During the invasion of Poland in 1939, it is said that Polish cavalry units charged at the German tanks with sabres and lances, in a desperate and foolhardy attempt to take on the metal beasts.

The winged horsemen known as the hussars were a uniquely Polish kind of cavalry sometimes ... horses – portable and spiked anti-cavalry obstacles that could be placed on the battlefield to protect ...

"In the evening, Deputy Foreign Minister Wladyslaw Teofil Bartoszewski summoned the Charge d’Affaires of ... the incursion of a cruise missile into Polish," the statement said MOSCOW, December ...