A Lancer was a cavalry soldier who fought with a lance. An army unit consisting of mounted soldiers are commonly known as cavalry. ... A Norwegian soldier (a Corporal, armed with an MP-5) A soldier is a person who has enlisted with, or has been conscripted into, the armed forces of a sovereign country and has undergone training and received equipment to defend that country or its interests. ... The term lance has become a catchall for a variety of different pole weapons based on the spear. ...

Although cavalry had used lances for thousands of years, lancers in the modern European sense originated in Poland in the 18th Century. Polish lancers serving with the French Army proved highly effective during the Napoleonic Wars, and by the end of the war all major European states had established lancer regiments of their own. World map showing location of Europe A satellite composite image of Europe Europe is geologically and geographically a peninsula, forming the westernmost part of Eurasia. ... (17th century - 18th century - 19th century - more centuries) As a means of recording the passage of time, the 18th century refers to the century that lasted from 1701 through 1800. ... La Grande Armée (in English, the Big or Grand Army) is the French military term for the main force in a military campaign. ... The Napoleonic Wars lasted from 1804 until 1815. ...

Lancers typically wore a double-breasted jacket (kurta) with a coloured panel (plastron) at the front, a coloured sash, and a square-topped Polish cap (czapka). Their lances usually had small swallow-tailed flags (known as the lance pennon) just below the spearhead. Czapka is a Polish generic word for a cap. ... A flag is a piece of cloth flown from a pole or mast, usually intended for signaling or identification. ...

Some regiments were still carrying lances during World War I, but they were quickly proved to be no match for modern firearms. Some cavalry units today are still designated as Lancer regiments, even if they now go to war in armoured fighting vehicles. Missing image Ypres, 1917, in the vicinity of the Battle of Passchendaele. ... A firearm is a kinetic energy weapon that fires either a single or multiple projectiles propelled at high velocity by the gases produced by action of the rapid confined burning of a propellant. ... An armoured fighting vehicle (AFV) is a military vehicle, equipped with protection against hostile attacks and often mounted weapons. ...

In the present-day British Army there are two regiments that retain the disinction of being designated Lancer regiments -- the 9th/12th Royal Lancers and the Queen's Royal Lancers. The Lancer regiments are grouped in the Line Cavalry order of precedence with Dragoons and Hussars, all of which are below Dragoon Guards. The two remaining Lancer regiments act in the Formation Recconnaissance role, employing the Scimitar light tank. The British Army is the land armed forces branch of the British military. ... The 9th/12th Royal Lancers (Prince of Waless) is an armoured regiment of the British Army. ... The Queens Royal Lancers (The Death or Glory Boys) is an armoured regiment of the British Army. ... A light dragoon from the American Revolution A dragoon is a soldier trained to fight on foot, but transport himself on horseback. ... Polish Hussar Hussar (original Hungarian spelling: huszár, plural huszárok) refers to a number of types of cavalry used throughout Europe since the 15th century. ... FV107 Scimitar is an armoured reconnaissance vehicle, although sometimes classed as a light tank used by the British Army. ...

In the Polish and German languages, the lancer is known as the Uhlan. Uhlan dressed in the characteristic czapka. ...

See also

• Uhlan
• Polish cavalry

• In Final Fantasy Tactics, Lancer was another name for a Dragoon.
• The Lancer is a model of car made by Mitsubishi.
• The Lancer is also the mascot of several high schools in the United States, including Shawnee Mission East in the Shawnee Mission School District and East Union High School in Manteca, California.