Why do soldiers salute? Detailed answer

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Why do soldiers salute?

What is a "salute"? It means to show respect to a person of higher rank. It has been established that this was done in different ways at different times. Greetings in one form or another have always existed among all peoples. The forms of greeting were different: bows, kneeling, falling prone to the ground, various hand gestures. The military greeting, which is customary in the army - putting the right hand to the visor of the cap - appeared quite recently.

At the end of the XNUMXth century, junior officers greeted their elders, and soldiers saluted officers by removing their headgear. Civilians still bow to each other in this way as a sign of respect. This tradition probably dates back to the time when the knight had to raise the visor or remove the helmet in front of the lord. Raising your hand in greeting instead of taking off your hat had practical implications. As the soldiers set fire to the fuses of the muskets, their hands were soiled with soot. And to take off a hat with dirty hands meant to make it unusable. Therefore, by the end of the XNUMXth century, honor began to be given with a simple raise of the hand.

Officers or soldiers who carried a sword or saber, whether on horseback or on foot, saluted by raising their weapons, bringing the handle closer to their lips, then moving the weapon to the right and down. This form of greeting originates in the Middle Ages and is associated with religion, when a knight kissed the hilt of a sword, which symbolized the Christian cross. Then it became a tradition when taking an oath.

Author: Likum A.

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Why was King Richard I of England nicknamed the Lionheart?

The English king Richard I the Lionheart (1157-1199) was a typical medieval knight-adventurer. All his life he waged incessant wars, alien to the interests of England and costing her huge sums of money.

Participating in the third crusade (1189-1192), he continued to fight tirelessly even when everyone had already lost hope of recapturing Jerusalem from the Muslims. He was remembered "like a hedgehog because of the arrows that pierced his shell." During this campaign, Richard captured the island of Cyprus and the fortress of Acre (in Palestine). On the way back, he was captured by the Austrian Duke Leopold V, who handed him over to Emperor Henry VI, and was released only in 1194 for a huge ransom.

From 1194, Richard waged war with the French king Philip II Augustus, who sought to retake the lands owned by the Plantagenets in France.

Richard died from an accidental arrow during the siege of Chalus Castle in Aquitaine (France). About this fatal shot from a crossbow, one of his contemporaries said: "The ant killed the lion."

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