Your Rating:. Your Comment:. Read Online Download. Great book, The Queen pdf is enough to raise the goose bumps alone. In the same manner, the 1, men of the ninth legion were arrayed in three lines each of men, deployed men wide ten centuries by six men deep. The five man centuries in a cohort are deployed in column formation five men wide by twenty men deep. In this arrangement, the fourth line has a frontage of ten men thirty feet and a depth of men feet.
Plutarch has the six cohorts deployed behind the tenth legion. Of the 1, antesignani, antesignani were allocated to each ala. In this manner, each squadron was allocated fifty antesignani.
So he sounded the signal first and Caesar echoed it back. And now, as they came nearer together, there was first a discharge of arrows and stones. At this stage, Appian has the cavalry of both armies in advance of the infantry; and because of this the cavalry were the first to engage, whereas Caesar has the infantry engaging the infantry and cavalry engaging the cavalry simultaneously, while Florus and Plutarch have the cavalry engaging after the clash of the infantry.
After a brief interval they renewed the advance and discharged their missiles and quickly drew their swords. Of significant importance, Plutarch mentions that Pompey was slow in bringing his right wing in action; he kept looking in the other direction the left , waiting to see how his cavalry was doing.
In this manner, the tenth legion had a frontage of men. When the infantry combat began, Florus, Lucan and Plutarch claimed that Gauis Crassianus, a Caesarean veteran evocati centurion in command of men a maniple from the tenth legion was the first infantryman to rush out and engage the Pompeian infantry.
The Caesareans, therefore, were on their guard against this, and by wheeling round always managed to face their assailants, and when they came to close quarters with them, would seize hold of both men and horses in the eagerness of the struggle; for light-armed cavalry had been drawn up with their cavalry for this very purpose.
It was at this moment that cohorts four, five and six from the fourth line accompanied by the Caesarean cavalry and the antesignani charged the Pompeian cavalry. The slaughter of the retreating cavalry was accompanied by the destruction of the light infantry. The pilani were under orders not to throw their javelins but thrust them at the faces of the Pompeian cavalrymen.
Caesar writes that when the Pompeian cavalry routed, the Pompeian archers and slingers stationed behind the Pompeian cavalry, now left defenceless were slain. Having being run down by the routing Pompeian cavalry the archers and slingers were then set upon by the pursuing Caesarean force. Some persons praise this order of Pompey as the best in a case where one is attacked in flank, but Caesar criticises it in his letters.
He says that the blows are delivered with more force, and that the spirits of the men are raised, by running, while those who stand still lose courage by reason of their immobility and become excellent targets for those charging against them. Then as Appian records, these flank guards adopted open order and then attempted to ward off the incoming missiles.
Seeing the danger they were in, Appian reports that the auxiliary infantry, possibly those that had earlier fired their missiles from behind the hastati, had withdrawn and taken up position behind the pilani, and now seeing the threat of being outflanked fled to the camp and carried away anything they could carrying.
In order to maintain an unbroken front, as the first legion withdrew, so would the third legion next to it. So, as they had come up fresh and vigorous in place of the exhausted troops. Because the Pompeian first legion was being attacked in the flank and rear, it could not replace its fatigued lines with fresh troops. With the remaining pilani of the tenth legion now committed, the Pompeian first legion and third legion finally broke and routed.
As this proclamation was passed from man to man they halted, and the phrase "stand and fear not" began to be passed as a sort of watchword among Pompey's soldiers; for, being Italians, they were clad in the same style as Caesar's men and spoke the same language. Accordingly, the latter passed by them and fell upon the auxiliaries, who were not able to resist, and made a very great slaughter among them. If I had dismissed my army, I Gaius Caesar, after all my victories, would have been condemned in their law courts.
Caesar states that when Pompey returned to his camp, he retired to his tent and waited for events to unfold. Caesar does state that when Pompey returned to the camp, he informed the centurions of the praetorian gate that he was going round the camp to encourage the guards of the camp. The book has been awarded with Christy Award Nominee for Suspense , and many others. Please note that the tricks or techniques listed in this pdf are either fictional or claimed to work by its creator.
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