Revue de Cavalerie – Jul - Aug 1921, p437 – “Étude sur la Ca
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Revue de Cavalerie – Jul - Aug 1921, p437 – “ Étude sur la Cavalerie Bochevique” / XII – The Bolshevik CavalryStrength - OrganisationUp to June 1919 the Bolshevik army only disposed of regiments of divisional cavalry; but at that date, in order to oppose the audacious raids of M amontow, who had twice pierced the front and opened for Denikin the road t o V oronège and O rel, Trotski de cided on t he creation of a large cavalry body.He pushed very actively for its organisation and in August of the same year two cavalry corps (Boudeny and Doumenko) entered action, broke in their turn Denikin’ s front and threw his units in disorder back to the Caucasus.In M ay 1920, t he red c avalry w as composed of :1) T hree large uni ts of cavalry:th – the Cavalry Army of Boudeny (five divisions of cavalry on which four were organic, plus the 9 cavalry division) ;rd – 3 Caucasian C avalry C orps (Gaia Cavalry C orps: two di visions of cavalry) ; – Jloba Cavalry C orps (three di visions of cavalry) .2) The divisions of cavalry or mixed groups operating independently or in an Army (six divisions of cavalry) .3) T he regiments or gr oups of di visional cavalry (strength of forty r egiments)In t otal: 17 organised c avalry di visions and 40 di visional regiments.A) Composition of the large units1) T he Cavalry A rmy of Boudeny c onsists of :1 H eadquarters ...
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