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The charge is the dominant <a href="/wiki/Shock_attack" class="mw-redirect" title="Shock attack">shock attack</a> and has been the key tactic and decisive moment of many battles throughout history. Modern charges usually involve small groups of <a href="/wiki/Fireteam" title="Fireteam">fireteams</a> equipped with weapons with a high <a href="/wiki/Rate_of_fire" title="Rate of fire">rate of fire</a> and <a href="/wiki/Military_strike" title="Military strike">striking</a> against individual defensive positions (such as a <a href="/wiki/Concertainer" class="mw-redirect" title="Concertainer">concertainer</a> or <a href="/wiki/Bunker" title="Bunker">bunker</a>), instead of large groups of combatants charging another group or a <a href="/wiki/Defense_line" title="Defense line">fortified line</a>. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Ancient_charges">Ancient charges</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Charge_(warfare)&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Ancient charges"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>It may be assumed that the charge was used in <a href="/wiki/Prehistoric_warfare" title="Prehistoric warfare">prehistoric warfare</a>, but clear evidence only comes with later literate societies. The tactics of the <a href="/wiki/Phalanx_formation" class="mw-redirect" title="Phalanx formation">classical Greek phalanx</a> included an ordered approach march, with a final charge to contact.<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Highland_charge">Highland charge</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Charge_(warfare)&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Highland charge"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Highland_charge" title="Highland charge">Highland charge</a></div> <p>In response to the introduction of firearms, Irish and Scottish troops at the end of the 16th century developed a tactic that combined a volley of <a href="/wiki/Musketry" class="mw-redirect" title="Musketry">musketry</a> with a transition to rapid hand-to-hand combat using melee weapons. Initially successful, it was countered by effective discipline and the development of defensive bayonet tactics.<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Banzai_charge">Banzai charge</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Charge_(warfare)&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Banzai charge"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Banzai_charge" title="Banzai charge">Banzai charge</a></div> <p>A term used by the Allied forces to refer to Japanese <a href="/wiki/Human_wave_attacks" class="mw-redirect" title="Human wave attacks">human wave attacks</a> and <a href="/wiki/Swarming_(military)" title="Swarming (military)">swarming</a> staged by infantry units armed with bayonets and swords. This term came from the Japanese <a href="/wiki/Battle_cry" title="Battle cry">battle cry</a> "Tennōheika <a href="/wiki/Ten_thousand_years" title="Ten thousand years">Banzai</a>" (天皇陛下万歳, "Long live His Majesty the Emperor"), shortened to banzai, specifically referring to a tactic used by the <a href="/wiki/Imperial_Japanese_Army" title="Imperial Japanese Army">Imperial Japanese Army</a> during the <a href="/wiki/Pacific_War" title="Pacific War">Pacific War</a>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Bayonet_charge">Bayonet charge</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Charge_(warfare)&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Bayonet charge"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:%CE%88%CF%86%CE%BF%CE%B4%CE%BF%CF%82.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9e/%CE%88%CF%86%CE%BF%CE%B4%CE%BF%CF%82.jpg/220px-%CE%88%CF%86%CE%BF%CE%B4%CE%BF%CF%82.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="159" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9e/%CE%88%CF%86%CE%BF%CE%B4%CE%BF%CF%82.jpg/330px-%CE%88%CF%86%CE%BF%CE%B4%CE%BF%CF%82.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9e/%CE%88%CF%86%CE%BF%CE%B4%CE%BF%CF%82.jpg/440px-%CE%88%CF%86%CE%BF%CE%B4%CE%BF%CF%82.jpg 2x" data-file-width="700" data-file-height="505" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Kingdom_of_Greece" title="Kingdom of Greece">Greek</a> infantry charge with the bayonet during the <a href="/wiki/Greco-Turkish_War_of_1897" class="mw-redirect" title="Greco-Turkish War of 1897">Greco-Turkish War of 1897</a></figcaption></figure> <p>The development of the <a href="/wiki/Bayonet" title="Bayonet">bayonet</a> in the late 17th century led to the bayonet charge becoming the main infantry charge tactic through the 18th and 19th centuries and well into the first half of the 20th century. As early as the 19th century, tactical scholars were already noting that most bayonet charges did not result in close combat. Instead, one side usually fled before actual bayonet fighting ensued. The act of fixing bayonets has been held to be primarily connected to morale, the making of a clear signal to friend and foe of a willingness to kill at close quarters.