The Parthian armies included two types of cavalry : the heavily armed and armoured cataphracts and lightly-armed but highly-mobile mounted archers.
32.
The Turkish mounted archers attacked in their usual style-charging in, shooting their arrows, and quickly retreating before the crusaders could counterattack.
33.
Classic tactics for horse-mounted archers included skirmishing; they would approach, shoot, and retreat before any effective response could be made.
34.
He outdistanced a majority of his forces, arriving at Libourne by sunset with only 500 men-at-arms and 800 mounted archers.
35.
One of the few to concern himself with scouting the situation was Coucy, who took a group of 500 knights and 500 mounted archers south.
36.
There were 600 Huns and 400 Herules, all mounted archers, and 1, 400 or 1, 500 mounted bucellarii of Belisarius'retinue.
37.
On the Roman side, Ammianus attests one " vexillatio " of " equites sagittarii " ( mounted archers ) at Strasbourg.
38.
Large armies very seldom relied solely on skirmishing mounted archers, but there are many examples of victories in which horse archers played a leading part.
39.
Many countries developed their own styles of light cavalry, such as Hungarian mounted archers, Spanish jinetes, Italian and German mounted crossbowmen and English currours.
40.
Possibly some of the other cavalry regiments there carried bows as back-up weapons, but were not the dedicated mounted archers that the sagittarii were.
