2006-12-15 06:52:20 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ History
The Romans despite being less skilled in navigation defeated the North Africans but that night most of the remaining fleet was lost in a storm at sea.
The Battle of Stalingrad and Napoleans bid in Russia was seriously effected by the armies becoming over-extended and weakening their supply lines , thus surcumbing to the cold of winter. Cold winter is also why Sitting Bull surrendered!
On D-Day weather forecasters predicted rain but Ike gambled and the invasion of Normandy is Allied history! There is also a famous story of a Japanese Prince who lost his bid and his life to the throne due to a storm at sea!
2006-12-15 08:28:58 · answer #1 · answered by namazanyc 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
A read a neat book called "Civil War Acoustic Shadows". It was part history and part physics. It was about how atmospheric conditions can be such that you can hear a battle going on if you're within a certain distance of it, or if you're very far a way from it, but there's a "shadow" in between where you might not even know it's going on. The book cited various examples of Civil War battles where this might have happened. It was pretty interesting.
Midway (WWII Pacific Theater) was a good example of nature having an impact. The Japanese carriers came in behind a storm front and couldn't scout the location of the American carriers because of it and ended up getting caught with their pants down.
2006-12-15 07:09:32 · answer #2 · answered by DGS 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Qubilai Khan twice attempted to invade Japan in search of gold; however, both times the samurai resisted firmly, and bad weather destroyed the fleets. The first invasion attempt took place in 1274, with a fleet of 900 ships. The second invasion occurred in 1281, with a fleet of over 1,170 large war junks, each close to 240 feet long. The Japanese were prepared for this invasion and they had built a wall several feet high on the island where Mongols were predicted to land, in order to prevent horses from coming ashore easily.
2006-12-15 07:01:38 · answer #3 · answered by snowynight 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
A hurricane sunk the Spanish Armada in the English channel, thus saving the English from a severe beating. The Armada was huge and could have easily sailed up the Thames River and leveled London.
The winter in Russia during the German invasion was one of the most severe. It saved the Russian Army and drove the Nazis out.
2006-12-15 06:56:35 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 0⤋
During the last ice age, North America was connected to Russia across the Bering Strait. That enabled migration by walking.
2006-12-15 08:46:34 · answer #5 · answered by Jean Talon 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Well before Hitler invaded Russia, Napoleon tried to invade Russia. The harsh Russian winter, combined with the sacrifice and industriousness of the Russian peasantry, combined to defeat one of the world's great military leaders with nary a shot being fired. Hundreds of Napoleon's troops died of exposure and hunger and he was forced to beat out a humiliating retreat.
2006-12-15 07:38:23 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
The rain and flood in river Jhelum during battel Alaxannder and Kinf Pours
2006-12-15 06:58:52 · answer #7 · answered by evertalall 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
How about a savage winter during WWII that stopped Hitlers march to Moscow
2006-12-15 07:00:27 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
When the waters of the Red Sea were parted to allow the Israelites to escape, but then flowed back again to engulf their pursuers.
2006-12-15 06:56:51 · answer #9 · answered by David H 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
the "parting of the red sea" in favor of the israelites, comes to mind. or, is that tale merely metaphorical/allegorical, relating actually to some phenomenon concerning consciousness? ;-)
2006-12-15 06:55:45 · answer #10 · answered by drakke1 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