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carrying strap (or guige), as
Thracian peltasts slung their shields on
their backs when
evading the enemy.
Peltasts weapons consisted of
several javelins...
- The
peltasts,
usually serving as skirmishers, were
armed with
several javelins,
often with
throwing straps to
increase stand-off power. The
peltasts hurled...
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known as
peltasts would carry a
number of
javelins used to
pepper enemy formations,
avoiding close combat whenever possible. The job of the
peltast was not...
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nationalities also
provided peltasts for the
Macedonian army.
Especially numerous were the Thracians; the
Thracian peltasts performed the same function...
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either peltasts or cavalry, and
decided to take
advantage of this. Accordingly, the
Athenian hoplites formed up just
outside Corinth,
while the
peltasts pursued...
- 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...
- that
revolutionized ancient Gr****
warfare by
regularizing light-armed
peltasts.
Cornelius Nepos wrote that
Iphicrates was such a leader, that he was not...
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identical in function; indeed,
Byzantine peltasts were
sometimes described as "****ault troops".
Komnenian peltasts appear to have been
relatively lightly...
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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...
-
describes a unit
called peltasts, a type of shielded, skirmishing,
light infantry. It has been
suggested that
these peltasts were a
picked corps, much...
