Today I learnt

Today I learnt that it was the Magyars (not the Poles) who invented the Hussar (they were Heavy Cavalry). Hussars didn't have wings. It was the Poles who like a college students copied the Magyar Hussars and put wings on them to avoid plagiarism.

If you want to read about them, you can read here. Since AoE2 is a medieval game, I will stop at heavy cavalry. But in 1600s, these Hussars became Light Cavalry.

Spellings of various Hussars: Hungarian: huszár, Polish: huzar, Croatian: husar, Serbian Latin: Husar, Serbian Cyrillic: Хусар. The word Hussar is indeed pronounced as the Magyar word. It is a common English phenomenon with single s and double s - desert vs dessert, as vs ass, etc