- 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
- Pompey Magnus vs Scipio Africanus | Page 5 | History Forum
They moved supporting troops from the third echelon of infantry and attempted to form a flanking angle against the envelopment
- Did the Germans do well in WW2? | History Forum
Yes, it presented the Germans with a problem they could not solve Something else it did, however, was to generate massive casualties, both enemy and friendly Try running a second echelon against the same position you just assaulted with your first, and then your third echelon against a position you just assaulted with your second
- Was Hannibal the greatest battlefield general of antiquity?
The dead giveaway is the bow-shaped echelon formation that he placed the least-reliable troops in, and the fact that he was in the centre with them No other battle I've ever seen has used this for the centre infantry, and very few battles I've seen place the weakest troops in the centre This formation was unique to Hannibal, as I am aware
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