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At Vienna 1683 took place one of the largest cavalry charges in history. 20,000 cavalry - spearheaded by 3,000 Hussars - charged downhill along a front of 4,000 meters (4 km):
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No, you are quite wrong. Medieval Serbia and Bosnia did have heavy cavalry that was, in fact, among best in Europe. Your westerners already started developing a preference for fighting on foot by that time (especially English knights).
If you do not believe me, consult history. Byzantines had great preferences for Serbian knights, and heavy cavalry unit under Novak Grebostrek played main role in crushing Catalan Company which was marauding through the Byzantium. In fact, such was his success that they organized him a triumph trough the Constantinople- something usually only conferred to those of non-foreign ancestry.
Do not even get me started on how Serbian knights mowed down western "knights" at Nicopolis (they allied with Ottomans because your nigger-king Sigismund attacked weakened Serbia immediately after Battle of Kosovo, and failed at that). Or how they cut through Mongol ranks with utter ease in Battle of Ankara three times, and Timur just watched in awe and later confessed great admiration for them.
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For big cavalry, you need horses, which are very rare and expensive in a mountanious country like Bosnia or Serbia. You had not heavy cavalry (knights) in the Western sense. Medieval England had not many knights. Catalan Company had not serious cavalry due to the fact they mostly arrived with ships. Again, there were not knights in Serbia. Serbia was always one of the little negligible puppet states in the gravitation of kingdom of Hungary. The best example is Dusan, who always avoided any battles carefully.
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Wrong, Serbian Gusars were not heavy cavalry because they didn't use armour.
The evolution of hussars into heavy cavalry took place in Poland-Lithuania.
"Gusar light cavalry forces were part of the medieval Serbian military":
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medieval_Serbian_army
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Vienna, 1683
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