--- Damon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [somebody wrote:] > >Ouch! At what point during the war did this > happen? > > Very early in the war (like Sept 1939). After the > Fall of Poland I don't > think the Polish deployed large units of horse > cavalry...at least not the > Free Polish serving in Western Europe.
Small units of mounted partisans did operate for a while behind-the-lines, but they used guerrilla (?sp) tactics and their aim was sabotage. However, when the Nazis were transporting horses by rail (they'd begun a breeding program to produce a horse 'worthy of Aryan warriors'), those trains were spared. [1] Patton's saving of a group of Lipizzaners [2] was docudrama'd in a Disney movie, but he also ordered the 'rescue' of a large group of Nazi "super horses" at Hostau[n], upon the pleadings of 2 German veterinarians who feared for the horses' safety if they were captured by Russian troops. Some of these were Polish 'bounty of war'. http://www.equinepost.com/userpages/arabhistory/march02.html Debbi who is taking ridiculous advantage of the opportunity to talk horses... :) [1] _And Miles To Go_ by Linnell Smith, 1967, is a biography of Witez* II; she travelled to Poland and Germany as well as various places across America to interview people who'd worked with this horse, including one of the above-mentioned veterinarians and the Polish boy-turned-partisan who saved him. I think it's out-of-print now, but if you enjoyed _Seabiscuit_ you'd love this too - another (mostly true) story of how a horse and "his" special humans overcame great odds. (At Amazon.com they're asking from $90-120 for used hardbacks!) [2] "...one of General Patton�s advance units, while rescuing a group of Allied prisoners, had captured a string of Lipizzaner brood mares, foals, and breeding stallions..." http://r.searchhippo.com/r3.php?i=8&q=lippizzan+horse+history+breed&u=http%3A%2F%2Flipizzan.com%2Fwelcome.html __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free, easy-to-use web site design software http://sitebuilder.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