<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Cavalry_charges">Cavalry charges</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Charge_(warfare)&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Cavalry charges"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The shock value of a charge attack has been especially exploited in <a href="/wiki/Cavalry_tactics" title="Cavalry tactics">cavalry tactics</a>, both of armored <a href="/wiki/Knight" title="Knight">knights</a> and lighter mounted troops of both earlier and later eras. Historians such as <a href="/wiki/John_Keegan" title="John Keegan">John Keegan</a> have shown that when correctly prepared against (such as by improvising fortifications) and, especially, by standing firm in face of the onslaught, cavalry charges often failed against infantry, with horses refusing to gallop into the dense mass of enemies,<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> or the charging unit itself breaking up. However, when cavalry charges succeeded, it was usually due to the defending formation breaking up (often in fear) and scattering, to be hunted down by the enemy.<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> While it was not recommended for a cavalry charge to continue against unbroken infantry, charges were still a viable danger to heavy infantry. <a href="/wiki/Cataphract" title="Cataphract">Parthian lancers</a> were noted to require significantly dense formations of Roman legionaries to stop, and Frankish knights were reported to be even harder to stop, if the writing of <a href="/wiki/Anna_Komnene" title="Anna Komnene">Anna Komnene</a> is to be believed. However, only highly trained horses would voluntarily charge dense, unbroken enemy formations directly, and in order to be effective, a strong formation had to be kept – being the result of efficient training. <a href="/wiki/Heavy_cavalry" title="Heavy cavalry">Heavy cavalry</a> lacking even a single part of this combination – composed of high <a href="/wiki/Morale" title="Morale">morale</a>, excellent training, quality equipment, individual prowess, and collective discipline of both the warrior <i>and</i> the mount – would suffer in a charge against unbroken heavy infantry, and only the very best heavy cavalrymen (e.g., <a href="/wiki/Knight" title="Knight">knights</a> and <a href="/wiki/Cataphract" title="Cataphract">cataphracts</a>) throughout history would own these in regards to their era and terrain. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="European_Middle_Ages">European Middle Ages</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Charge_(warfare)&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: European Middle Ages"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The cavalry charge was a significant tactic in the Middle Ages. Although cavalry had charged before, a combination of the adoption of a frame saddle secured in place by a breast-band, <a href="/wiki/Stirrup" title="Stirrup">stirrups</a> and the technique of couching the lance under the arm delivered a hitherto unachievable ability to utilise the momentum of the horse and rider. These developments began in the 7th century but were not combined to full effect until the 11th century.<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Dyrrhachium_(1081)" title="Battle of Dyrrhachium (1081)">Battle of Dyrrhachium (1081)</a> was an early instance of the familiar medieval cavalry charge; recorded to have a devastating effect by both Norman and Byzantine chroniclers. By the time of the <a href="/wiki/First_Crusade" title="First Crusade">First Crusade</a> in the 1090s, the cavalry charge was being employed widely by European armies.<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>However, from the dawn of the <a href="/wiki/Hundred_Years%27_War" title="Hundred Years' War">Hundred Years' War</a> onward, the use of professional pikemen and longbowmen with high morale and functional tactics meant that a knight would have to be cautious in a cavalry charge. Men wielding either <a href="/wiki/Pike_(weapon)" title="Pike (weapon)">pike</a> or <a href="/wiki/Halberd" title="Halberd">halberd</a> in formation, with high morale, could stave off all but the best cavalry charges, whilst English archers with the <a href="/wiki/Longbow" title="Longbow">longbow</a> could unleash a torrent of arrows capable of wreaking havoc, though not necessarily a massacre, upon the heads of heavy infantry and cavalry in unsuitable terrain. It became increasingly common for knights to dismount and fight as elite heavy infantry, although some continued to stay mounted throughout combat. The