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2021-07-15 Africa North

Greece: All Mercenaries Must Withdraw from Libya

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Posted by Fred 2021-07-15 00:00|| || Front Page|| [10 views ] Top
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#1 Or?
(How many phalanxes does Hellas have these days?)

Posted by Mercutio 2021-07-15 08:41|| 2021-07-15 08:41|| Front Page Top

#2 ^Never had any - that's Macedonians.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2021-07-15 09:16|| 2021-07-15 09:16|| Front Page Top

#3 Prob a misspelling of Phallus.

Posted by Skidmark 2021-07-15 12:49|| 2021-07-15 12:49|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2021-07-15 19:07|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2021-07-15 19:09|| Front Page Top

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