horse archers
Cavalry with bows
Horse archers are mounted warriors who shoot bows while riding, a military tradition associated with the steppe peoples of Central Asia—Mongols, Scythians, Huns, and others.
Their mobility and ranged firepower made them devastating against slower infantry formations.
The term appears in historical writing and strategy games: The horse archers harassed the Roman flanks before withdrawing.
- saddleMounted rider's seat
- quiverTrembling or arrow case
- mountedFixed in position
- cavalryMounted military force
- composite bowLaminated recurved archery weapon
stirrups · Scythians · steppe nomads · maneuverability · nomadic tribes · Mongol Empire · bow · raiding · thundering · recurve bow · yurts · swift · volley · hit and run · hooves · horde · plains · retreat
- archer typeslongbowmen, crossbowmen
- MongoliaGobi Desert, Inner Mongolia, steppe, Mongols, nomads
- cavalrycavalry, cavalryman, cavalry brigade, cavalry charges, cavalry officer
- East Asian Warfarebattles, warriors, soldiers, generals, infantry formations
- Mongol EmpireGenghis Khan, Mongol Empire, Kublai Khan, Mongols, khan
- Nomadic PeoplesMongols, Scythians, Huns, Tatars, Bedouins
horse archersinfantry
Ground combat troops
foot soldiers · pikemen · hoplites · musketeers · legionaries
horse archersheavy cavalry
Armored mounted soldiers
lancers · knights · cuirassiers · hussars · dragoons
horse, horses, horseshoe, horseback, horseman, archer, archery, horsing, archers