08-21-2001, 07:52 AM
That cavalry dismounted to fight when needed in strange situations does NOT really suprise me, also because I now do remember reading similar passages. But it is interesting that they would do it against other cavalry. They must have had training to fight on foot as a group because I imagine that individuals on foot have the disadvantage against mounted ones.<br>
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QUESTION: If the cavalry trooper is not armoured and, especially, the horse is not (unlike Cataphracts), what were the odds in a one-on-one fight between a foot soldier and a cavalry man (before stirrups)? I would think that the advantage of having a heavy horse to use to physically bump the man on foot might be somewhat cancelled by the possibility of the foot soldier to wound the large horse with a javelin, spear or sword (didn't Ceasar's men at Phalarsus stab at the bellies of the Pompeian horse?). <p></p><i>Edited by: <A HREF=http://pub45.ezboard.com/ugoffredo.showPublicProfile?language=EN>goffredo</A> at: 8/22/01 10:06:29 am<br></i>
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QUESTION: If the cavalry trooper is not armoured and, especially, the horse is not (unlike Cataphracts), what were the odds in a one-on-one fight between a foot soldier and a cavalry man (before stirrups)? I would think that the advantage of having a heavy horse to use to physically bump the man on foot might be somewhat cancelled by the possibility of the foot soldier to wound the large horse with a javelin, spear or sword (didn't Ceasar's men at Phalarsus stab at the bellies of the Pompeian horse?). <p></p><i>Edited by: <A HREF=http://pub45.ezboard.com/ugoffredo.showPublicProfile?language=EN>goffredo</A> at: 8/22/01 10:06:29 am<br></i>
Jeffery Wyss
"Si vos es non secui of solutio tunc vos es secui of preciptate."
"Si vos es non secui of solutio tunc vos es secui of preciptate."
