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* Several cavalry generals of the [[American Civil War]], notably the flashy J.E.B. Stuart and George Armstrong Custer, conformed to the image, while some of their more business-like peers like Nathan Bedford Forrest and Phil Sheridan showed how cavalry could be successfully used at the time as mounted infantry.
** Perhaps not suprisingly, Stuart and Custer had been professional cavalry officers before the war, while Forrest had been a civilian and Sheridan came from the infantry and only was transferred to the cavaly in May 1862.
**In one way Sheridan stood by the "tradition". He was a great believer in the old time chevauchee and applied it ruthlessly. In the [[American Civil War]] he was totally ruthless about wasting the Shenandoah to keep supplies down and in the Indian wars he encouraged buffalo hunting for the same reason. He was a great believer in the [[War Is Hell|General Sherman School.]]
* Masinissa, the Numidian [[Warrior Prince]] who led the cavalry allied to Scipio Africanus in the Battle of Zama.
* Ghenghis Khan.
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