
EP8 Caesar at Hastings
Dan Carlin's Hardcore History: Addendum
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The Battle of Waterloo
Faro: Napoleon had a lot of infantry formations that were formed up in column deeper than alexander's, and they still got right up to the anglo dutch lines. He says if you wait till someone's right in front of you and you fire a whole bunch of em at once, you can do great damage. The problem always comes with the reloading, because in this time period, that's a pretty slow process," he says.
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