Another archaism during the early years of the 18th century were Hungarian horsemen known as Panzerstecher ("armour piercer"), equipped with an armour piercing sword, mail armour, an iron skull cap with mail aventail and a small shield. Initially, the Hungarian aristocracy did not normally wear mail armour on its own but under a cuirass, but this had changed by the second half of the 17th century, while their old lobster-tailed helmet had made place to the new, simple skull cap with aventail around 1630. Contributing many thousand fighters, the Panzerstecher successfully fought in the Great Turkish War, but after the defeat of the Hungarian uprising of Francis II Rákóczi in 1711, mail armour was restricted to a few hussar captains. It finally disappeared for good after the war of the Austrian succession.
