If his knights were to sweep the field, how would it go with Richard's cause?

How can a Norman hold the throne of England when his knights go down like chaff beneath an unknown Saxon mountebank?

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He was unable to complete many plans, due to internal dispute that culminated in his assassination at the hands of three of his own knights.

Livy claims that immediately after the victory, Maharbal urged Hannibal to push on at once with his cavalry upon Rome itself, promising him that if he did so, within five days he should sup in the Capitol.