Horses in War

[JoatSimeon at aol.com]

>X99Lynx at aol.com writes:

>If the Egyptians introduced the idea of the chariot as an archer platform

-- no, they did not introduce the idea of the chariot as an archery platform.
 This is simply wrong.

It long antedates Egyptian use.  Any standard text will so inform you.

>the first use of the horse in an offensive tactic was with the development
>of the Macedonian heavy cavalry

-- incorrect.  If you look at the Assyrian wall reliefs, you will see cavalry
being used both for mounted archery and carrying armored lancers.

>>and that includes Kadesh (an interesting word).

-- Kadesh was a chariot battle virtually _pur sang_.

1275 BCE was towards the _end_ of the period when massed chariots were the
decisive arm of middle eastern warfare.