"A characteristically historic survival in the Polish cavalry was the lance -- a thrusting weapon consisting of a tubular steel shaft about 3 m long with leather straps. Beneath the four-edged sharpened blade was a small pennant with the regimental colours, about 20 cm wide and 50 cm long; the lance weighed about 2.10 kg. Although the lance had not been used as a weapon, even on manoeuvres, since 1934, and after being banned was carried only on baggage-waggons, strangely enough cavalry troops re-adopted this seemingly outmoded weapon on the battlefield in September 1939."

- The Cavalry of World War II, by Janusz Piekalkiewicz (Stein and Day, 1980)

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