01-28-2011, 11:03 AM
Aulus Perinnius wrote:-
A good start is this thread, just six months ago, which covered much the same subject.... where much valuable information was given by many participants, a lot of which I suspect is being repeated here!
RAT thread "Degradation of Greek cavalry in Hellenistic times"
http://www.ancient-warfare.org/index.php...&Itemid=40
You will find some of the physics behind collisions there, in posts by Paul Bardunias and others too numerous to mention, including you, Aulus !!
:grin:
There is an account of what really happened at Omdurman - but you will have to "google" fairly intensively for the 'eye-witness' accounts, often referred to in newspapers of the time......
Quote:Okay, I stand corrected I don't suppose you have any links?
A good start is this thread, just six months ago, which covered much the same subject.... where much valuable information was given by many participants, a lot of which I suspect is being repeated here!
RAT thread "Degradation of Greek cavalry in Hellenistic times"
http://www.ancient-warfare.org/index.php...&Itemid=40
You will find some of the physics behind collisions there, in posts by Paul Bardunias and others too numerous to mention, including you, Aulus !!
:grin: There is an account of what really happened at Omdurman - but you will have to "google" fairly intensively for the 'eye-witness' accounts, often referred to in newspapers of the time......
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(It is a sweet and proper thing to die for ones country)
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(It is a sweet and proper thing to die for ones country)
"No son-of-a-bitch ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making the other poor dumb bastard die for his country" - George C Scott as General George S. Patton
Paul McDonnell-Staff
