Vesuvius Could Erupt Again National Geographic says Naples is in danger. Regional authority and civil defence reply that escape scenarios have been reviewed....
From: <ducdallas@...> ... IIRC re-enactors have found that you can by hooking the pilum over the top of the shield (with the wider bit where the wooden and...
... Elephants at both Gabiene and Paraitakene? This would be right at the beginning of Hellenistic war elephant usage and suggest supporting light troops were...
... splitting ... front, flanks ... long time ... the army ... By the way, I recently read a theory that the Romans at Cannae intended to cut the Carthaginian...
... In what way would firearms change the equation? Apart from lines being thinner, which seems a good reason for them to be more endangered by rear attacks...
... It has been suggested here before that a linear unit extends to stop the enemy getting round its flanks and attacking it in the rear. Very few people on...
One can shoot a stiffer arrow of a lighter bow, the problems would come from having an arrow with weak spine from a heavy bow, The Munitions bows and arrows...
There were two Mary Rose bows that were brought up from the wreck in the mid 1800s. Obviously the number of bows that could be studied now is much greater, but...
Well we are getting into the age of gunpowder here, but if no one objects .... Anyway this is getting way overanalysed. My intitial/only point (which seems to...
... the mid 1800s. Obviously the number of bows that could be studied now is much greater, but there are different view points on actual draw weights and has...
Of course the only reason you train troops is not to think, but to do what he is told. Also if you ran away where would go, Roman would decimate units that...
Now we are letting mythology into the mix. Any amateur historian can cite several occassions where Roman troops cut and run -- and worried about being ...
... We can't, I think, just as we can't give actual combat examples of most other ancient tactics as no memoirs remain. We do have drill books however. For...
You have to look at elephants beyond the Hellenistic world. Ancient Indian practice has each 'war elephant' accompanied by a sizeable group of infantry....
... cite some ... in a ... people on ... would ... turn to ... Brian has a good point Jim. Surely if someone managed to about turn and fend off a rear attack...
... they get ... before 'impact'. ... driven ... That's interesting because it does not seem to happen. Alexius Comnenus derives a new march formation that...
Actually, when I asked whether such a maneuver would be _possible_ (under battle conditions), I had in mind whether it could be an option for an ancient...
The subjects are very interesting, indeed. Would you or Nigel care to keep us informed if any are published in English? May I ask is there any reason as to the...
Also I just got from the web Military fortifications, weaponry, warfare and military strategy in ancient syro-pakestine (Iron age IIA) by Gary Leroy Human for...
... turned ... are ... we ... turn ... could ... common that ... have the ... surrounded and ... attacked from ... roman ... Well, if the Gauls can do it I'd...
Hello I am looking for physical descriptions of the armies of Meroe? The Kushites of Meroe dominated Egypt at one point and later used Ptolemaic (?) style war...
... draws on Josephus and ... Agricola. He makes the case that >many of the "heroic" incidents recorded by Roman authors, were performed by Auxilia rather...
... For the later period you can try: THE MEDIEVAL KINGDOMS OF NUBIA: Pagans, Christians and Muslims along the Middle Nile. Welsby, Derek A. However, I think...
... The question of bad terrain and auxilia came up on another list in a debate about Ammianus description of Roman types. The reason given by Tacitus for the...
