🇭🇺HunHussar🇺🇦

History student, model builder, tank and cavalry nut who writes long threads. Nice to meet you! Can speak 🇭🇺🇬🇧 Stand with🇭🇰🇹🇼 слава україні!🇺🇦

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@RivetsAndPins @SilenceInPolish

[Aristocratic Fury @LandsknechtPike]

The duel scene from the movie The Deluge (1974) is widely considered as the most realistic and historically accurate sword fight ever depicted in a movie.

It has been praised for its intensity and attention to detail.

Do you agree that this is the best movie sword fight ever?

[Postman @Postmanden1]

Monitors
Austro-Hungarian known monitor projects:
Number XI and XII River monitors (to be named SMS Duna and SMS Tisza) were the largest Danube monitors ever laid down. Ordered in 1917 and never finished, though some sources say they were launched in 1918.

[🇭🇺HunHussar🇺🇦 @HussarLad]

@KarnesMellagio Ah yes, books on niche topics and their prices

My faaaaaaviouriteee

[🇭🇺HunHussar🇺🇦 @HussarLad]

@ORWH98 That’s still a really cool idea regardless; I hope I get to read it soon 👍

[🇭🇺HunHussar🇺🇦 @HussarLad]

Gonna name one from a few eras cause why not
Burgundian knights (high medieval)
Nádasdy Hussars (early modern)
K.u.K. Dragoon (late 19th-early 20th cents)
PLA cavalry (late 20th cent)

[Aristocratic Fury @LandsknechtPike]

Which historic cavalry unit do you think had the most powerful aesthetics?

My vote goes to Imperial cuirassiers from early 17th century!

They were heavily armored like knights but also had pistols.

The winged hussars were amazing. The Ottoman delis are also interesting.

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@ORWH98 Cuirassier?
Cossack?

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@ORWH98

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I don’t wanna seem like I’m boasting or anything but its stuff like that when I actually sorta feel like a proper historian and researcher

Such a cool feeling lmao

[🇭🇺HunHussar🇺🇦 @HussarLad]

Coolest part of the Sárvár trip I somehow didn’t mention
So the hussar museum is usually closed on mondays but the director knew I was traveling back to the uk the next day so I got a quick “exclusive” run through all the exhibits

Only took pics of the kappenabzeichen but still!

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@SechrestRay Probably 😂

[🇭🇺HunHussar🇺🇦 @HussarLad]

Ya know what I should do when I get back from Hungary?

I should do a thread on contemporary cavalry…

🤔

(No that last one isn’t ceremonial or whatever, a specific country still trains their horsemen to use sabres, points if you can guess which one)

[🇭🇺HunHussar🇺🇦 @HussarLad]

@Neox_person Its the only wholesome one I have 💀

The other 44 I photographed are all hussars dying, injured or in battle

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I don’t wanna post too many of the postcards I had a chance to look at in Sárvár cause idk the legal status of this stuff

But I must make an exception for this infantryman and hussar courting a lady with easter eggs, its too good to not post

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@SechrestRay They publicise it a lot, there was a video of them training that made rounds on twitter a few months ago

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@SechrestRay

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@SechrestRay

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@HistorianBlood 😂😂😂
Soldiers worst enemy next to bad food and wet socks

[🇭🇺HunHussar🇺🇦 @HussarLad]

@HistorianBlood I say that but the US army managed to lose the T-28 super heavy tank behind a bush so…

[🇭🇺HunHussar🇺🇦 @HussarLad]

@HistorianBlood They have a point

Just how DO you lose an entire jet like that??