04-04-2007, 07:56 PM
Thankyou Matthew,
But I would like to find out more. Maybe horses did cope back then with battle but I fin dit hard to believe. Maybe the horses temperaments allowed them to or maybe it was the horses life and so it was just usual day to day life.
With so many accounts of missile use ( ie arrows, etc) i cannot believe that any general woudl send in the calvary first, what a waste of resources that would be.
Plus, being on vacation during many of the roman battles :? wouldnt hundreds of dead horses and calvary just clog up the battlefields before the infantry did their thing ?
But I would like to find out more. Maybe horses did cope back then with battle but I fin dit hard to believe. Maybe the horses temperaments allowed them to or maybe it was the horses life and so it was just usual day to day life.
With so many accounts of missile use ( ie arrows, etc) i cannot believe that any general woudl send in the calvary first, what a waste of resources that would be.
Plus, being on vacation during many of the roman battles :? wouldnt hundreds of dead horses and calvary just clog up the battlefields before the infantry did their thing ?
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"let the die be cast "
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"let the die be cast "
(Stefano Rinaldo)
