-
exclusively designated as "
cataphracts". Vegetius,
writing in the
fourth century,
described armour of any sort as "
cataphracts" –
which at the time of writing...
- of the Saracens' himself,
relied on its
cataphracts as its nucleus,
coupling cataphract archers with
cataphract lancers to
create a self-perpetuating 'hammer...
- the
desert and
decisively defeated by a
mixed cavalry army of
heavy cataphracts and
light horse archers led by the
Parthian general Surena. On such flat...
-
found as far back as
classical antiquity. Many
historians believe that
cataphracts, with
scale armour for both
rider and horse,
influenced the
later European...
- the Iranians,
especially Achaemenid successors' cavalry, most
notably cataphracts (Grivpanvar). A
shift in the
terminology used to
describe Sarmatian weapons...
-
categorize them as
cataphracts (fully armored, a type of
cavalry not to be
confused with the Seleucid,
Parthian or
Byzantine cataphracts) and
aphracts (unarmored)...
-
cataphracts posed the
greatest threat to his men,
ordering instead a
diversionary attack with his
Gallic and
Thracian cavalry against the
cataphracts...
- by the aristocracy, were
heavily armored, and
ranged from
archers to
cataphracts. The word
comes from the Old
Persian word asabāra (from asa- and bar...
-
commanded the
elite cataphracts of the
Seleucid army and
seized Tel Hamra, a
foothill of
Mount Hermon, in the night. The
cataphracts opened the
battle by...
- both
Parthian and
Sarmatian cataphracts, who
represented a
wealthy feudal or
tribal elite equipped for war,
Roman cataphracts had no
social dimension, being...
