Hi Folks, I recently finished a new page on Vercingetorix. It has a few spelling errors I am fixing now, but I was wondering what you folks thought? Thanks for...
Hey Jack, that was you posing as Vencingetorix and Caesar? :) The slide after the siege of Alesia didn't ever load. Good stuff! cheers, Miltos ... spelling...
... I was under the impression that the pilum was only meant to be thrown just before contact, so that a rain of pila would soften up enemy ranks as much as it...
... DEar Miltos, THey are some assumptiions beng made here that we must all understand. I asking and proposing at the same time. Throwing Pila just before...
... That's a nice way to put it :) However, I suspect that through their later use of ballistas, cavalry, auxilia, etc in the battlefield the Romans were fully...
Hi Miltos, That is indeed me. I trying to talk about the Gallic Wars from different points of view. I am sorry about the bugs in the page. Still a few kinks to...
... dear stan, more or less yes. Roman legios would advance in lines, regardless of maniples, cohorts or what have you. The pila shower just prior to contact...
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I read an article in Military History magazine comparing this battle with Waterloo. The Kadeshies tried to attack Tut while he was strung out, but he tuirned...
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Hi all, it's almost been a year, I think, but as I'm finally settling down again in my old/new/whatever life, I just thought to show up again. All the more so...
Hi Tess, I don't think the forts were meant to prevent fleets from sailing by. Probably they were there to home "rapid reaction" cavalry troops to fight off...
It sounds more like the comparison should be reversed. Tuthmose III had marched out of his territory to meet and defeat a growing confederate army (Canaanites...
... That's an interesting idea. Pity we don't know more about the buildings within the fort. I wonder, however, why the litus saxonicum is mentioned as a...
It's a interesting comparison though. In the sense that many have critisized Napoleon's daring tactics as opposed to Wellington's methodical stance, using the...
... saxonicum ... It could simply be that they built as many as they could (cost wise) or had time to. Or it could be that other reasons, besides defence from...
... Yeah, but those forts mainly date from the late third century, that's at least 100 years before the Romans left Britain (if they ever did; wonder whether...
I watched the film last night. Can't say I was too impressed. Not because Homer's story was changed here and there, I can understand this degree of liberty....
I am afraid I agree with you about how much better they could have made it. I was not impressed. You did not have any stirring grandure, and the heroic speachs...
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I was actually disappointed too..I'm a Turkish archaeologist and I've worked in the Troy excavation. Except the walls nothing was quite right about the...
They should put a disclaimer at this beggining of the movie were it says "Wa u will be shown has nothing to do with historical truth or even mythology" so we...
Or maybe they could have changed the name of the film to: "A City with Big Walls" So, how about the "one on one, fight to the death" between Achilles and ...
Sarcasm on: What you are describing actually makes it seam like the picture was pretty acurate by Hollywood standards. :Sarcasm off I do wish they would...
Good point about the sun rising from the sea Yagiz. Good point about the armour also. At least the majority of Trojans were carrying something approximating a...
The Hittite empire was smashed to pieces (literally) ca.1200 BC. The Trojan War took place ca.1100. Most likely the Trojans and the Achaians shared an almost...
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