ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on the Crusades that the details of Manzikert show a striking similarity to those of several later battles in which the chivalry of the West had to face the same Turkish tactics. The Turkish invasion was a scourge far heavier than that of the Saracens. The victorious barbarians went off in wild pursuit of the fugitives, and seem to have overlooked the outlying corps beyond the Imperialist right, the Turkish auxiliaries, who found themselves left without an enemy in sight. In the Turks could retire ad infinitum, while the Byzantines, continually moving farther from their camp and their stores, were at last brought to a standstill by mere fatigue. The Byzantine cavalry made such reply as they could, but, their skirmishers being outnumbered, suffered severely in the interchange of arrows, and many horses were disabled.
