-
mentions the
Thracian peltasts,
while Xenophon in the
Anabasis distinguishes the
Thracian and Gr****
peltast troops. The
peltast often served as a skirmisher...
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upkeep of
military equipment,
operated on the
battlefield as
psiloi or
peltasts; fast,
mobile skirmishing troops.
Weapons that used
copper were becoming...
- The
peltasts,
usually serving as skirmishers, were
armed with
several javelins,
often with
throwing straps to
increase stand-off power. The
peltasts hurled...
- is in the
central and
eastern areas of modern-day
Pernik Province. The
peltasts raised from the
Agrianes were the
elite light infantry of the Macedonian...
-
peltasts,
roughly 2,000 men were
selected to
serve in the
elite agema vanguard, with
other peltasts numbering roughly 3,000. The
amount of
peltasts varied...
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Ancient Greece and
Roman times in the form, for example, of the Gr****
peltast and psiloi, and the
Roman velites. As with the so-called "light infantry"...
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usually described as swordsmen, they
defeated a
Theban cavalry by
using peltast tactics, so they were
certainly skilled in
other areas of
warfare as well...
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describes a unit
called peltasts, a type of shielded, skirmishing,
light infantry. It has been
suggested that
these peltasts were a
picked corps, much...
- philosopher) 300
hoplites and 300
peltasts under Pasion the Megarian,
until he
deserted in
Syria 1,000 hoplites, 800
Thracian peltasts, and 200
Cretan archers (and...
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individually forged. The
Takabara were a rare unit who were a
tough type of
peltasts. They
tended to
fight with
their own
native weapons which would have included...
