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Nonsensical figures

The figures mentioned on the Georgian side seem more fantasy material than anything credible and historicaly accurate. 30.000 .... knights - really ? and an additional 40.000 cavalry ? you are telling me that the Georgians were able to muster about 70.000 trained cavalrymen ( numbers rarely or rather never seen in history ) when the greatest cavalry force in human history numbered a 120.000 in total stretching all logistical limitations. While the Armenians are mentioned to have reinforced the Georgian army, there is no indicating that the Georgian-Armenian force was even half the size given in this article and if the Georgian king really had only cavalrymen at his disposal, the royal guard would have numbered at best several thousand and with additional cavalry nothing above 10.000 at very best. Such massive cavalry numbers are never mentioned in any Georgian source.

TheMightyGeneral (talk) 08:31, 9 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Nevermind, corrected the figure to 30,000 as stated by McLynn who was falsely attributed the fantastic figures of 60-70,000. In his book "Genghis Khan: the man who conquered the world" in Chapter 12 "The Great Raid", McLynn states that the Georgians had amassed 30,000 men for the second and decicive battle where George was defeated and mortally wounded.TheMightyGeneral (talk) 14:34, 15 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]