he The Battle of Waterloo Napoleon was just recently made emperor again in France in 1815. And his enemy’s had already formed an alliance against him. He only had one way to stay emperor and that was to fight his way through it. He had one main goal in his grand strategy to win the war and that was to isolate the allied and Prussian armies‚ and annihilate each one separately. This was a great strategy in theory because if he could destroy the coalition forces before they were reinforced then
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and 6‚000 cavalry‚ while the Carthaginians just had 40‚000 infantry and 10‚000 cavalry. Many Libyan‚ Numidian‚ Spaniard‚ and Celt mercenaries‚ joined the Carthaginians Army and greatly assisted in the victory. In the beginning‚ the Romans created a massive push forward‚ which succeeded in pushing Carthage back. After that‚ the Carthaginians attacked the flanks of the Roman Army. The Carthaginians are now so close to surrounding the Roman Army. During this time‚ the Carthaginian Cavalry‚ with help
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The Battle of Waterloo was fought thirteen kilometres south of Brussels between the French‚ under the command of Napoleon Bonaparte‚ and the Allied armies commanded by the Duke of Wellington from Britain and General Blücher from Prussia. The French defeat at Waterloo drew to a close 23 years of war beginning with the French Revolutionary wars in 1792 and continuing with the Napoleonic Wars from 1803. There was a brief eleven-month respite when Napoleon was forced to abdicate‚ exiled to the island
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HANNIBAL AND THE BATTLE OF CANNAE The battle of Cannae was a major battle of the Second Punic War near the town of Cannae‚ an ancient village in southern part of Italy. The battle took place between the outnumbered Carthaginian army under Hannibal against the Romans under the command of Lucius Aemilius Paullus and Gaius Terentius Varro. For the most part‚ the Romans were overpowered by the undermanned Carthaginian forces. Many historians agree that the battle of Cannae is one of the greatest
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battlefield. He would find and approve certain spots around the camp so that there was a clear shot of the enemy. When Napoleon was on the battlefield he had his artillery set up to protect and support the cavalry‚ not the infantry. The reason he used artillery to help cavalry was the fact that cavalry was only armed with a sabre‚ and not guns like the infantry. Even with the excellent training‚ both mounted and un-mounted‚ their sabre would not last them very long because all their fighting would be
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died in the Plains wars. The Indians had agreed to live on small reservations after the US government took away their land. At the Wounded Knee camp‚ there were 120 men and 230 women and children. At the camp‚ they were guarded by the US Seventh Cavalry lead by Major Samuel Whitside. During the year 1890 a new dance called the Ghost Dance started among the Sioux and other tribes. The Sioux’s Christ figure‚ Wovoka‚ was said to have flown over Sitting Bull and Short Bull and taught them the dance and
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Britain maintaining its military dominance was the way that the British organized their army. In the army‚ “there was a definite hierarchy amongst the various British land forces. At the top were the General and Staff Officers‚ Household Regiments of Cavalry and Infantry followed by those of the line.” (Boyle). This hierarchical structure allowed for easier management of what was the largest army at the time—a truly global force—based on the merit and credit of individuals and their
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In the meantime while Alexander is occupied luring Darius’s cavalry out‚ the two forces marched towards each other and started a battle. In the midst of the battle it was without a doubt as how Alexander’s general had predicted; Alexander left and center army would be struggling against the Persians and their wagons
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The sun was high on the sky and soldier were waiting on each sides of the field. English in full armor‚ heavy cavalry with lances‚ archers with long bows and infantry with nice steel sword. On other side there were Scots in kilts and no armor at all. Their cavalry ran away and their weapons were mostly farming tools. With this set up there were no doubt that Scots wanted to give up but then mighty William Wallace came and had a great
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England. This particular arrangement of stones is known as The Merry Maidens. Though the stone circle Merry Maidens may not be as widely known as other stone circles‚ it is still quite interesting and unique nonetheless. Merry Maidens is a late neolithic stone circle located two miles south of the village of St Buryan in the United Kingdom. It is less popular than renowned Stonehenge and considerably smaller in size.The Merry Maidens is one of the few true stone circles in Cornwall which is very unusual
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