Rensselaer Republican, Volume 28, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 December 1895 — The End of Chivalry. [ARTICLE]

The End of Chivalry.

At the battle of Morat in 1476 the impotence of the heavy mailed cavalry against trained foot soldiers was made strikingly apparent. Time and again the knights, led by Charles the Bold, charged the Swiss pikes, but in vain; the reign of chivalry was over. The man who wanted “little here below” West into the newspaper business.