Why Did Mounted Knights Fear Bog Ground?

Fifteen hundred pounds of warhorse and steel, charging at full gallop. One wrong step into soft ground, and the whole thing stops. The horse sinks. The rider can't dismount. And the mud won't let go. A fully armored knight on horseback weighed over fifteen hundred pounds combined. That weight pressed down through four narrow hooves. On firm ground, it meant unstoppable force. On boggy terrain, it meant the hooves punched straight through the surface and kept sinking. The suction trapped them in place. Once stuck, a knight in sixty pounds of plate armor couldn't climb off. The horse thrashed, sinking deeper. Water and mud filled the gaps in the armor. Drowning on dry land, surrounded by your own army. It happened more than once in medieval battles. At the Battle of Agincourt in 1415, French knights charged across rain-soaked fields. Hundreds became trapped in the mud. English soldiers walked up and killed them where they lay. Bog ground didn't just slow cavalry. It destroyed them. #CuriousHistory #History #Ground