Editing Lancer (section)

{{Short description|Type of light or heavy cavalry armed with a lance}}
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[[File:Vistula Lancer.jpg|thumb|upright=1.35|Polish Lancer (left) and Austrian Cuirassier (right) in a mêlée]]
A '''lancer''' was a type of [[cavalry]]man who fought with a [[lance]]. Lances were used for mounted warfare in Assyria as early as {{Nowrap|700 BC}} and subsequently by India, Egypt, China, [[Aswaran|Persia]], [[Hippeus|Greece]], and [[Roman horsemen|Rome]].<ref>Niels M. Saxtorph: "Warriors & Weapons of Early Times" {{ISBN|0-7137-0575-2}}.</ref> The weapon was widely used throughout [[Eurasia]] during the [[Middle Ages]] and the [[Renaissance]] by [[heavy cavalry]], but fell out of general use by the late 16th century,  before its revival by [[light cavalry]] in the early 19th century.

{{anchor|17th-19th century}}