![]() ![]() They were famous for their “wings”, a wooden frame carrying eagle, ostrich, swan or goose feathers. First introduced by the Serbian and Hungarian mercenary horsemen at the beginning of the 16th century, they served as light cavalry banners in the Polish army, however by the second half of the 16th century hussars had been transformed into heavily armored shock cavalry, eventually they became the elite of the Polish cavalry. ![]() The winged hussars were one of the main types of the cavalry in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth between the 16th and 18th centuries.
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