use of cavalry for flanking manoeuvres became more useful, although some interpretations of the knightly ideal often led to reckless, undisciplined charges. </p><p>Cavalry could still charge dense <a href="/wiki/Heavy_infantry" title="Heavy infantry">heavy infantry</a> formations head-on if the cavalrymen had a combination of certain traits. They had a high chance of success if they were in a formation, collectively disciplined, highly skilled, and equipped with the best arms and armour, as well as mounted upon horses trained to endure the physical and mental stresses of such charges. However, the majority of cavalry personnel lacked at least one of these traits, particularly discipline, formations, and horses trained for head-on charges. Thus, the use of the head-on cavalry charge declined, although <a href="/wiki/Polish_hussars" title="Polish hussars">Polish hussars</a>, French <a href="/wiki/Cuirassiers" class="mw-redirect" title="Cuirassiers">cuirassiers</a>, and Spanish and Portuguese <a href="/wiki/Conquistador" title="Conquistador">conquistadores</a> were still capable of succeeding in such charges, often due to their possession of the previously mentioned combination of the traits required for success in such endeavours. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Twentieth_century">Twentieth century</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Charge_(warfare)&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Twentieth century"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In the twentieth century, the cavalry charge was seldom used, though it enjoyed sporadic and occasional success. </p><p>Elements of the <a href="/wiki/7th_Cavalry_Regiment" title="7th Cavalry Regiment">7th Cavalry Regiment</a> of the <a href="/wiki/United_States" title="United States">United States</a> attacked <a href="/wiki/Pancho_Villa" title="Pancho Villa">Villista</a> forces in the <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Guerrero" title="Battle of Guerrero">Battle of Guerrero</a> on 29 March 1916. The battle was a victory for the Americans, occurring in desert terrain, at the <a href="/wiki/Mexico" title="Mexico">Mexican</a> town of <a href="/wiki/Vicente_Guerrero,_Chihuahua" title="Vicente Guerrero, Chihuahua">Vicente Guerrero, Chihuahua</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="noprint Inline-Template" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Verifiability" title="Wikipedia:Verifiability"><span title="The material near this tag failed verification of its source citation(s). (January 2013)">failed verification</span></a></i>]</sup><sup id="cite_ref-Boot,_pg._199_9-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Boot,_pg._199-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>One of the most successful offensive cavalry charges of the 20th century was not conducted by cavalry at all, but rather by <a href="/wiki/Mounted_infantry" title="Mounted infantry">mounted infantry</a>, when on 31 October 1917, the Australian <a href="/wiki/4th_Light_Horse_Brigade" title="4th Light Horse Brigade">4th Light Horse Brigade</a> charged across two miles of open terrain in the face of Ottoman <a href="/wiki/Artillery" title="Artillery">artillery</a> and <a href="/wiki/Machine_gun" title="Machine gun">machine gun</a> fire to successfully capture <a href="/wiki/Beersheba" title="Beersheba">Beersheba</a> in what would come to be known as the <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Beersheba_(1917)" title="Battle of Beersheba (1917)">Battle of Beersheba</a>.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (March 2023)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> </p><p>On 23 September 1918, the Jodhpur Lancers and Mysore Lancers of the 15th (Imperial Service) Cavalry Brigade charged Turkish positions on horseback at Haifa. Together the two regiments captured 1,350 German and Ottoman prisoners, including two German officers, 35 Ottoman officers, 17 artillery guns including four 4.2 in (11 cm) guns, eight 77 mm (3.0 in) guns and four camel guns as well as a 6 in (15 cm) naval gun, and 11 machine guns. Their own casualties amounted to eight dead and 34 wounded. 60 horses were killed and another 83 injured.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (March 2023)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> </p><p>On 16 May 1919, during the <a href="/wiki/Third_Anglo-Afghan_War" title="Third Anglo-Afghan War">Third Anglo-Afghan War</a>, the <a href="/wiki/1st_King%27s_Dragoon_Guards" title="1st King's Dragoon Guards">1st King's Dragoon Guards</a> made the last recorded charge by a British horsed cavalry regiment<sup id="cite_ref-Short_12-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Short-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> at Dakka, a village in Afghan territory, north west of the <a href="/wiki/Khyber_Pass" title="Khyber Pass">Khyber Pass</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Afghanistan_13-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Afghanistan-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>During the <a href="/wiki/Spanish_Civil_War,_1938%E2%80%9339" class="mw-redirect" title="Spanish Civil War, 1938–39">Spanish Civil War</a>, there was a massive cavalry charge by a Francoist division during the <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Alfambra" title="Battle of Alfambra">Battle of Alfambra</a> on 5 February 1938, the last great mounted charge in Western Europe.<sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Several attempted charges were made in <a href="/wiki/World_War_II" title="World War II">World War II</a>. The <a href="/wiki/Polish_cavalry" title="Polish cavalry">Polish cavalry</a>, in spite of being primarily trained to operate as rapid infantry and being better armed than regular Polish infantry (more anti-tank weapons and armored vehicles per capita) did execute up to 15 cavalry charges during the <a href="/wiki/Invasion_of_Poland" title="Invasion of Poland">Invasion of Poland</a>. The majority of the charges were successful and none were meant as a charge against armored vehicles. Some battles featured mutual charges by the Polish and German cavalry such as the <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Krasnobr%C3%B3d_(1939)" title="Battle of Krasnobród (1939)">Battle of Krasnobród (1939)</a>. The German cavalry scouts from <a href="/wiki/4th_Light_Division_(Germany)" class="mw-redirect" title="4th Light Division (Germany)">4th Light Division (Germany)</a> charged the Polish infantry from <a href="/wiki/10th_Motorized_Cavalry_Brigade_(Poland)" title="10th Motorized Cavalry Brigade (Poland)">10th Motorized Cavalry Brigade (Poland)</a> and were countered by Polish tankettes moving from concealed positions at <a href="/wiki/Zakliczyn" title="Zakliczyn">Zakliczyn</a>. On November 17, 1941, during the <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Moscow" title="Battle of Moscow">Battle of Moscow</a>, the Soviet 44th Cavalry Division charged the German lines near Musino, west of the capital. The mounted Soviets were ravaged by German artillery, then by machine guns. The charge failed, and the Germans said they killed 2,000 cavalrymen without a single loss to themselves.<sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> On 24 August 1942, the defensive <a href="/wiki/Charge_of_the_Savoia_Cavalleria_at_Izbushensky" title="Charge of the Savoia Cavalleria at Izbushensky">charge of the Savoia Cavalleria at Izbushensky</a> against Russian lines near the <a href="/wiki/Don_River_(Russia)" class="mw-redirect" title="Don River (Russia)">Don River</a> was successful. British and American cavalry units also made similar cavalry charges during <a href="/wiki/World_War_II" title="World War II">World War II</a>. (See <a href="/wiki/26th_Cavalry_Regiment" class="mw-redirect" title="26th Cavalry Regiment">26th Cavalry Regiment</a>). The last successful cavalry charge of World War II was executed during the <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Schoenfeld" title="Battle of Schoenfeld">Battle of Schoenfeld</a> on March 1, 1945. The Polish cavalry, fighting on the Soviet side, overwhelmed the German artillery position and allowed for infantry and tanks to charge into the city. The cavalry sustained only seven dead, while 26 Polish tankmen and 124 infantrymen as well as around 500 German soldiers were killed.<sup id="cite_ref-16" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-17" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-18" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>) </p><p>After World War II, the cavalry charge was clearly outdated and was no longer employed<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (August 2015)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup>; this, however, did not stop modern troops from utilising horses for transport, and in countries with <a href="/wiki/Mounted_police" title="Mounted police">mounted police</a>, similar (albeit unarmed) techniques to the cavalry charge are sometimes employed to fend off rioters and large crowds. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Twenty-first_century">Twenty-first century</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Charge_(warfare)&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: Twenty-first century"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>At the start of the war in Afghanistan by United States forces, there was a cavalry charge by a unit of <a href="/wiki/Green_Berets" class="mw-redirect" title="Green Berets">Green Berets</a> led by Captain Mark Nutsch, and their use of horses in the charge was made into a Hollywood movie, <i><a href="/wiki/12_Strong" title="12 Strong">12 Strong</a></i>. Across from the site of the former <a href="/wiki/World_Trade_Center_(1973%E2%80%932001)" title="World Trade Center (1973–2001)">World Trade Center (1973–2001)</a> there is a monument to the 'horse soldiers' who took part in that daring cavalry charge.