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Seems like today's reenactors are doing a good job then :D
If they're not, they were in for a nasty surprise the first time they charged into a position with machine guns.
This is a year before the start of WW1, so that's likely precisely what happened. The start of the great war completely changed tactics and overall military doctrine. At the beginning, officers would often command cavalry charges against machine gun fire, with expected results
some of them may have in WW1
Yeah, that was my point.
Then it was a good point