Download or read book Forts and Roman Strategy written by Paul Coby and published by Pen and Sword Military. This book was released on 2022-09-08 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Paul Coby here proposes a new system for the recording and mapping of Roman forts and fortifications that integrates all the data, including size, dating and identification of occupying units. Application of these methods allows analysis that brings new insights into the placement of these forts, the units garrisoning them and the strategy of conquest and defense they underpinned. This is a new and original contribution to the long-running debate over whether the Roman Empire had a coherent grand strategy or merely reacted piecemeal to emerging needs. Although the author focuses on several major campaigns in Britain as case studies, the author stresses that his method's are also applicable to elsewhere in the Empire. Lavishly illustrated with color maps, the book is also supported by a website and blogs, encouraging further investigation and discussion.
Download or read book Forts and Roman Strategy A New Approach and Interpretation written by Paul Coby and published by Pen & Sword Military. This book was released on 2022-05-30 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Paul Coby here proposes a new system for the recording and mapping of Roman forts and fortifications that integrates all the data, including size, dating and identification of occupying units. Application of these methods allows analysis that brings new insights into the placement of these forts, the units garrisoning them and the strategy of conquest and defense they underpinned. This is a new and original contribution to the long-running debate over whether the Roman Empire had a coherent grand strategy or merely reacted piecemeal to emerging needs. Although the author focuses on several major campaigns in Britain as case studies, the author stresses that his method's are also applicable to elsewhere in the Empire. Lavishly illustrated with color maps, the book is also supported by a website and blogs, encouraging further investigation and discussion.
Download or read book The Grand Strategy of the Roman Empire written by Edward Luttwak and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2016-05-18 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A newly updated edition of this classic, hugely influential account of how the Romans defended their vast empire. At the height of its power, the Roman Empire encompassed the entire Mediterranean basin, extending much beyond it from Britain to Mesopotamia, from the Rhine to the Black Sea. Rome prospered for centuries while successfully resisting attack, fending off everything from overnight robbery raids to full-scale invasion attempts by entire nations on the move. How were troops able to defend the Empire’s vast territories from constant attacks? And how did they do so at such moderate cost that their treasury could pay for an immensity of highways, aqueducts, amphitheaters, city baths, and magnificent temples? In The Grand Strategy of the Roman Empire, seasoned defense analyst Edward N. Luttwak reveals how the Romans were able to combine military strength, diplomacy, and fortifications to effectively respond to changing threats. Rome’s secret was not ceaseless fighting, but comprehensive strategies that unified force, diplomacy, and an immense infrastructure of roads, forts, walls, and barriers. Initially relying on client states to buffer attacks, Rome moved to a permanent frontier defense around 117 CE. Finally, as barbarians began to penetrate the empire, Rome filed large armies in a strategy of “defense-in-depth,” allowing invaders to pierce Rome’s borders. This updated edition has been extensively revised to incorporate recent scholarship and archeological findings. A new preface explores Roman imperial statecraft. This illuminating book remains essential to both ancient historians and students of modern strategy.
Download or read book Roman Forts written by Margaret Mulvihill and published by Franklin Watts. This book was released on 1990 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines the structure and defenses of an ancient Roman fort, Roman military life, and the campaigns waged by the Roman Empire against its enemies.
Download or read book Forts and Roman Strategy written by Paul Coby and published by Pen and Sword Military. This book was released on 2022-09-08 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Paul Coby here proposes a new system for the recording and mapping of Roman forts and fortifications that integrates all the data, including size, dating and identification of occupying units. Application of these methods allows analysis that brings new insights into the placement of these forts, the units garrisoning them and the strategy of conquest and defense they underpinned. This is a new and original contribution to the long-running debate over whether the Roman Empire had a coherent grand strategy or merely reacted piecemeal to emerging needs. Although the author focuses on several major campaigns in Britain as case studies, the author stresses that his method's are also applicable to elsewhere in the Empire. Lavishly illustrated with color maps, the book is also supported by a website and blogs, encouraging further investigation and discussion.
Download or read book Outposts of the Roman Empire a Guide to Norfolk s Roman Forts written by David Gurney and published by . This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Roman Auxiliary Forts 27 BC AD 378 written by Duncan B Campbell and published by Osprey Publishing. This book was released on 2009-05-19 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With the vast expansion of the Roman Empire came a need for more and more fortifications to defend it. The borders of the Empire stretched through wildly different terrains which demanded a huge variety of different fortifications, depending on the local conditions and the threats faced by the different areas. The adoption of local troops (auxiliaries) and local building techniques at key strategic points on the outskirts of the empire led to an intriguing mix of strong Roman structure with unique culturally diverse elements. Describing the development of these hugely varied defensive systems, Duncan Campbell delves into the operation and social history behind the fortifications. With detailed color artwork and maps, he traces their history through the Batavian Revolt of the 1st century AD, which saw auxiliary units scattered far from their native regions, until the decline of the late-3rd and 4th centuries placed their fortifications in an increasingly pressurized and eventually untenable position.
