“Gunpowder and firepower made cavalry obsolescent in the early nineteenth centur

-“Gunpowder and firepower made cavalry obsolescent in the early nineteenth century and obsolete before its end Yet by 1900 cavalrymen were still dominant in many armies and enormous resources were devoted to an army that was, by that time, largely worthless.”- https://twitter.com/curtdoolittle/status/1399371158395527168