Book 23. (1 results) Renegades of Gor (Individual Quote)
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| 8 | 623 | Centuries View more quotes about later">later the stirrup and barbarian lancers would crush the world's most successful civilization. |
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Book 23. (7 results) Renegades of Gor (Context Quote)
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| 8 | 620 | And yet, how often, as with the Hyksos, in Egypt, did they ride in from the desert like a storm, their horses among the barley. |
| 8 | 621 | The mystique of the rider lingered unquestioned for centuries. |
| 8 | 622 | Alexander would turn cavalry into a decisive arm. |
| 8 | 623 | Centuries later the stirrup and barbarian lancers would crush the world's most successful civilization. |
| 8 | 624 | The very word for "Knight" in German is "Ritter," which, literally, means "Rider". |
| 8 | 625 | The ascendancy of the cavalry would remain unchallenged until the achievement of revolutions in infantry tactics and missile power, such things as the coming of the massed pikes, and the flighted clothyard shafts of a dozen fields. |
| 8 | 626 | Something of the same joy of the rider, and mystique of the rider, exists on Gor in connection with the tarn as existed on Earth in connection with the horse. |
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And yet, how often, as with the Hyksos, in Egypt, did they ride in from the desert like a storm, their horses among the barley.
The mystique of the rider lingered unquestioned for centuries.
Alexander would turn cavalry into a decisive arm.
Centuries later the stirrup and barbarian lancers would crush the world's most successful civilization.
The very word for "Knight" in German is "Ritter," which, literally, means "Rider".
The ascendancy of the cavalry would remain unchallenged until the achievement of revolutions in infantry tactics and missile power, such things as the coming of the massed pikes, and the flighted clothyard shafts of a dozen fields.
Something of the same joy of the rider, and mystique of the rider, exists on Gor in connection with the tarn as existed on Earth in connection with the horse.
- (Renegades of Gor)