Editing Cavalry (section)

====Franco-Prussian War====
[[File:Valladolid - Academia de Caballeria 3.jpg|thumb|upright|''Monument to the Spanish Regiment of light cavalry of Alcántara'']]
During the [[Franco-Prussian War]], at the [[Battle of Mars-la-Tour]] in 1870, a Prussian cavalry brigade decisively smashed the centre of the French battle line, after skilfully concealing their approach. This event became known as '''Von Bredow's Death Ride''' after the brigade commander [[Adalbert von Bredow]]; it would be used in the following decades to argue that massed cavalry charges still had a place on the modern battlefield.<ref>{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=h2wEeRuei6AC |title=The Franco-Prussian War: The German Invasion of France, 1870–1871 |first1=Michael |last1=Howard |first2=Michael Eliot |last2=Howard |publisher=Routledge |year=2001 |isbn=0-415-26671-8 |page=157}}</ref>