Re: Terrrain and phalanxes

From: KYER, JEFFREY <jeff.kyer_at_...>
Date: Thu, 02 Aug 2001 08:56:09 -0400


I think this might be becoming digest fodder?

Jeff

Andrew Barton wrote:

> > I'm afraid I'm going to have to disagree here. Alexander fought his
>
> major
> > battles on relatively level ground.
>
> I wasn't talking about Alexander. Alexander fought his battles a long
> way
> from Macedonia, with an army containing many types of troops besides
> the
> phalangites.
>
> The Macedonian army, however, had been around for generations before
> Alexander, and under Philip it conquered the equally hilly Greece.
> This
> while its main component was pikemen.
>
> Andrew
>

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