Many Byzantine commanders and officers perished in the battle.

Vojislav's son, Radoslav is noted as having killed a Byzantine military commander on the battlefield.

In 1014 he was among the Byzantine commanders during the battle of Kleidion.

Constantiolus traveled through Antioch and questioned various Byzantine commanders on the subject.

Relations between the various Byzantine commanders were also fraught with tension.

Vahan and his Byzantine commanders did not manage to deal with this mounted force and use the sizable advantage of their army effectively.

At the end the nerves of the Byzantine commanders failed the test of nerve and stamina.

The Byzantine commanders were convinced that their strategy would be successful.

This points to a retention by Byzantine commanders of knowledge of the successful military strategies of the past.

The Byzantine commanders knew that the next target of the Muslims would be Alexandria.