What does caracole mean?
Caracole means A half-turn performed by a horse and rider in dressage..
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/ˈkæɹəkəʊl/ · noun
A half-turn performed by a horse and rider in dressage..
How the chargers neigh and champ, / (Their riders weary of camp,) / With curvet and with caracole!
The caracole played a role well into the Thirty Years' War.
The battle tactic of these cavalry was called the caracole, an attack with pistols. There were four main varieties which may be called the simple caracole, the true caracole, the limacon, and the Protestant caracole.
1884, Robert Black (translator), François Guizot, Henriette Elizabeth Guizot de Witt, The History of France from the Earliest Times to 1848, Volume 1, John B. Alden, page 259, Finally he went out of church and caracoled about on the open, at the foot of the castle, in presence of the people eager to have their share in the spectacle.
2010, Peter H. Wilson (translator and editor), The Thirty Years War: A Sourcebook, Macmillan Publishers (Palgrave Macmillan), page 67, The proper way, which I often explained to them, was too reject the bad habit of caracolling when facing the enemy.
Prince John, upon a grey and high-mettled palfrey, caracoled within the lists at the head of his jovial party, laughing loud with his train, and eyeing with all the boldness of royal criticism the beauties who adorned the lofty galleries.
[…]the noble bishop caracolled in the presence, on a well-trained war-horse, which the right reverend father in God bestrode in a lay habit of purple, jack-boots, his hat cocked, and his black wig tied up behind in true military fashion.
Sir Charles Oman's book mentions no instance where caracoling cavalry succeeded unaided in breaking a resolute body of infantry standing firm to receive them.
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Caracole means A half-turn performed by a horse and rider in dressage..
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How the chargers neigh and champ, / (Their riders weary of camp,) / With curvet and with caracole!
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