10-18-2006, 10:06 PM
Robert wrote:
I think that would have been exactly their attitude. In fact the very same comment was made in another BBC documentary this week on the Suez crisis by a British soldier regarding the Egyptians. It is just our modern view of Empires that has changed.
D.B Cambell wrote:
Yes, I was looking forward to seeing some of the types of siege engines depicted in Connolly's book.
Some of those awful Imperial Gallic helmets were visible in the last episode with the 'v' shaped neck guard. Mind you I have even seen some re-enactors wearing those this year!
Graham
Quote:The Romans with with their "after all we did for you, you still rebel, you ungrateful lot" was downright sanctimonious,
I think that would have been exactly their attitude. In fact the very same comment was made in another BBC documentary this week on the Suez crisis by a British soldier regarding the Egyptians. It is just our modern view of Empires that has changed.
D.B Cambell wrote:
Quote:I kinda missed a proper representation of Jotapata!
What a wonderful siege, and all we got were some soldiers sneaking over a ridiculously low wall. (Remember: this was the siege where Josephus actually heightened the town wall!)
Yes, I was looking forward to seeing some of the types of siege engines depicted in Connolly's book.
Some of those awful Imperial Gallic helmets were visible in the last episode with the 'v' shaped neck guard. Mind you I have even seen some re-enactors wearing those this year!
Graham
"Is all that we see or seem but a dream within a dream" Edgar Allan Poe.
"Every brush-stroke is torn from my body" The Rebel, Tony Hancock.
"..I sweated in that damn dirty armor....TWENTY YEARS!', Charlton Heston, The Warlord.
"Every brush-stroke is torn from my body" The Rebel, Tony Hancock.
"..I sweated in that damn dirty armor....TWENTY YEARS!', Charlton Heston, The Warlord.
