Persian cavalry

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Often appears with: supply, logistics, and encampment · siege and fortification · roman retreat · maronga skirmish · elephants in battle · battle and tactics

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History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 2 secondary

Edward Gibbon · Written 1782; revised 1845 (for the later edition context of the modern title page)
Chapter XVI: Conduct Towards The Christians, From Nero To (6/11)

As Julian’s army advances toward the Tigris, Persian cavalry harass and eventually surround the Romans; despite fighting at Maronga with elephants and heavy losses, the Romans are slowed by heat and time, while supplies dwindle under retreat.

134, p. 357,) and Zosimus, (l. iii. p. 183.) The two last seem ignorant that their conqueror was retreating; and Libanius absurdly confines him to the banks of the Tigris.] As long as the Romans seemed to advance into the country, their march was observed and insulted from a distance, by several bodies of Persian cavalry; who, showing themselves sometimes in loose, and sometimes in close order, fai…