Famous Biography Containing Brief Biographies of Frederick the Great
Famous Biography Containing Brief Biographies of Frederick the Great
Arnold Thomas
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The velites or light infantry covered the front, and were ready to skirmish with the light troops andshng- ers of the enemy. , . •, . 4. * For some reason or other, which is not explained m any account of the battle, the Roman infantry were formed in columns rather than in line the liles of the 'maniples containing many more than their ranks This seems an extraordinary tactic to be adopted in a plain by an army inferior in cavalry, but very superior m infantry. Whether the Romans relied on the ...river us a protection to their right flank and their left Avas covered in some manner which is not men- tioned—one account would lead us to suppose that it reached nearly to the sea— or whether the trreat proportion of new levies obligea the Romans to adopt the system of the phalanx, and to place their raw soldiers in the rear, as incapable of lighting in the front ranks with Hannibal's veterans— it appears at any rate that the Roman infantry thouirh nearly double the number of the enemy, yet formed a hne of onlv~e(iual lenirlh with Hannibal's.
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