Byzantine Weapons and Warfare

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Radek later added: "For example
the retinue of Lithuanian hussar Gosiewski, where were 1 comrade (senior hussar) and 2
retainers (junior hussars), had 21 horses in 1698. It is 7 horses for a hussar.
The retinue of Polish hussar Jakub Michałowski had 45 horses in 1649. The
retinue had 1 comrade and 7 retainers. It means that there were about 5,5 horses
for a hussar.
However most of these horses were wagon horses."

Also, last night I checked Luttwick 's assertion that byzantine Cav used remounts while the arabs did not (because horses were especially rare and valuable in arab lands, which lack extensive pasture lands) (Thus the Tactica says the best thing is to use archery to kill the arab horses, which they value so much they immediatly demoralize and go home). He does not, alas, quote a source about the byzantine remounts.