POLI 4040 Lecture 5: military politics 2
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The transition from roman to medieval warfare10/20/2015 4:03:00 pm. The rise, supremacy, and decline of heavy cavalry as the chief power in war. The new germanic tribe: the germanic tribes had improved their armaments, ironbound buckler, pike, scramasax (short stabbing sword), spatha (long cutting sword), francisca (battle-axe that could split the roman armor and shields). The battle of adrianople (a. d. 378: the battle began as the roman army attacked a barricaded camp of. The disaster of adrianople (a. d. 378: at the battle of adrianople, the romans lost emperor valens, the. Grand masters of the infantry and cavalry, the count of the palace, Bridge, rushed south when he learned of the norman landing in. Sussex: he only was able to use his own housecarl and the fyrd of the southern counties, king harold had roughly 10,000 men, which he placed between.
