Talált 66 Eredmények: Horsemen
And they distributed the beasts among the phalanxes; with each elephant they stationed a thousand men armed with coats of mail, and with brass helmets on their heads; and five hundred picked horsemen were assigned to each beast. (1 Maccabees 6, 35)
The rest of the horsemen were stationed on either side, on the two flanks of the army, to harass the enemy while being themselves protected by the phalanxes. (1 Maccabees 6, 38)
He built up Kedron and stationed there horsemen and troops, so that they might go out and make raids along the highways of Judea, as the king had ordered him. (1 Maccabees 15, 41)
So John chose out of the country twenty thousand warriors and horsemen, and they marched against Cendebeus and camped for the night in Modein. (1 Maccabees 16, 4)
Early in the morning they arose and marched into the plain, and behold, a large force of infantry and horsemen was coming to meet them; and a stream lay between them. (1 Maccabees 16, 5)
Then he divided the army and placed the horsemen in the midst of the infantry, for the cavalry of the enemy were very numerous. (1 Maccabees 16, 7)
And it happened that over all the city, for almost forty days, there appeared golden-clad horsemen charging through the air, in companies fully armed with lances and drawn swords -- (2 Maccabees 5, 2)
troops of horsemen drawn up, attacks and counterattacks made on this side and on that, brandishing of shields, massing of spears, hurling of missiles, the flash of golden trappings, and armor of all sorts. (2 Maccabees 5, 3)
Twenty thousand five hundred were slaughtered, besides six hundred horsemen. (2 Maccabees 10, 31)
They hurled themselves like lions against the enemy, and slew eleven thousand of them and sixteen hundred horsemen, and forced all the rest to flee. (2 Maccabees 11, 11)
When they had gone more than a mile from there, on their march against Timothy, not less than five thousand Arabs with five hundred horsemen attacked them. (2 Maccabees 12, 10)
But a certain Dositheus, one of Bacenor's men, who was on horseback and was a strong man, caught hold of Gorgias, and grasping his cloak was dragging him off by main strength, wishing to take the accursed man alive, when one of the Thracian horsemen bore down upon him and cut off his arm; so Gorgias escaped and reached Marisa. (2 Maccabees 12, 35)