cretan archers造句

• There was also a cavalry force of about 600, about 300 Cretan archers, and at least 400 Marganian, Letrinian and Amphidolian slingers.
• Following the conquest of Macedonia and of the independent Greek city-states, Cretan archers served as auxiliaries in the Roman army under the Empire.
• Once they were engaged, their position was fixed and they were vulnerable to an approach by the Macedonian infantry and Alexander s cohorts of Cretan archers.
• These included Balearic slingers, Numidian light cavalry, and Cretan archers; these units were called upon as needed to replace those that were eliminated from the Roman army.
• One of the last occasions on which Cretan archers are known to have played a significant role was as part of the garrison defending Constantinople against the Turkish army of Mehmet II in May 1453.
• Julius Caesar's armies in Gaul included Cretan archers, and Vercingetorix his enemy ordered " all the archers, of whom there was a very great number in Gaul, to be collected ".
• Alexander continued using Cretan archers and for the first time a clear reference to native Macedonian archers is made, although after the Battle of Gaugamela archers of Asian extract became commonplace and were organized into " chiliarchs ".
• During the Retreat of the Ten thousand following the Battle of Cunaxa in 401 Xenophon's hoplites were able to hold off pursuing Persian troops, with the aid of the Cretan archers who formed part of the Greek mercenary army.
• Though Cretan archers could be theoretically outranged by Rhodian slingers, they were widely recognized as being amongst the best light missile troops in the ancient world, and as such found employment as mercenaries in many armies, including Alexander the Great's and those of many of the Diadochi.
• The Second Punic War ( 218 201 BC ) saw the addition of a third element to the existing dual Roman / Italian structure : non-Italian mercenaries with specialist skills lacking in the legions and " alae " : Numidian light cavalry, Cretan archers, and slingers from the Balearic islands.