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re: Medieval battles
Posted on 8/13/16 at 4:39 pm to athenslife101
Posted on 8/13/16 at 4:39 pm to athenslife101
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The simple truth is only 5-10% of casualties of a battle happened during the battle itself. The 95% that remains are of people being ridden down when fleeing their highly structured formations. And even then, only 15-30% of an a losing army would be casualties.
You have a link to back up these statistics that you pulled out your arse?
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The ideas that battles were some sort of chaotic whirl of personal combat and individuals fighting.
How do you think they went?
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Posted on 8/13/16 at 5:10 pm to Breesus
I didn't pull them from my arse lol. Ive seen it discussed multiple times in books and articles and read the casultiybfigures for battles.
If you want a specific book:
Ghenghis Kahn and the making of the modern world goes into this when talking about the Mongols encountering Georgia. Knights.
Also, was recently about the 30 Years War where they talk about how gunpowder changed the battlefield and made the old formations useless and it went into the retreat numbers of the Middle Ages a bit. I do believe that book was The 30 Years War
If you want a specific book:
Ghenghis Kahn and the making of the modern world goes into this when talking about the Mongols encountering Georgia. Knights.
Also, was recently about the 30 Years War where they talk about how gunpowder changed the battlefield and made the old formations useless and it went into the retreat numbers of the Middle Ages a bit. I do believe that book was The 30 Years War
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