Who are your favourite generals? | Page 14 | History Forum
Sep 27, 2023 · All he did was charge in echelon to support the Hospitallers once it was clear that the enemy had abandoned their range advantage. At Jaffa, he caught the enemy while they were …
Military Career of Alexander the Great, Start to Finish
Jul 11, 2022 · The Macedonian infantry was good; that asks too much. We also see nothing of the sort under Alexander afterwards - attacks en echelon being a quite different animal. Alexander may well …
Did Robert E Lee cause the Confederacy the war?
Jul 28, 2016 · Firstly crossing the Potomac took several days, because the trains are much larger than the fighting echelon. Lee started his trains across the river on the 15th, and it wasn't complete until …
The Spartan defeat at Leuktra and the Theban wedge.
Aug 3, 2013 · One of several aspects of the battle that interest me is Epaminondas' use of a 'wedge' or echelon formation, the protruding columns arrayed 50 shields deep, this proved devastatingly …
If the Jock columns used by the British Army in North Africa in WW2 ...
Feb 28, 2025 · Echelon describes the shape of a formation. Mutual supporting distance refers to the size of a formation, ie, how far apart the component units are from each other. The idea of an all-arms …
What's Your top 15 best Military generals of all time and why?
Sep 14, 2024 · Such a general is a great subcommander but should never be considered in the top echelon of generals. Richard Gabriel correctly points out that his style of leading from the front is …
Did the Germans do well in WW2? | History Forum
Yes, it presented the Germans with a problem they could not solve. Something else it did, however, was to generate massive casualties, both enemy and friendly. Try running a second echelon against the …
Pompey Magnus vs Scipio Africanus | Page 5 | History Forum
Jan 3, 2025 · They moved supporting troops from the third echelon of infantry and attempted to form a flanking angle against the envelopment.
The 'Macedonian Phalanx' as an adoption/creation of Antigonus II Doson
May 5, 2025 · The evolution after that was Scipio and Hannibal with what he calls "echelon tactics", that is, the rear lines are completely tactically independent of the front line, which was not the case with …
Was Hannibal the greatest battlefield general of antiquity?
Jan 28, 2010 · The dead giveaway is the bow-shaped echelon formation that he placed the least-reliable troops in, and the fact that he was in the centre with them. No other battle I've ever seen has used …