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  2. Byzantine battle tactics - Wikipedia

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    The Cataphract Numerus formed a wedge of around 400 men in 8 to 10 progressively larger ranks. The first three ranks were armed with lances and bows, the remainder with lance and shield. The first rank consisted of 25 soldiers, the second of 30, the third of 35 and the remainder of 40, 50, 60 etc. adding ten men per rank.

  3. Praecepta Militaria - Wikipedia

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    The focus then turns to the deployment of the kataphraktoi and general tactics for cavalry fighting independently against both infantry and cavalry. Three aspects of battle have particular attention paid to them: how infantry were to defend against cavalry, how the kataphraktoi were to attack infantry, and how an army should pursue a defeated ...

  4. Late Roman army - Wikipedia

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    The first regiment of Roman cataphracts to appear in the archaeological record is the ala I Gallorum et Pannoniorum cataphractaria, attested in Pannonia in the early 2nd century. [157] Although Roman cataphracts were not new, they were far more numerous in the late army, with most regiments stationed in the East. [158]

  5. Cataphract - Wikipedia

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    Historical reenactment of a Sasanian-era cataphract, complete with a full set of scale armour for the horse. The rider is covered by extensive mail armour. A cataphract was a form of armoured heavy cavalry that originated in Persia and was fielded in ancient warfare throughout Eurasia and Northern Africa.

  6. Heavy cavalry - Wikipedia

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    It is difficult to determine when exactly the cataphract saw his final day in battle. After all, both cataphracts and knights fulfilled a similar role on the medieval battlefield, and the armoured knight survived well into the modern age. The Byzantines called all heavy shock cavalry kataphraktoi.

  7. Talk:Cataphract - Wikipedia

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    Include where possible, higher-quality and more detailed images of cataphracts, historical depictions of cataphracts, recreations of cataphracts, drawings (art or otherwise) and so forth. Re-do "Tactics and Deployment" section to focus more strictly on attributable cataphract strategies employed by their users in antiquity and not simply ...

  8. Kontos (weapon) - Wikipedia

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    The Roman contus was also wielded two-handed. The later Byzantine kontarion was used by Byzantine cataphracts, from c. 1100 it was used single-handed couched under the armpit, as was the contemporary knightly lance. The Sasanian lance, known as nēzak (Middle Persian), [3] used by the aswaran cavalry, was derived from the Parthian kontos. The ...

  9. Battle of Strasbourg - Wikipedia

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    The cataphracts took refuge behind the infantry lines, where it took the personal intervention of Julian himself to rally them. [111] Zosimus claims that one regiment of cataphracts refused to return to the fight and that after the battle, they were obliged by Julian to wear female clothes as punishment. [ 112 ] [