12-17-2007, 07:42 PM
I suspect it is something like the fact that soldiers in the Zulu wars used to wrap rags around their Martini- Henry rifles to protect themselves from burns when the guns overheated. You will not find that in the Queen's regulations or in any picture book but we know they did it!
I myself was incapacitated by a torn calf muscle after standing around in kit for a full day. I might just as well have been hit by a missile and if that injury could have been prevented by a piece of cloth wrapped around the lower leg I am sure Roman soldiers would have done something similar.
Nevertheless, there are indeed Roman accounts which mention leg wrappings and they are pictured worn by soldiers too. So I am somewhat puzzled as to why B&C were so dismissive of them.
Graham.
I myself was incapacitated by a torn calf muscle after standing around in kit for a full day. I might just as well have been hit by a missile and if that injury could have been prevented by a piece of cloth wrapped around the lower leg I am sure Roman soldiers would have done something similar.
Nevertheless, there are indeed Roman accounts which mention leg wrappings and they are pictured worn by soldiers too. So I am somewhat puzzled as to why B&C were so dismissive of them.
Graham.
"Is all that we see or seem but a dream within a dream" Edgar Allan Poe.
"Every brush-stroke is torn from my body" The Rebel, Tony Hancock.
"..I sweated in that damn dirty armor....TWENTY YEARS!', Charlton Heston, The Warlord.
"Every brush-stroke is torn from my body" The Rebel, Tony Hancock.
"..I sweated in that damn dirty armor....TWENTY YEARS!', Charlton Heston, The Warlord.
