Hi, I was wondering what the deal was concerning historical gaps concerning what happened to the Sacred Band cavalry after the First Punic War?
It was noted that the Sacred Band had both a cavalry and infantry portion, recruited from the Carthaginian citizenry, the upperclass ones, to be used as a sort of training regiment.
Since one of the pivotal reasons why Hannibal lost Zama was due to a lack of sufficient cavalry, I was wondering if there were any stories or incidents noted about where the rest of Carthage's cavalry was when they were shipping Hannibal to Tunisia.
If the Sacred Band no longer had a cavalry portion because it got annihilated circa whatever, that is one thing. But it is another thing if the Sacred Band had its cavalry portion in tact, but political reasons prevented them from joining Hannibal at Zama.
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