The Frankish heavy cavalry charge was the Crusader states' core battlefield tactic: an armored charge of couched-lance knights delivered as one concentrated shock against a single point of the enemy line. A typical Crusader army built its whole order of battle, infantry archers and turcopole light horse, around protecting the knights until the charge could be unleashed.
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Core ClaimScreen and protect the knightly charge with infantry and light cavalry until it can be launched as one concentrated shock against a single point of the enemy line. 1 Origin YearDated to the kingdom's own founding rather than to one battle; the tactic itself has no single point of invention in the sources consulted. Cross-Tradition Connections
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