전설의 기병, 폴란드 윙드 훗사르(Polish Winged Hussar)

지난 여름 벨기에에서 만난 폴란드의 관계자가 최근 윙드 훗사르의 기병활동을 재현하는데 성공했다고 전했다. 이 광경을 보기위해 10만 관중이 몰렸다고 하니 폴란드인들에게는 그들의 상징이고, 영웅이다.

아래는 위키백과를 통해 폴란드 윙드 훗사르에 대해 알아 보았다.

The Polish Hussars(Polish: Husaria) were the main type of cavalry of Polish Army (and later, the Polish-Lithuanian Army) between the 16th and 18th centuries. When this cavalry type was first introduced by the Serbian mercenary horsemen, they were serving as light cavalry banners (1500), and by the second half of the 16th century hussars had been transformed into heavy cavalry. Until the reforms of 1770s the husaria banners were considered the elite type of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth cavalry.

Polish Hussar formation at the Battle of Klushino 1610

Hussar armour, dating to the first half of the 17th century, Polish Army Museum, Warsaw.

Grand Standard Bearer of the Polish Crown (Chorąży Wielki Koronny) on the Stockholm Roll (c. 1605)

Polish hussars during entry into Kraków, detail of so-called Stockholm Roll, 1605.