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The Horse in History

Chapter 3: LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
By Basil Tozer
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The author traces the horse's influence from prehistoric domestication through classical antiquity, medieval warfare, and modern breeding, detailing chariots, cavalry, and notable animals from myth and history. He examines how horse culture shaped military tactics, trade, and social ritual, drawing on sources such as Xenophon, Herodotus, and later chroniclers while noting difficulties separating fact from legend. Medieval and early modern chapters cover royal studs, fairs, the rise of racing and the Thoroughbred, famous mounts in campaigns and court life, and techniques of horsemanship and training. The book concludes by charting breed developments, the importation of Oriental bloodlines, celebrated individual horses, and the species' gradual displacement by mechanized transport.

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

The Knight, Death, and the Devil
From an engraving by Albert Dürer.		 Frontispiece
Combat between Amazons and Attic heroes. Fourth century, B.C.
From a Greek vase in the British Museum.		 19
Greek coins showing horses in the early centuries before Christ 27
1. The Emperor Trajan, showing Roman style of riding
2. The Emperor Theodosius, showing saddle
3. A Parthian horseman, showing Parthian style of riding bareback
4. Sarmatian horse and warrior, meant to represent horse and rider in armour made of plates of bone or of horse-hoof		 33
A portion of the Parthenon Frieze, executed by Phidias about the year 440 B.C. 39
Roman soldier about to adjust “stocking” used in place of shoes
From Richard Berenger's “The History and Art of Horsemanship.”		 44
Roman soldier about to mount on off side
From Richard Berenger's “The History and Art of Horsemanship.”		 44
A Mauritanian horseman, showing how the Mauritanians and Humidians rode without saddle or bridle
From Richard Berenger's “The History and Art of Horsemanship.”		 44
Alexander the Great on horseback, about 338 B.C. The figure is believed to represent Bucephalus
From a bronze in the British Museum.		 55
Persians fighting with elephants against the Romans, about the time of Pyrrhus, 280 B.C. This picture has been wrongly attributed to Raphael
From an engraving.		 62
Caligula on horseback. About 37 A.D.
From a figure in the British Museum.		 79
Bayeux tapestry supposed to represent the Battle of Hastings, 1066 110
Statue of Colleoni by Verrocchio in Venice
From a photo by R. Anderson, Rome.		 203
Van Dyck's famous picture of Charles I. on horseback in the National Gallery, London
From a photo by Franz Hanfstængl.		 225
Oliver Cromwell on horseback
After the painting by Van Dyck.		 233
Horses of the Cavaliers, seventeenth century. From a painting in the possession of his Majesty King Edward VII.
From a photograph by Franz Hanfstængl.		 243
The Duke of Schonberg on a typical charger of the early seventeenth century
After the painting by Sir G. Kneller.		 257
Flying Childers, bred by Mr Leonard Childers in 1715, is said to have been “the fastest horse that has ever lived”
From a photograph by A. Rischgitz.		 269
Mr O'Kelly's Eclipse, the most famous thoroughbred stallion ever foaled, 1764
After the painting by G. Stubbs.		 273
Napoleon at Wagram
From the famous painting by Vernet at Versailles.
From a photo by Neurdein frères.		 279
Wellington's famous horse, Copenhagen
From an engraving (Photo by A. Rischgitz).		 280
Flying Dutchman, foaled 1846
From a life-size painting by Herring. By kind permission of the Earl of Rosebery.
From a photograph by W. E. Gray.		 285