03-08-2021, 11:28 PM
Renatus wrote:
And as such he would have been aware of a fundamental principle of Roman warfare, handed down from the days of Scipio Africanus, namely, that you must always leave your enemy a means of escape. A trapped enemy will turn and fight, to the death, if necessary, because he has no alternative. See Vegetius III, 21.
This site has an exit which wasn’t blocked apart from the fleeing Brythons and the waggons trying to leave. So there was an option to escape the carnage – see diagram
PITSTONE HILL 10.pdf (Size: 323.31 KB / Downloads: 10)
And as such he would have been aware of a fundamental principle of Roman warfare, handed down from the days of Scipio Africanus, namely, that you must always leave your enemy a means of escape. A trapped enemy will turn and fight, to the death, if necessary, because he has no alternative. See Vegetius III, 21.
This site has an exit which wasn’t blocked apart from the fleeing Brythons and the waggons trying to leave. So there was an option to escape the carnage – see diagram
PITSTONE HILL 10.pdf (Size: 323.31 KB / Downloads: 10)
Deryk