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- Who are your favourite generals? | Page 14 | History Forum
All he did was charge in echelon to support the Hospitallers once it was clear that the enemy had abandoned their range advantage At Jaffa, he caught the enemy while they were encamped outside the city and besieging it, while the rest he enclosed within the settlement as they were storming it and caught them in narrow confines where they could
- Military Career of Alexander the Great, Start to Finish
The Macedonian infantry was good; that asks too much We also see nothing of the sort under Alexander afterwards - attacks en echelon being a quite different animal Alexander may well be on horseback but, on balance, the nature of the language of our only (and poor) literary source, Diodorus, describes, for me, infantry work
- Did Robert E Lee cause the Confederacy the war?
Firstly crossing the Potomac took several days, because the trains are much larger than the fighting echelon Lee started his trains across the river on the 15th, and it wasn't complete until the 17th
- The Spartan defeat at Leuktra and the Theban wedge.
One of several aspects of the battle that interest me is Epaminondas' use of a 'wedge' or echelon formation, the protruding columns arrayed 50 shields deep, this proved devastatingly successful, which indicates that sheer weight mass played a role in phalanx combat, at least in this battle
- If the Jock columns used by the British Army in North Africa in WW2 . . .
Echelon describes the shape of a formation Mutual supporting distance refers to the size of a formation, ie, how far apart the component units are from each other The idea of an all-arms formation is to make a unit that is independent of outside support
- Smoke and wind in the battlefield - History Forum
At the same time, Dohna's infantry was to move up on Kanitz' right in echelon to attack the Russian left, as well as relieve his comrade However, the commander of the Prussian right wing horse, Schorlemer, failed to support Dohna and left his flank up in the air against the Russian cavalry on their left wing, which swooped in and also
- How were the allies able to counter the strategy of Blitzkrieg in World . . .
Hold your positions, stop the infantry and support getting through, let the rear area guys take care of them or wait for them to break down for lack of fuel or your air support to take them out Tanks may cause carnage amongst your rear echelon guys but a 25 pounder shell though their glacis plate discourages tanks just as much
- Advantages and disadvantages of the feudal system
See the proces initiated in the wake of Charlemagne (who created the standard framework for feudalism by combining the already existing tools of the Beneficia and Vassalage together as one) was that of "Bastard-feudalism": power was usurped by a lower echelon again and again till it was firmly vested in the hands of the "seigneurs" (so it has
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