in what war or battle from history was your favorite strategy or tactic used, what was this tactic that was used.
2007-12-01 15:17:53 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ History
I was always partial to flinging the severed head's of enemy warriors back at the enemy using catapults....very demoralising....but i guess war is hell, right?
2007-12-01 17:38:45 · answer #1 · answered by Its not me Its u 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well almost all battles are Strategic in some sense but my favourite and the most important battle in history if the Battle of Manzikert.
Picture this, land that had been Greek for over 1400 years is now being overrun by a people from Central Asia. You being the Byzantine Emperor, Romanus Diogenes has to stop this threat before you lose more land to Muslim invaders. The year is 1071, the place Byzantine Anatolia. The Byzantine tagmatas or divisions went out marching to Armenia where the Seljuk Turks had just finished sacking Armenian cities.
Your army consists of Byzantine Greeks, Norsemen/Russians and even Turks! Still your Byzantine tagmatas march out to meet the Turks. The Turks fall back. Your troops keep on marching but the mobile Turks on horseback simply trot backward to counter your movement. The sun is high and the temp. is hot. The Turks seeing the fatigue of your troops strike! The Turks slaughter your army of around 40,000 while possessing half your numbers. Your generals desert you and you happen to be captured. The Turkish leader, Alp Arslan spares your for a price so he can fight the Zengi of Mosul in Iraq.
With that the Turks began to settle Anatolia leading the Byzantines to call the Pope for a crusade, the revival of Europe after the Dark Ages, ruin of Constantinople, the Renaissance, Discovery of America and formation of the Modern World
2007-12-02 09:49:18 · answer #2 · answered by Roderick F 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
hadaou17 is referring to the Battle of Thermopylae involving the Greeks (Spartans and others) versus the Persians. Do not belief the movie, many more fought for the Greeks than 300 Spartans.
My favorite strategy was probably the siege tactics utilized by the Mongols' invasion of the West. Particularly their early use of biological warfare. The Mongols often catapulted diseased dead (or peices of the dead) over the wall to infect their enemies. Even though horrible, it was very innovative.
2007-12-02 00:04:42 · answer #3 · answered by SEM 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Civil War - beginning in 1863, the Union used black regiments in its invasion of the South, demoralizing the Confederates and fomenting rebellion among southern slaves while at the same time demonstrating to the world that black men can be just as bold and brave and courageous and disciplined as any other man.
2007-12-01 23:44:10 · answer #4 · answered by jimbob 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
the blitzkrieg tactic is still being used in the military today. i cant remember the first time the germans used it but it was sometime in ww2
2007-12-02 00:37:22 · answer #5 · answered by Dont get Infected 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Ok this may seem silly so don't laugh.
I always loved the story of the Trojan horse. It was a gift (so they thought)
Actually this was really sneaky. These days it would be kind of a wimpy strategy wouldn't it?
2007-12-01 23:23:31 · answer #6 · answered by momoftwo 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
i forgot they were it was, (i think they were spartans) but they made its so that their enemy had to squeeze through this narrow passage between these mountains, and as the enemies came through they would get slauthered one by one....like an assembly line of death, lol
2007-12-01 23:29:47 · answer #7 · answered by Hadou17 2 · 0⤊ 2⤋