The Schlieffen plan predicted a quick victory over France within six weeks, which was the estimated time it would take Russia to fully mobilise. After this both sides dug in and the ‘war of movement turned into a ‘war of Attrition’, essentially a stalemate, where one side would advance, be pushed back and then the other in successive waves. The weapons used by both armies were also more suited to defence than attack, this made breakthrough for either side difficult. Barbed wire was cheap and easy to produce, but very hard to penetrate. It was often up to 20m
Name: kartik Patel Subject: history 101 Professor: Dr. Gilbert stack Essay: Hannibal Hannibal Hannibal, a Carthaginian general and one of the greatest generals that ever lived was renown for his strategies and courageousness, such as crossing the Alps and using the bottleneck strategy at Lake Tradesmen. He used strategies that a lot of generals at this time, especially Roman generals, would never think of and in doing this he almost destroyed the Roman republic. From the middle of the 3rd century to the middle of the 2nd century BC, Carthage was engaged in a series of wars with Rome (Dorey, P 57). These wars, known as the Punic Wars, ended
“Peter had 100,000 men and abundant resources. Still Charles would not give up the idea of marching on Moscow, to capture which he had invaded Russia. In order to obtain provisions he determined to besiege the town of Pultowa.” Luckily, Menshikoff was at the rescue by helping them with their forces. That are closet to the part they are going to fight on. (Old and Sold) “The battle of Pultowa is one of the most famous battles in the world’s history.
The massive expansions made it so that Darius I’s empire was the largest the world has ever seen. The Romans expanded their empire much during the Punic Wars. In the First Punic War, Rome annexes Sicily, Sardinia, and Corsica. Rome conquers Spain, Macedonia, and Greek in the Second Punic War, and Egypt becomes a protectorate of Rome after the war. Paranoid of the constant rivalry with Carthage, Rome sieges it during the Third Punic War.
ersia is today the country of Iran. By the 5th century B.C.E., it was the largest empire the world had ever seen, surpassing the size of their Assyrian predecessors. Cyrus Is Desirous In 539 B.C.E., King Cyrus decided to expand the boundaries of Persia. He began by conquering Babylon. Unlike Assyrian kings, Cyrus was known for his mercy rather than his cruelty.
When he regained the throne from the priests in 521 BCE, his territory consisted of 1,865 miles East to West, and 933 miles North to South. It was at the time the largest empire ever, and it even included seventy separate ethnic groups. It was hard for Darius to maintain hegemony. He was having a problem with overextension of his territory, external threats, and internal threats all at once. So, Darius moved the capital to Persepolis.
Now just like in the first war Sparta couldn’t do it alone; so they asked the Persians to help conquer Athens. They asked their own enemy for help. This truly was a good example of history repeating itself. Mainly because Spartans defeated the Persians on land and Athenians defeated them in the sea. This time Spartans defeated the Athenians on land and the Persians defeated the Athenians in the sea.
The fact that throughout the duration of his reign Augustus had complete military authority made any form of senatorial resistance impossible. How did Augustus keep control of such a large body of troops? After Actium, it was Octavian’s main priority to reduce the size of the Roman army from 500, 000 (over fifty legions) to 300, 000 (28 legions – the standard number of legions for much of Augustus’ reign)[[26]]. This would enable two things: legionaries of dubious loyalties would now be disarmed, and fewer inactive troops with a pretext for mutiny. Those dismissed settled in veteran colonies – which were, of course, funded by Augustus'’ vast Ptolemaic treasure.
The Persian Wars was an 11-year skirmish between the Greeks and Persians. In the period 480 to 479BC, the 2nd invasion of Greece by the Persians, the Persians where defeated by the Greeks in seemingly impossible odds. One single factory cannot be held accountable for the Greeks’ victory, but rather an amalgamation of factors. These factors include unity and communication, morale, leadership, strategy, warfare, and geographical knowledge. Each factor played a definitive role in the various battles, ensuring the Greek’s ultimate success.
The Greek empire began with consolidation of Macedonia and the Greek city-states to fight the Persians in war by Phillip II. Alexander the great then took power and led the armies through Persia and assumed the throne. He then did not return to Greece he marched his armies east to the Indian Ocean and conquered most of the known world. Alexander did realize that he alone could not control all of his newly acquired territories alone. He received the alliance of the foreign countries by allowing them to continue their customs and traditions.