The highly mobile Egyptian archers on the back of chariots were able to defeat the Hittite army. |
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Egyptian reliefs generally show Hittite chariots as heavier than their own, carrying a three-man crew. |
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There was a dull sound in the air, like the pounding wheels of distant chariots. |
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In 55 BC, Celtic warriors used cavalry and horse-drawn chariots to oppose Caesar's invasion. |
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Morgan emphasizes that these scenes show horses and chariots, the earliest such representations in fresco. |
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As we moved through the shadows, we slipped into an ancient world of horses, chariots and camels. |
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In that battle, Ahab was scarcely able to muster 7,000 soldiers much less any chariots or horsemen. |
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They produced bright, colourful paintings of chariots, horses, temples and other scenes associated with life in the time of the Romans. |
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Thousands carrying swords, tridents and saffron flags marched in front of the chariots all the way down to the river. |
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The centerpiece is the parting of the Red Sea and its subsequent disposal of Rameses's guards and chariots. |
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The makeshift chariots were pulled by Iraqi horses commandeered from looters in the area. |
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It is argued that Aryans brought horses and chariots into the Indian sub-continent and that accounts for their mention in the Vedas. |
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They made tools, ploughshares, chariots, chain armour, and many more strong and serviceable implements. |
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Just because it was once open to horse and carts or chariots means they could drive a double-decker bus down it if they wanted to. |
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They imported chariots and horses from Egypt and traded them on to the Neo-Hittite and Aramean kingdoms to their north and northeast. |
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The Chin army began a systematic advance at the same moment that their retreating chariots wheeled and fell on the Tzu-hsi's exposed flanks. |
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The Batavians came out of the Medway beyond the British lines and make their way behind the Britons towards the chariots. |
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These were two horse chariots which carried a driver and bowman. |
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And the Lord discomfited Sisera, and all his chariots, and all his host, with the edge of the sword before Barak. |
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David captured a thousand of his chariots, seven thousand charioteers and twenty thousand foot soldiers. |
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Elisha tells Namaan to come, and when he comes, it is with all the Aramean horses and chariots that have otherwise been deployed so bloodily on the battlefield. |
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Zechariah proclaims a King who comes as Saviour on a colt, not with horses and chariots. |
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By the 2nd millennium horses were used in war to pull light, two-wheeled chariots that carried a two-man crew. |
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On the command of both kings the horses of both chariots were unharnessed. |
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And David took from him a thousand chariots and seven thousand horseman, and twenty thousand footmen. |
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The Belgian lion is surrounded by various female allegorical figures and the chariots of Ceres and Neptune, land and sea. |
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They built a stone tramway in Pompeii which required the width of the chariots to be standardized with the width of the road. |
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For example, I recently learned that the width between two railroad tracks is the same distance between the wheels of Roman chariots. |
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Kadesh is sometimes said to have been the largest chariot battle ever fought, with thousands of chariots on both sides. |
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Triumphal arches and chariots have symbolized glory and victory. |
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In addition to infantry and cavalry, the Britons employed chariots, a novelty to the Romans, in warfare. |
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Why the owner of 10 000 chariots is haughty and disdains the entire world? |
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Having been tracked all the way along the coast by the British cavalry and chariots, the landing was opposed. |
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The stadion did not suffice for the races of horses and chariots which had been favorites with the Greeks since the Trojan war. |
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Races of chariots in operations in forming of the Roman legionaries, the incantations of the druids in the flasks of perfumes of the patricians, the Antiquity is resuscitated there. |
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Legend has it that Roman soldiers tipped their chariots over to play games on the spinning wheel as a diversion between campaigns, and others tell of monks bringing a wheeled game back from China in the middle ages. |
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Cairo's Egyptian Museum is largely empty and one can look at the gold sarcophagus of Tutankhamun, or his chariots, walking sticks, gloves, socks and underclothes, without anybody else getting in the way. |
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The forum was generally paved, and, although on festal occasions chariots were driven through, it was not a thoroughfare and was enclosed by gates at the entrances, of which traces have been found at Pompeii. |
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These Mesopotamian chariots were mounted by both spearman and charioteer, although it is doubtful that fighting was conducted from the vehicle itself. |
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Alexander arranged a double phalanx, with the center advancing at an angle, parting when the chariots bore down and then reforming. |
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War chariots furnished with scythes and spikes, like those of the ancient Gauls and Britons, are mentioned in literature. |
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The Hourrites exercised considerable influence over the religion of the Hittites, and spread the use of two-wheel chariots and the breeding of horses throughout the Near East. |
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Unlike their western Celtic neighbors, the use of chariots was not picked up by the early Germans. |
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For this scene, four horses pulling two full-size chariots were led onto a massive treadmill at centerstage. |
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Their troops fight from chariots, as did the Greeks in the Trojan War. |
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At the decisive encounter with Darius at Gaugamela, Darius equipped his chariots with scythes on the wheels to break up the phalanx and equipped his cavalry with pikes. |
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