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The Rouncey: The Rise Of Horses

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The rise of cavalry also implemented the use of different kinds of horses. Most knights and men-at-arms road smaller horses. These horses were called coursers and rounceys. A courser was a swift and strong horse that was popular in hard battle as they were light, fast, and strong. The Rouncey was a term used in medieval times for describing an ordinary, all purpose horse. They could easily be trained for warfare and became the most common horse in warfare. Destriers were to expensive and coursers were preferred for hard battle, making the rouncey the most common horse among the ordinary knight.Contrastingly, the spanish used a light cavalry horse known as the jennet, an ideal light riding horse.
Despite all the presence of various horse breeds,

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