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- From: budden@trout.nosc.mil (Rex A. Buddenberg)
- Newsgroups: sci.military
- Subject: Re: triremes
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- Date: 24 Jan 93 15:59:43 GMT
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- From "Rex A. Buddenberg" <budden@trout.nosc.mil>
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- 1. Biremes and triremes generally sayed within eyeball range
- of the beach for navigation reasons. Read your Thucydides --
- in the Peloponessian Wars, Athenian vessels travelled to Sicily
- and coasted all the way.
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- 2. The Romans were not without an effective Navy, at least
- during part of their history. Hannibal went over the mountains
- after going through Spain because the Romans held sea control
- over the Med and prevented any landings on the Italian boot.
- This is the central example in Mahan's first book.
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- Rex Buddenberg
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