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Κυριακή 24 Ιουλίου 2016

Barbarian Invaders and Roman Collaborators





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"The first ten years of the fifth century A.D. were the worst decade that Italy had experienced at the hands of foreign enemies since the days of Hannibal. In seven of these years powerful armies of barbarian invaders were on Italian soil. In each of the years 408, 409, and 410 Rome itself was besieged, and in 410 the city fell to a foreign enemy for the first time since Brennus and his Gauls captured it 800 years earlier. The civilized world was dumbfounded. There were less civilized Romans, however, who were by no means at a loss to know how to handle the situation."

How Napoleon Managed His Vast Armies


 Andrew Knighton

Charge of the French Cuirassiers at Friedland (1807) - by Ernest Meissonier



The wars fought by Napoleon Bonaparte were like nothing that had ever come before. His armies were vast in scale and constant in their activity, waging war across Europe and beyond. To manage such vast forces, he relied on a wide range of people and mechanisms to keep the military machine moving.