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    History of the Bosniak Lancer Corps

    In what was, until recently, Yugoslavia there was a republic, now a state, called Bosnia which occupies the same place as a medieval state of that name. Its inhabitants of the Muslim faith are called Bosniaks. They were originally Christians who converted to Islam after Bosnia came under Turkish rule, at the end of the fifteenth and beginning of the sixteenth century. In feudal Turkey, anyone who owned land had the obligation of military service in case of war, so Bosniaks were found in all Turkish armies of that time.

    In 1740, the War of the Austrian Succession began. Prussian King Frederick wanted to annex the rich province of Silesia, but Austria opposed this, which was deemed sufficient cause for war. In the early part of the war, known as the First Silesian War, Saxony was on the side of Prussia, but decided to switch allegiance. In preparation for a possible continuation of the war, military emissaries were sent to the Ukraine in 1744 to recruit men for the Saxon cavalry. The response of the Cossacks was disappointing, but Saxony managed to lure from the Turkish army about 100 Bosniaks – light horsemen armed with lances, who were guarding the Turkish border in the Ukraine. The Bosniaks left for Dresden.


    On their arrival, Prussian emissaries in Saxony offered the Bosniaks more, so they marched off again, from Saxony to Prussia. In 1745, Frederick founded a regular Bosniaken Korps, one troop in strength, which became part of the 5th Hussars, also known as the Black Hussars (Totenkopf), their symbol being a death’s head.





    Hostilities continued as the Second Silesian War, and ended in 1748, but the Bosniaks remained in service. In the same area, and for similar reasons, another war soon started. In 1756, Prussia occupied Saxony, triggering the Seven Years War. The magnitude of operations and insufficient Prussian human resources forced Frederick to recruit soldiers outside his borders.Light horsemen from the east – Poles, Lithuanians, Tartars and Muslims – were incorporated into the Bosniak units, which, by 1760, had grown to 10 squadrons. That same year, the Bosniaks became a regular light cavalry regiment, number 9 on the army list.

    After the end of the war in 1763 the regiment was disbanded, only one squadron being kept for ceremonial purposes.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Veneda View Post
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    ...are super cool

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    In 1778, another war broke out between Prussia and Austria, this time over Bavaria. The Bosniaken Korps was again filled out to 10 squadrons, mainly with recruits from the Ukraine and Poland. In this war, which had no major battles, the Bosniaks suffered heavy losses in surprise attacks by the Austrian hussars.

    Towards the end of the eighteenth century, Poland disappeared from the map of Europe: one part was annexed by Russia, another by Austria and a third by Prussia. Prussia recruited 15 squadrons of light horsemen from its part of Poland; but these troops were Bosniaks in name only. As Poles made up the majority, the units were renamed the Korps Towarczys in 1799.After the Prussian defeat by Napoleon in 1806, the Towarczys were disbanded.









    They even appeared in a Total War game.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Lucifer View Post
    ...are super cool
    Hmm... Towel/ piece of fabric is not a protection for a head for Lancer Corps warrior. Why didn't you use iron helmets?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Veneda View Post
    Hmm... Towel/ piece of fabric is not a protection for a head for Lancer Corps warrior. Why didn't you use iron helmets?
    don't you know that bosnian heads are as hard as rocks

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    Quote Originally Posted by Lucifer View Post
    don't you know that bosnian heads are as hard as rocks
    Now I know I didn't realise that

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    Quote Originally Posted by Veneda View Post
    Now I know I didn't realise that
    on a serious note check this :

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Light_cavalry

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heavy_cavalry

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