12-24-2010, 05:59 AM
Quote:If they are claiming that (I'm not saying you are wrong, but I can't recall any off hand and I'm away from my books) then I don't think they have been reading much about medieval warfare.
I have had many conversations on this topic with a variety of authors, but in fairness it is not simply that men can find themselves in a compact mass, but what this video demonstrates so well. They can spontaneously form, move, break, reform, etc. All things that anyone who has watched a flock of song birds knows can be done.
Quote:Later medieval infantry had a well-documented problem of getting too tightly packed together in a tough spot, which made it hard to fight and could produce crowd forces inside a formation.
Do you mean the type of crowding that occurred with envelopment, as at Cannae, amida, adrianople, etc.? I would appreciate references to learn more.
Paul M. Bardunias
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A Spartan, being asked a question, answered "No." And when the questioner said, "You lie," the Spartan said, "You see, then, that it is stupid of you to ask questions to which you already know the answer!"
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A Spartan, being asked a question, answered "No." And when the questioner said, "You lie," the Spartan said, "You see, then, that it is stupid of you to ask questions to which you already know the answer!"
