I'm Scottish ,a military historian too. On the esplanade leading into Edinburgh castle is his sarcophagus ,not sergeant Ewart, ENSIGN Ewart,and just inside are the implements he got that promotion from nco to officers mess with. His sword,the heavy 1796 pattern(if you have watched the Sharpe series you will know it,big,straight and heavy,plus he was a combat veteran and the regiments swordmaster)is there,the sword he did it with,and below it is the standard of the 101st French infantry regiment along with its eagle that he took single handed at Waterloo. Charging into battle crying Scotland forever.

The future of warfare is the past. Horse and soldier will always be together

Tom Russell is a huge gift to the world of music. Incredible songwriter - so glad I discovered him circa 2002 and enticed him to Stan Rogers Folk Festival.

Thank you thank you thanks! I've been looking for this song & any by Tim Russell for 6 months or so after hearing this one on a late night radio show. So many named Tim Russell.

My grandpa was in the US horse calvary. He was one of those who chased Pancho Villa all over mexico. Surprisingly, his account was a lot more violent than the official history. I guess they wanted to white wash the invasion and shooting up of a friendly country and not catching the guy they were after.

I've done reenactments and movies and documentaries. There AIN'T NOTHING like a horse charge. When your knees are slamming into a guy on each side of you and you're doing 35 mph. I did the cavalry charge into the Cheyenne village at Sand Creek in "into the west" I did a charge for a documentary of Bloody Bills massacre of union soldiers at Centralia MO. Also in Bill Curtis's documentary on the battle of Mine Creek, the largest cavalry charge on the North American continent. Another was Quantrils charge into and out of Lawrence in the movie Ride with the Devil. I used to ride bulls but those cavalry charges got my adrenaline pumping to.

I think the world would heal a lot if we had more kindred with our horses then with our cars. It just feels more right. We rode horses for millenias, from the Baikal all the way to the appalachians, horse kinship is probably the most shared human experience. But in this cursed quest for efficiency we dropped our friend the horse for souless lumps of steel

I thoroughly enjoyed Corb concert last night. I’m just going back over videos. Amazing. In this one, I just wondered where all that footage came from. Back in the day, the amount of real action horse riding for movies, including making it look like the person was killed, or the horse falls. Dangerous

The horse is man's best friend. The horse has seen more battle than any other animal strike man

6 trillion dollars b4 the end, when the 1st of the Northern Alliance was murdered, i knew trouble was afoot.

"But to do AND die"

1:52 the coincidence of the banjo with the trumpet is quite hilarious to me.

I just feel obligated to say that while the story of Polish cavalry is a poignant one of valor in the face of insurmountable odds, it's also Nazi propaganda meant to make the Poles out as inferior and dim witted. There are cases of Polish cavalry engaging German infantry before being driven off by panzers, but that's nothing like what most people probably imagine, with saber wielding soldiers on horseback galloping head on towards an armored vehicle.

No one writes a song like Mr. Corb Lund.

Goosebumps when he says "we might see a swelling in our ranks". Just an awesome tune

I was born into the Calvary trade and will die as one. Facta Non Verba

This song and "That's Country My Ass" by Dale Watson are probably the best two indictments against the crap Nashville has been spewing out for so many years.

Nashville is not ever going to get better

This is probably the biggest middle finger given to Trashville and the Grand Ole Opry that I've ever heard.

I feel as though I’ve studied history my entire life, just to appreciate this song.

Anyone else feel like they were a horse soldier in a past life while listening to this song

I get this, but I feel for the footman. I feel like the line animal isn’t the horse. It’s the infantry.

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Amazing, I love this song. It is unfortunate that the Comanche and Texas rangers are not mentioned though. They were so famous for their riding skills.

Yup Interesting times 🇺🇸.

I was a calvary soldier in Vietnam (Air Cav.) ---but attacking/riding in helicopters. (Garry Owen).

Blood memories kicking in.

Dogs my be mans best friend but the horse, the horse will always be mans business partner or allies in combat.

This is the song that hooked me on Corb Lund and I haven't looked back

I was there too when we routed Old Boney

be nice to have a listing of the movie clips.

This is an amazing song! Make me wanna ride a horse.

That line about Marathorpe sends shivers down your spine. If you know you know.

Listening to this Alberta boy working the tar sands connecting iron with my brothers.

Now that's Horse Soldiering!

Pity the Grey's Scouts in Rhodesia did not get a mention. Great Song though.

Masterfully written and vocalized. Even still, Airborne!

Well done.

1; to ride 2; to shoot straight 3; to always speak the truth a part of your ancestry. it’s the first on the list. think about what that means.

wonder if anyone noticed the eagle wing mounted on the wall of the adobe house in the picture @1:10

Greatest Horse Soldiers of all time: Mongols, Hussars

This is like a grandfather telling how he fought in the war

I decided to join your fight on my own Ukrainian, and so should all of your boarding countries!

Playing the part of a freeman before the crowd is an actor in a play of freedom that has no truth or reality merely an applause from fools and want to be freemen. So if I post on your place maybe I felt a real freeman here somewhere you do not get to dictate or own my freedom under this constitution I live by in this nation that I call my home. Spend your life satisfying the clones of freedom and see if they want give you up to protect the lie just, ask the Ukrainians as they are the ones dying not you in your news caps from far away see, fake freeman if in your heart you truly believe you are free then, you will fight to defend it from all comers you should have let me be when, I first asked you to do so as freedom is a will of God, throughout the entire universe.

As a member of a Canadian armoured regiment our entire history is scarlets and horses. We still call Thursday “stables” when we do parades, inspection and hangar clean up. I’m a dragoon in 2022 it’s kinda neat.

Ours is not to reason why, ours is but to do or die.

"Mine was not to reason why, mine was just to do or die at crimea with the charging Light Brigade." Fuck thats such a tragic line. The whole debacle could've been prevented. Those men knew those orders had to be mistaken or insane and yet they charged to their deaths

It's official. This is the only good country song.

Im a civil war cavalry reenactor, and served in the 11th Armored Cavalry in real life, and I LOVE this. We may ride into battle in vehicles now, but we are still horse soldiers, and wear our spurs (which we earn) with great pride! ALLONS!

Written by Taylor Crain I wrote this for Dave Rubin over at the Rubin Report The Woke My thought they’re not of my own merely mandates from the unit clone I tow they’re line in perfect sync yet dare not chance a thought to think. Us not ourselves promotes the machine we dance like monkeys to they’re extremes a systemic limerick the joke of Woke we’ll fix the things that are not broke. I wrote this when, Dave said unit clone and a light kicked on in my head, thanks Dave.