Download or read book Book of Roman Forts in Britain written by Paul T. Bidwell and published by Batsford. This book was released on 1997 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bidwell describes the development of the forts from the invasion until the end of Roman rule in the early 5th century AD and uses archaeological evidence to examine the everyday lives of those serving in the army, from commanders to ordinary soldiers.
Download or read book People and Spaces in Roman Military Bases written by Penelope M. Allison and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2013-10-31 with total page 509 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Uses artefact analyses to investigate complex spatial and community relationships inside the walls of early Roman imperial military bases.
Download or read book Roman Forts in Britain written by David John Breeze and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Roman Army written by Pat Southern and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2007 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume spans over a thousand years as it offers a picture of one of the world's most noted fighting forces, paying special attention to the life of the common soldier. --from publisher description.
Download or read book British Forts in the Age of Arthur written by Angus Konstam and published by Osprey Publishing. This book was released on 2008-11-18 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When the Romans left Britain around AD 410 the island had not been fully subjugated. In the Celtic fringes the unconquered native peoples were presented with the opportunity to pillage what remained of Roman Britain. By way of response the Post-Roman Britons did their best to defend themselves from attack, and to preserve what they could of the systems left behind by the Romans. The best way to defend their territory was to create fortifications. While some old Roman forts were maintained, the Post-Roman Britons also created new strongholds, or re-occupied some of the long-abandoned hill-forts first built by their ancestors before the coming of the Romans. Packed with photographs, diagrams and full color artwork reconstructions, this book provides a unique examination of the design and development of the fortifications during the Age of Arthur, analyzing their day-to-day use and their effectiveness in battle. It closely describes the locations that are linked to the most famous warlord of the Dark Ages, the legendary Arthur - Tintagel, Cadbury and "Camelot". Although these great bastions were to eventually fall, for a few brief decades they succeeded in stemming the tide of invasion and in doing so safeguarding the culture and civilization of Post-Roman Celtic Britain.
Download or read book Soldiers and Ghosts written by J. E. Lendon and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2005-01-01 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sparta, Macedonia, and Rome--how did these nations come to dominate the ancient world? Lendon shows readers that the most successful armies were those that made the most effective use of cultural tradition.
Download or read book Roman Forts of the 1st and 2nd Centuries AD in Britain and the German Provinces written by Anne Johnson and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Roman Fort written by Peter Connolly and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1997 with total page 4 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes the design and construction of a typical Roman fort and the daily life of its commanding officer and soldiers.
Download or read book The Complete LNAT Guide written by Leslie Ho and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-03-31 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a complete and comprehensive guide for applicants sitting the National Admissions Test for Law (LNAT) examination. As a one-stop solution to performing well in the LNAT, this guide comes with tips, strategies, full practice papers, and answers with detailed explanations. Compiled by a team of LNAT mentors, consultants, and coaches with input from admissions officers, this book offers the most comprehensive and accurate practice papers available. The papers were vetted by Oxford and Cambridge graduates with personal experience of the examination, and are set to a standard of difficulty that is on a par with the actual LNAT. This provides students with a thorough and accurate simulation of the questions they will face. The Complete LNAT Guide: An Expert Guide to Success is an essential book for all applicants preparing to sit the LNAT examination.
Download or read book Byzantine Fortifications Protecting the Roman Empire in the East written by Nikos D. Kontogiannis and published by Pen & Sword Military. This book was released on 2022-05-30 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Byzantine empire was one of the most powerful forces in the Mediterranean and Near East for over a thousand years. Strong military organization, in particular widespread fortifications, was essential for its defense. Yet this aspect of its history is often neglected, and no detailed overview has been published for over thirty years. That is why Nikos Kontogiannis's ambitious account of Byzantine fortifications - their construction and development and their role in times of war - is such a valuable and timely publication.His ambitious study combines the results of decades of wide-ranging archaeological work with an account of the armies, weapons, tactics and defensive strategies of the empire throughout its long history. Fortifications built in every region of the empire are covered, from those in Mesopotamia, Syria and Africa, to those in Asia Minor, the Aegean and the Balkan peninsula.This all-round survey is essential reading and reference for anyone with a special interest in the Byzantine empire and in the wider history of fortification.
