Cavalry

MUSLIM HORSE-ARCHERS IN ACTION

Cavalry 5 Min Read

‘If you wish to hoot and have a sword, drop the sword from your right hand, seize the wrist loop and slide it up the right forearm. Hold the bow and three arrows in your left hand. If you are on horseback and are also armed with a lance, push the lance beneath the right thigh. If you have a…

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Byzantine Cavalry Sea Landing 3 Min Read

Byzantine Cavalry Transport

Two possible variants of amphibious technique employed by Byzantine for landing in Crete In the first case (large illustration), the bow of the ship opened to let out a ramp of wood that allowed to disembark cataphracts and their horses. In the second case (smaller upper left), the bow has…

Byzantine Cavalry 12 Min Read

Byzantium and the Early Crusades I

The Battle of Manzikert was fought between the Byzantine Empire and the Seljuq Turks on August 26, 1071 near Manzikert (modern Malazgirt in MuƟ Province, Turkey). The decisive defeat of the Byzantine army and the capture of the Emperor Romanos IV Diogenes played an important role in undermining Byzantine authority…

Ancient Warfare Cavalry Roman 11 Min Read

Trajan’s Grand Strategic Objectives

Parthian Cataphracts (Fully Armoured Parthian Cavalry) Left: East Parthian Cataphract; Middle: Parthian Horse-Archer; Right: Parthian Cataphract from Hatra Osroes I was one of the sons born to Vonones II by a Greek concubine. He invaded Armenia and placed first his nephew Axidares and then his brother Parthamasiris on the Armenian…

Cavalry History 4 Min Read

The Strangest Race

JEB Stuart, White House, VA, June 29, 1862 The summer of 1862 witnessed one of the most unusual skirmishes of the entire American Civil War. Confederate cavalry commander Jeb Stuart received information that there were 5,000 Union soldiers guarding a nearby depot and decided to attack. As the sun rose…

Cavalry Intell Roman 6 Min Read

Roman Empire – intelligence services

The Roman Empire was encircled on all sides by enemies, who might come by sea as well as land, and needed to be defended by elaborate fixed fortifications as well as mobile armies. At the height of their power, Rome’s rulers preferred active to passive defence and maintained strong striking…

Cavalry Weapons 3 Min Read

lance

Assyrian cavalry with lances. Polish Winged Hussars. A long cavalry spear used for thrusting at the enemy. It was not a javelin, which it replaced among the Franks in the late 9th century. Early medieval lances were 8 to 10 feet long, usually carved from a sturdy wood such as…

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IMPERIAL RUSSIAN ARMY – RUSSO–JAPANESE WAR

On the eve of the Russo–Japanese War, Russian land forces were the biggest in the…

Cataphract camels

The Parthians and early Sassanian Persians made use of camel units; even experimented with cataphract…

BAYBARS AND THE MAMLUK SULTANATE

  The Mamluks under Baibars (yellow) fought off the Franks and the Mongols during the…

French Cavalry 1914

The French strategic cavalry was composed of ten cavalry divisions. This strategic cavalry would be…