<sup id="cite_ref-19" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Age_of_firearms">Age of firearms</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Charge_(warfare)&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: Age of firearms"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In the age of <a href="/wiki/Firearms" class="mw-redirect" title="Firearms">firearms</a>, the basic parameters are speed of advance against rate (or effectiveness) of <a href="/wiki/Firepower" title="Firepower">fire</a>. If the attackers advance at a more rapid rate than the defenders can kill or disable them then the attackers will reach the defenders (though not necessarily without being greatly weakened in numbers). There are many modifiers to this simple comparison – timing, covering fire, organization, formation and terrain, among others. A failed charge may leave the would-be attackers vulnerable to a counter-charge. </p><p>There has been a constant rise in an army's rate of fire for the last 700 years or so, but while massed charges have been successfully broken they have also been victorious. It is only since the mid-19th century that straight charges have become less successful, especially since the introduction of the <a href="/wiki/Repeating_rifle" title="Repeating rifle">repeating rifles</a>, <a href="/wiki/Machine_gun" title="Machine gun">machine guns</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Breech-loading" class="mw-redirect" title="Breech-loading">breech-loading</a> <a href="/wiki/Artillery" title="Artillery">artillery</a>. They are often still useful on a far smaller scale in confined areas where the enemy's firepower cannot be brought to bear. <a href="/wiki/Bayonet_charge" class="mw-redirect" title="Bayonet charge">Bayonet charges</a> are still seen in the early 20th century, but are often limited to use against adversaries with inferior firepowers, when ammunition supply is scarce, or simply as a form of <a href="/wiki/Suicide_attack" title="Suicide attack">suicide attack</a> to <a href="/wiki/Psychological_warfare" title="Psychological warfare">inflict fear on the enemy</a>. </p><p>In modern times, <a href="/wiki/Melee" title="Melee">melee</a> charges are practically extinct outside of <a href="/wiki/Riot_control" title="Riot control">riot control</a> and <a href="/wiki/Street_fighting" title="Street fighting">street fighting</a>, with a few exceptions such as the bayonet charge at the <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Danny_Boy" title="Battle of Danny Boy">Battle of Danny Boy</a>, but military charging tactics mainly take place with <a href="/wiki/Armored_fighting_vehicle" class="mw-redirect" title="Armored fighting vehicle">armored fighting vehicles</a> such as <a href="/wiki/Tank" title="Tank">tanks</a>, <a href="/wiki/Infantry_fighting_vehicle" title="Infantry fighting vehicle">infantry fighting vehicles</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Armored_car_(military)" title="Armored car (military)">armored cars</a>. These <a href="/wiki/Ground_combat_vehicle" class="mw-redirect" title="Ground combat vehicle">ground combat vehicles</a> can either advance directly with <a href="/wiki/Marching_fire" title="Marching fire">marching fire</a>, or transport infantry attackers quickly into proximity with the target position in order to assault and capture it. <a href="/wiki/Air_assault" title="Air assault">Air assaults</a> are also a frequently used tactic to insert <a href="/wiki/Special_operation" class="mw-redirect" title="Special operation">special operation</a> raids against <a href="/wiki/High-value_target" title="High-value target">high-value targets</a>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Notable_charges">Notable charges</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Charge_(warfare)&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: Notable charges"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_the_Golden_Spurs" title="Battle of the Golden Spurs">Battle of the Golden Spurs</a> (July 11, 1302): The <a href="/wiki/Kingdom_of_France" title="Kingdom of France">French</a> cavalry, consisting of many nobles, was defeated in battle by heavily armed Flemish militiamen on foot. The cavalry charge was cited to be rash and premature with the battlefield's many ditches and marshes blamed for the loss, and at a few points on the Flemish line the French horsemen did manage to break through before being surrounded and annihilated. However it also demonstrated that well-disciplined and heavily armed infantry could defeat cavalry charges, ending the perception that heavy cavalry was practically invincible against infantry. The Battle of the Golden Spurs had been seen as the first example of the gradual "<a href="/wiki/Military_Revolution#The_infantry_revolution_and_the_decline_of_cavalry" title="Military Revolution">Infantry Revolution</a>" in <a href="/wiki/Medieval_warfare" title="Medieval warfare">Medieval warfare</a> across Europe during the 14th century.