There were plenty of other punctuated failures to add to your point, like the missing legions that got ambushed in Spain, England, and near home while in pursuit of enemy. Centuries apart. My point is that Rome was a…
People romantically (har) think walls were there to keep the enemy out. It's actually to do the opposite, keep them in. They're chokepoints - takes a long time for even an organized body of people to cross an…
There were plenty of other punctuated failures to add to your point, like the missing legions that got ambushed in Spain, England, and near home while in pursuit of enemy. Centuries apart. My point is that Rome was a…
People romantically (har) think walls were there to keep the enemy out. It's actually to do the opposite, keep them in. They're chokepoints - takes a long time for even an organized body of people to cross an…