... Not really. The definition of (i) is: "Dispersed scouts riding equids, camels or deer. Horsemen skirmishing with crossbows." I don't see much scope for...
As I have no desire to labour the point any more on this topic my final thoughts are this- With very few exceptions, where an army had both infantry and...
I was informed about this article this morning- 'Salvete! In this thread http://www.romanarmytalk.com/rat/viewtopic.php?f=18&t=26357 Martijn has provided a...
... William Urban's "The Teutonic Knights - A Military History" (pp.104-5) has an account of the battle that matches the wikipedia version reasonably well...
On Fri, May 1, 2009 at 10:27 AM, Duncan Head <duncan.head1@...> wrote: [snip] ... Would the Livonian Rhymed Chronicle be available online anywhere? It...
This is the only English public holiday celebrated with pole dancing. The dour Scots are outraged by this and employ specially trained strong men to throw the...
... DR: Nope, that is mainly America as well I think. Britney Spears (or perhaps Britney Speared might be more appropriate) has asked for a pole to be erected...
On Fri, May 1, 2009 at 12:53 AM, Stuart <claymore64@...> wrote: [snip] ... For Jomsviking I suggest 'Mythical'. -- Andreas Johansson Why can't you be a...
... Would the Livonian Rhymed Chronicle be available online anywhere? PH> It would be nice to compare and contrast. There are quite a few extracts in the...
... In an army level square, the sides would be facing the same direction as the front, so no side slipping is needed. Remember that the combat part at...
... DR: Just read the online version - thanks for that. It does however appear that the Knights initially faced foot ("The men of Novgorod stood facing the...
... Not entirely true, Phil. Someone has already mentioned the Swabians at Civitate. There's also the incident at Ruspina when Caesar, surrounded by light ...
'The square as a unit formation faces in 4 directions and can move slowly forwards. To move at normal speed, it has to change into a column. It is an 18th...
... From: "Duncan Head" <duncan.head1@...> To: <DBMMlist@yahoogroups.com> Sent: Thursday, April 30, 2009 2:16 PM Subject: [DBMMlist] Re: State of play...
... <snip> ... Aside from the Swabians at Civitate, do you have any examples of such formations being used against mounted? The Roman testudo was used in...
... Does Xenophon actually say anything about the march formation used? In any case, that is not a unit level square, it's an army in a square, like Carrhae,...
... I don't recall the exact circumstances (the post predates my personal archives; sometime last year I think), but someone was saying that the French...
... From: "The Bruce" <livejazz@...> To: <DBMMlist@yahoogroups.com> Sent: Thursday, April 30, 2009 3:11 PM Subject: Re: [DBMMlist] Why are Janissaries...
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