Uhlans were deployed in the Franco-Prussian War by the Prussian Imperial Army in a variety of traditional capacities, and one new one during the Siege of Paris.
The lance carried by the uhlans (and after 1889 the entire German cavalry branch) consisted of a 318 cm (ten foot and five inch) long tube made of rolled steel-plate, weighing 1.6 kg (three pound and nine ounces).