<sup id="cite_ref-20" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li></ul> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Charge_of_the_Light_Brigade.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/18/Charge_of_the_Light_Brigade.jpg/220px-Charge_of_the_Light_Brigade.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="134" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/18/Charge_of_the_Light_Brigade.jpg/330px-Charge_of_the_Light_Brigade.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/18/Charge_of_the_Light_Brigade.jpg/440px-Charge_of_the_Light_Brigade.jpg 2x" data-file-width="960" data-file-height="583" /></a><figcaption>The <a href="/wiki/Charge_of_the_Light_Brigade" title="Charge of the Light Brigade">Charge of the Light Brigade</a>, a charge of British <a href="/wiki/Light_cavalry" title="Light cavalry">light cavalry</a> against a larger Russian force, was made famous because of <a href="/wiki/Alfred,_Lord_Tennyson" title="Alfred, Lord Tennyson">Lord Tennyson</a>'s <a href="/wiki/The_Charge_of_the_Light_Brigade_(poem)" title="The Charge of the Light Brigade (poem)">poetic</a> retelling of the events.</figcaption></figure> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Charge_of_the_Light_Brigade" title="Charge of the Light Brigade">Charge of the Light Brigade</a> (October 25, 1854) at the <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Balaclava" title="Battle of Balaclava">Battle of Balaclava</a> in the <a href="/wiki/Crimean_War" title="Crimean War">Crimean War</a>. Due to faulty orders a tiny force of 670 British light cavalrymen charged an enemy force many times their size. They succeeded in breaking through as well as disengaging, but suffered extremely heavy casualties and achieved no important objectives. Extensively memorialised and the subject of several literary and cinematographic works.<sup id="cite_ref-21" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pickett%27s_Charge" title="Pickett's Charge">Pickett's Charge</a> (July 3, 1863) at the <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Gettysburg" title="Battle of Gettysburg">Battle of Gettysburg</a> in the <a href="/wiki/American_Civil_War" title="American Civil War">American Civil War</a>. A mass infantry assault on the Union lines repulsed with substantial loss. Pickett's Charge has become one of the central symbols of the literary and cultural movement known as the <a href="/wiki/Lost_Cause_of_the_Confederacy" title="Lost Cause of the Confederacy">Lost Cause</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-22" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Mars-la-Tour" title="Battle of Mars-la-Tour">Battle of Mars-la-Tour</a> (August 16, 1870): "Von Bredow's Death Ride". <a href="/wiki/Prussia" title="Prussia">Prussian</a> heavy cavalry brigade overrun <a href="/wiki/Second_French_Empire" title="Second French Empire">French</a> infantry and artillery to reinforce left flank of Prussian Army, at the cost of half the brigade. One of the few notable examples of successful cavalry charges after the introduction of modern firearms. Its success won it renown among military historians, which created a myth to the effect that <i>for some decades 'Bredow's achievement was the norm',</i> that cavalry could still play a decisive role in battle in a modern war between equally equipped forces, and so cavalry units continued to be part of the armed forces of major European powers for the next half century.<sup id="cite_ref-23" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Charge_(warfare)&action=edit&section=11" title="Edit section: See also"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Banzai_charge" title="Banzai charge">Banzai charge</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Human_wave_attack" title="Human wave attack">Human wave attack</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bayonet_charge" class="mw-redirect" title="Bayonet charge">Bayonet charge</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Highland_charge" title="Highland charge">Highland charge</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Charge_(warfare)&action=edit&section=12" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist .references{font-size:100%;margin-bottom:0;list-style-type:inherit}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-2{column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-3{column-width:25em}.mw-parser-output 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