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Retarded Pimp posted:I always wondered how historically accurate that part of the movie was, considering it was filled with fintlock super human aiming powers. Well to be fair at least the main character was using a flintlock rifle instead of just a regular musket... the speed with which he reloads it (at least once while running at the same time) seems a lot more superhuman though.
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Oxford Comma posted:In the times of the Roman empire, if a Roman soldier died during duty, who notified the soldier's family. Or did that just not happen? Before the Marian Reforms, when soldiers were regular citizens (farmers etc.) who only took up arms when the state called upon them to do so, the families probably didn't hear about their deaths before the army returned from whatever campaign it had been on. When the Roman legions transformed into a professional fighting force, the soldiers were at first banned from marrying, and later on it was at best tolerated, but not encouraged. Soldiers would still often marry local women from whichever province their legion happened to be stationed in, but the Roman government generally didn't recognize these marriages even if their unit did. So if the soldier died, his wife and kids would probably know about it fairly soon since they followed the legions around. As for the parents and other relatives of the soldier, I don't know. I doubt they'd be notified of it, since the soldiers tended to come from poor backgrounds and had signed up for as long as 25 years. The parents don't really fit in that picture.
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Jul 30, 2012 14:49
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DarkCrawler posted:Guess what powered steam engines? Because they didn't dig all that stuff out with picks and hands. Not to mention the work that went into laying railroad tracks, which would have been quite a bit more challenging without the help of explosives.
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Jul 31, 2012 07:13
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Don't know about regular soldiers, but at least Joseph Wheeler served as a general first in the CS Army, and later in the US Army. Supposedly during the Spanish-American War he got a bit excited during one battle and yelled "Let's go, boys! We've got the drat Yankees on the run again!"
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Sep 19, 2012 16:37
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I think the knights of the Teutonic Order would sometimes wear helmets with big ol' horns in battles to intimidate their enemies, and some high-ranking samurai commanders would also wear them. Beyond that, most horned helmets seem to have been purely ceremonial, for parades, etc. Like the Waterloo helmet for example.
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Saint Celestine posted:The Fallschrimjagers took so many casualties that they never(?) undertook another airborne operation. They did do a couple of minor airborne operations later in the war, such as in the battles of Kos ans Leros during the Dodecanese campaign, where Fallschirmjägers and Brandenburgers were paradropped on to the islands, but yeah, nothing major.
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