09-23-2003, 07:23 PM
I am currently reading Hannibal by Theodore Ayrault Dodge. It is an awesome piece of work; enough to make you wonder if modern scholarship has not slipped a bit.<br>
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Anyway, he refers to the famous Roman checkeboard (quincux) formation. I know that at one time it was widely thought that the Romans fought in this formation, but that now days this is not so widely accepted.<br>
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What I want to know is: can you refer me to any books or sources that describe how this fomation would have fought?<br>
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I can not work out how the legions could have come to grips with the enemy with gaps in the line.<br>
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Am not asking if they did fight this way (but feel free to comment on that too). I am asking for descriptions of how (even in theory) this formation would have been fought. <p></p><i></i>
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Anyway, he refers to the famous Roman checkeboard (quincux) formation. I know that at one time it was widely thought that the Romans fought in this formation, but that now days this is not so widely accepted.<br>
<br>
What I want to know is: can you refer me to any books or sources that describe how this fomation would have fought?<br>
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I can not work out how the legions could have come to grips with the enemy with gaps in the line.<br>
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Am not asking if they did fight this way (but feel free to comment on that too). I am asking for descriptions of how (even in theory) this formation would have been fought. <p></p><i></i>
Tom Mallory
NY, USA
Wannabe winner of the corona
graminea and the Indy 500.
NY, USA
Wannabe winner of the corona
graminea and the Indy 500.
