Asia, man first tamed the horse and broke it to his will. It was the beginning of a relationship that would transform warfare, and so trade, agriculture and politics. Horseman was the master of the battlefield over much of the world from 1000 B.C. until the end of the Middle Ages.

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