02-15-2012, 10:01 PM
Quote:Exactly. You can't move 4 million men through the hot gates in three days. See Delbruck's paragraphs on the lengths of marching columns.
Where is this figure mentioned anywhere? You have totally lost me there.
And while it has bee na long time since I read up on this, I seem to recal lthere being mention of the entire progress, which included the need to hold the route back, open.
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[b]Legio XIIII GMV. (Q. Magivs)RMRS Remember Atuatuca! Vengence will be ours!
Titus Flavius Germanus
Batavian Coh I
Byron Angel
