
EP8 Caesar at Hastings
Dan Carlin's Hardcore History: Addendum
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Catafracts - The Romans Faced the Parthians and the Sasonids
i'm suggesting that like the salukids at the battle of magnesia, the roman cohort that first gets hit by these cavalry breaks the romans. And i think they would have dealt with the norman nights too, even if that first cohort ran because, as I said, the romans are going to have a reserve. So imagine wat looks like on film: The 480 or so men are now running there's it's devolved into a million little battles,. One norman on two fleeing romans, you know. It's stretched out over a long space. A unit of formed men marching in formation, like a block, marches right up to that and then just tears
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