Polish hussars knight & horse

Patch Polish hussars and horses - made using computer embroidery technique showing a knight of a hussar on a horse.

The beginning of the birth of Polish hussars is the beginning of the sixteenth century.
In the time of Stefan Batory, hussars accounted for 90% of the national race. Polish and Lithuanian armed forces as the "invincible force" of hussars from 1598.
The hussars owed a big role in winning the victory to their horses. Horses from Polish breeding with an admixture of eastern breeds - so they were fast, resistant and high horses.