Lexicographical Neighbors of Stradiot
Literary usage of Stradiot
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Excerpta Cypria: Materials for a History of Cyprus by Claude Delaval Cobham (1908)
"So the stradiot cavalry which was with the Count of Roccas at the Salines retired
to Nicosia as soon as the fleet arrived before the Salines, and remained ..."
2. The History of France by EYRE EVANS. CROWE (1860)
"... and had scarcely done so when his outposts were assailed by the stradiot cavalry.
The enemy were 35000 strong, four-fifths of them soldiers of Venice, ..."
3. The Cambridge Modern History by Adolphus William Ward, George Walter Prothero (1907)
"Her incomparable stradiot light-horse, swimming rivers and treating mountain
watercourses as highroads, pushed far into Florentine territory, ..."
4. The Historians' History of the World: A Comprehensive Narrative of the Rise by Henry Smith Williams (1907)
"During the heat of the battle the French baggage wagons were attacked by the
stradiot», a Greek corps recruited and paid by the Venetians. ..."
5. The Fortnightly Review (1877)
"... by the Tuscan Ranieri, the fugitives wore pursued and slain by the stradiot
lancers, and the Emperor was glad to make truce for the time with Yenice. ..."
6. Macmillan's Magazine by David Masson, George Grove, John Morley, Mowbray Morris (1896)
"... and one hundred stradiot horse, and gave the trumpeter such a fright that
never would he go near the town again. In decrying the Italian soldiery of ..."
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