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Show I INTERESTING STORIES Horses in Ancient Warfare I In the old days when the Romans tnd Greeks fought furious battles the charioteers droe their cars In 1 ftll directions, hurled their Javelins, HM tnd by the din and clatter of horses HD and wheels commonly threw the ranks of the enem; Into disorder, and, making their way arani; the squadrons of the enemy's cavalry, BB leaped down from their chaliots HR and fought on foot The charioteers BB then withdrew, little by Utile, out of the fight, and placed their 1 chariots in such a way that if they tuero hard pressed they could read-lly read-lly retreat to their own ide Thus In battle they afforded the mobility of cavalry with tho steadiness of infantry. Dally practice enabled them to pull up their horses at full speed when on a steep slope, or to run out on the pole and stand B on the yoke, and to get nimbly H' back Into the chariot. With tho introduction nf cavalry in the later Iron Age came larger H horses, but their use for this pur- 1 pose roems to have hen restricted to Isolated dfceas. There Is no BI doubt that the West German HH tribes as late as the campaign of B Caesar in Gaul, used only the shaggy pony It is said in cavalry actions they held It di' graceful and slothful to use any kind of a sad-ft sad-ft die. and Instead of charging in squadrons they dismounted and I fought on foot. As far as Eng land is concerned tho art of riding peems to have been Introdurcd by Rf the Normans. The Saxons appear to ha c been but Indifferent horsemen. |