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Africa North
Greece: All Mercenaries Must Withdraw from Libya
2021-07-15
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Posted by:Fred

#5  ^ sorry the links disappeared: try
https://sites.psu.edu/cams180hoplite/tactics-and-formation/formation/phalanx/
and
https://historum.com/threads/origins-of-the-phalanx.41300/

Posted by: Mercutio   2021-07-15 19:09  

#4  Re #2:
"The phalanx is a Greek invention that would come to define Greek warfare for much of the 7th-4th centuries (BC)".



Granted Alex & the boys perfected it (tho some military historians maintain it was his heavy cavalry that was the real hammer).
Posted by: Mercutio   2021-07-15 19:07  

#3  Prob a misspelling of Phallus.
Posted by: Skidmark   2021-07-15 12:49  

#2  ^Never had any - that's Macedonians.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2021-07-15 09:16  

#1  Or?
(How many phalanxes does Hellas have these days?)
Posted by: Mercutio   2021-07-15 08:41  

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