9 sentences with “horseback”

My grandfather always told me stories about his adventures on horseback when he was young.

I was able to perform horseback feats that I thought only the most skilled cowboys could achieve.

I was able to perform feats on horseback that I thought only the most skilled cowboys could accomplish.

A messenger on the Royal Road could cover 1,600 miles in a week on horseback, exchanging horses at posts along the way.

Orientals who could not afford to sail to California crossed the continent on foot, on horseback or in wagons. Others travelled from as far away as Hawaii and Europe.

The Assyrians adopted the horseback archery of the barbarians they fought from the north, which together with swords and short spears wielded on horseback made chariots permanently obsolete.

So, at a time when the speed at which a message could travel was limited by the speed at which a messenger could travel on horseback, the machinery of Roman government ground to a halt whenever the last emperor was weeks or even months away from Rome.

In many cases, powerful nobles could field personal armies as large as those of the king, especially since armies were almost always a combination of loyal knights (by definition members of the nobility) on horseback, supplemented by peasant levies and mercenaries.

Thus, at the end of the 15th century, wars were fought differently from the way they had been fought in the Middle Ages. There was still the symbolic core of the king and his elite knights on horseback, but the real tactical utility of cavalry charges began to fade.