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  2. 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.

  3. Equites cataphractarii - Wikipedia

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    Modelled on the cataphracts of Parthia, they were armoured from neck-to-toe by a variety of armour types, probably including: scale armour (lorica squamata), mail armour (lorica hamata), and laminar armour (see manica). A number of descriptions indicate that helmets with visors shaped like human faces were worn.

  4. Military of the Sasanian Empire - Wikipedia

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    Reconstruction of a Sasanian-era cataphract. A medieval Armenian miniature representing the Sasanian War elephants in the Battle of Vartanantz. The backbone of the Spâh in the Sasanian era was its heavy armoured cavalry, known since Classical antiquity in the west as Cataphracts. This was made up of noblemen who underwent extensive exercises ...

  5. Byzantine army - Wikipedia

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    Historically, the cataphract was a heavily armed and armoured cavalryman who saw action from the earliest days of Antiquity up through the High Middle Ages. Originally, the term cataphract referred to a type of armour worn to cover the whole body and that of the horse. Eventually the term described the cavalryman himself.

  6. 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.

  7. Heavy cavalry - Wikipedia

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    Byzantine cataphracts were a much feared force in their heyday. The army of Emperor Nicephorus II , the 'Pale Death of the Saracens' himself, relied on its cataphracts as its nucleus, coupling cataphract archers with cataphract lancers to create a self-perpetuating 'hammer blow' tactic where the cataphract lancers would charge again and again ...

  8. Grivpanvar - Wikipedia

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    The Grivpanvar (literally: neck-guard wearer) were an elite late Parthian and Sasanian division who fought as heavy cataphract cavalry. According to Roman sources, the Grivpanvar had the ability to impale two men on the long, heavy spears that they carried.

  9. Cataphractus - Wikipedia

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    Cataphractus may refer to: . Cataphractus Gronow, 1763 – synonym of Pegasus; Cataphractus Catesby, 1771 – not available; Cataphractus Edwards, 1771 – synonym of Acanthodoras ...