04-06-2008, 10:44 PM
.....good post, Robert
...but did you forget to nominate your candidate for 'most able general'? ...or is it that none sticks out above the others to your mind?
BTW, I agree with you that Attila as huge threat to Rome is decidedly over-rated, especially compared to some of the earlier threats that Rome had survived, but doubtless he seemed a huge bogeyman to contemporaries......I also have some severe reservations about the vast numbers of participants oft-quoted for the confrontation at Chalons between Attila, and Aetius and the Goths.......
...but did you forget to nominate your candidate for 'most able general'? ...or is it that none sticks out above the others to your mind?
BTW, I agree with you that Attila as huge threat to Rome is decidedly over-rated, especially compared to some of the earlier threats that Rome had survived, but doubtless he seemed a huge bogeyman to contemporaries......I also have some severe reservations about the vast numbers of participants oft-quoted for the confrontation at Chalons between Attila, and Aetius and the Goths.......
"dulce et decorum est pro patria mori " - Horace
(It is a sweet and proper thing to die for ones country)
"No son-of-a-bitch ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making the other poor dumb bastard die for his country" - George C Scott as General George S. Patton
Paul McDonnell-Staff
(It is a sweet and proper thing to die for ones country)
"No son-of-a-bitch ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making the other poor dumb bastard die for his country" - George C Scott as General George S. Patton
Paul McDonnell-Staff