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Message: <blockquote data-quote="SHARK" data-source="post: 227797" data-attributes="member: 1131">Greetings!Dig in Ulrick! Dig in!<img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />Chapter III: Savaging The Swiss, Overrunning The Germans____________________________________________________Quote, page 14:"...then had his legionaries build a sixteen-foot earth wall for eighteen miles along the bank of the Rhone from Lake Geneva to the Jura Mountains."____________________________________________________End Quote.What a feat of engineering skill! Imagine how constraining to the enemy such a fortification would be! The Romans seemed to be absolute masters of integrating even small engineering field-fortifications into a battle in the field, regardless of terrain, and regardless of whether the Romans were on the offensive, or the defensive. This magnificent skill was decisive in so many battles that the Romans engaged in, even against opponents that greatly outnumbered them. Soemthing else indeed!____________________________________________________Quote, page 23:"Even though they had been unprepared to fight, the Germans opposite ran so quickly to the attack that the legionaries didn't evn have time to throw their javelins. Dropping them, they drew their swords as the two armies came together."____________________________________________________End Quote.The Germans seemed to display unflinching courage and zeal for battle at all times, regardless of the odds against them. Even then, over 2000 years ago, the Germans were famous for courage and awesome military skills!____________________________________________________Quote, page 23:"Undaunted, men of the 10th brushed aside the spears and literally threw themselves on the front line of the German shields. Some wrenched shields out of the hands of their owners. Others reached over the top of the shields and stabbed the points of their swords into German faces. Using these aggressive tactics, the 10th soon routed the German left."____________________________________________________End Quote.The Romans answered the German's courage with absolute ferocity on their own! What a scene! Imagine the smaller Romans, lean and muscular, screaming in fury as they threw themselves against the larger Germans again and again, unrelenting!____________________________________________________Quote, page 23:"King Ariovistus and one or two others escaped in boats. But all the rest, including the king's wives and daughters, were hunted down and killed or captured by the Roman cavalry. East of the Rhine, when the Suebi reinforcements heard of the disastrous battle, they turned and fled for home. The 10th Legion could add another victory to its growing roll of honour."____________________________________________________End Quote.What alignment would the Roman cavalry be as they rode down the women and children? They can be expected to have raped and slaughtered the German women and children with ruthless ferocity. The Roman commanders encouraged such ferocity and terror. Interestingly, in our modern times, some claim that such ferocity of domination and slaughter will only serve to harden the enemies resistance against you, and create more resistance. History doesn't seem to bare that idea out. In the Romans case, they just continued to rape, slaughter, and enslave, until there were no enemies left to resist. Any peoples that remained on the sidelines certainly didn't think to resist. They quickly got ont heir knees and scraped and begged for mercy before the Roman might. The Romans didn't give a damn what these other tribes and peoples thought. They just crushed them ruthlessly until they got on their knees and begged for the Romans to spare them. What a foreign policy that made!Damn! The Romans are just relentless!Semper Fidelis,SHARK</blockquote>

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