The campaigns of Hannibal arranged and critically consideredLongman, 1858 - 195 páginas |
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... attack , would be unsuited to the present day , when its dense mass would present so favourable a mark to our gunners . The principal weapon of the phalangite was the pike , of twenty - four feet in length . The sarissa , as the pike ...
... attack , would be unsuited to the present day , when its dense mass would present so favourable a mark to our gunners . The principal weapon of the phalangite was the pike , of twenty - four feet in length . The sarissa , as the pike ...
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... attacked Gelon half a century earlier , and Dionysius half a century later . And even when we consider her armies with reference only to their efficiency in warfare , we perceive at once the inferiority of such bands of con- dottieri ...
... attacked Gelon half a century earlier , and Dionysius half a century later . And even when we consider her armies with reference only to their efficiency in warfare , we perceive at once the inferiority of such bands of con- dottieri ...
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... attack , although situated so far south of the Iberus . The Romans hoped doubtless by its means , to obtain a more forward footing in Spain , from which , when the Gaulic war should be terminated , they might sap the newly formed ...
... attack , although situated so far south of the Iberus . The Romans hoped doubtless by its means , to obtain a more forward footing in Spain , from which , when the Gaulic war should be terminated , they might sap the newly formed ...
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... attack the Carthaginian conquests in Spain . Hannibal effected this object speedily , though with great loss of life ; and having left Hanno with 11,000 men to guard his new conquest , and sent an equal number of his Spanish soldiers ...
... attack the Carthaginian conquests in Spain . Hannibal effected this object speedily , though with great loss of life ; and having left Hanno with 11,000 men to guard his new conquest , and sent an equal number of his Spanish soldiers ...
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... attacked the bewildered barbarians in front . These made a feeble resistance , and fled in confusion . The boats were instantly sent back for the second division , and before nightfall Hannibal's whole army , with the exception of the ...
... attacked the bewildered barbarians in front . These made a feeble resistance , and fled in confusion . The boats were instantly sent back for the second division , and before nightfall Hannibal's whole army , with the exception of the ...
Términos y frases comunes
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