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'Thunderer' was an 84 gun second rate ship of the line

on horseback in full armour

' Nottinghamshire

Sunday 7th April 1991

French cavalry on a reconnaissance mission, Somme, France Hotel du Dauphin 'Thunderer' was an 84 gunFrench cavalry on a reconnaissance mission, Somme, France, 1914. In the face of machine guns, modern artillery and barbed wire, cavalry quickly became obsolete on the Western Front once the conflict became one of trench warfare.

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