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- Subject: Re: Drifting Away...
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- Date: 18 Dec 92 21:04:51 GMT
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- atterlep@vela.acs.oakland.edu (Cardinal Ximenez) writes:
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- > David Schroeder <ds4p+@andrew.cmu.edu> writes:
- > > Did infantry forces have entrenching tools?
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- > Having just completed a report on 14th-century warfare, I can say that
- > infantry of that time (and probably earlier) didn't use entrenching as a comm
- > defense, since it wouldn't be all that useful against cavalry charges. The
- > usual defense was a solid wall of long pointy things (pikes or even sharp
- > stakes a la _Henry V_) combined with a solid wall of shields to absorb the
- > force of the charge. Another common defense was to choose the terrain, which
- > won a number of battles for infantry fighters.
- > As Lothar pointed out, sappers would have used shovels as digging tools--bu
- > they were specialized units, not general infantry.
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- However the romans must have had some form of trenching tools. Their
- standard form of defense and nightly camp involved a ditch, berm (and lots of pointy
- things).
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- Chandra
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