CONTENTS. 



PERIOD I. 



TO THE FALL OF THE WESTERN ROMAN EMPIRE. 



INTRODUCTORY CHAPTER 



Origin of wars — Earliest weapons — DofenKivc anuour Hoon adopted — 

 Cliariots euiploj-ed to convey warriors into action — Chariota in the 

 Trojan War — In Egypt — In Assyria — In Persia — Chariots improved 

 by Cyrus the Great —Ancient Britons. 



CHAPTER I. 



Eauhest Cav.lry 



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Section I. — Scythian and Assyrian Cavalry. 

 Scythian horsemen — EarHest I'so of horsemen in Assyria. 



Section II. — Persian Cavalry. 



Cavalry under Cyrus the Great— Battle of Thynibra — Cavalry of Xerxes — 

 Cr.valry in the retreat of " Tlie Ten Thousand." 



CHAPTER 11. 

 (JREEK Cavalry 21 



Section I. — Athenian and Thessalian Cavali-y. 



Greeks not a cavalry nation — The i' var against Thebes — The Trojan 

 War — Thessalian cavalry — Lycui^uo said to have organized cavalry — 

 Messenian war — Character of early Greek cavalry — Battle of Marathon 

 — No cavalry in the Grecian army at Marathon— Operations before 

 the battle of Plataja — Battle of Plata;a — Subsequent increase of the 

 Greek cavalry — The Peloponnesian War — Ships built specially to 

 conve}' cavalry — Battle of Deliuni — Armament and organization of 

 Greek cavalrj' — Athenian cavalrj' — Spartan cavalry — Battle of Leuetra 

 — Battle of Mantinea. 



