Re: OT: Historical Amnesia

mmeron_at_cars3.uchicago.edu
Date: 10/15/04 

Date: Fri, 15 Oct 2004 04:21:29 GMT

In article <10mug5h7afrjt8a@news.supernews.com>,  @ .  writes:
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>Alpha Omega <who@where> says...
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>>In addition it saw many innovations in warfare, artillery being one.
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>Artillery was a novelty, not really used in war until many years later.
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Oh, it was already used in the late stages of the Hundred years war,
not at the battlefield yet but in sieges. As such it played a major
role by enormously reducing the importance of fortified places.

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