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![]() Two variants on the couched lance charge developed, the French method, en haie, with lancers in a double line and the German method, with lancers drawn up in a deeper formation which was often wedge-shaped. The best known usage of military lances was that of the full-gallop closed-ranks charge of a group of knights with underarm-couched lances, against lines of infantry, archery regiments, defensive embankments, and opposition cavalry. ![]() ![]() The Byzantines used lance both overarm and underarm, couched. The Byzantine cavalry used lances almost exclusively, often in mixed lancer and mounted archer formations.
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