On Sat, Jun 18, 2011 at 9:49 PM, Shane Mage <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Jun 18, 2011, at 6:52 PM, raghu wrote: > >> This is a new and intriguing take on the history of warfare, but >> somehow does not seem completely plausible. Anyone more knowledgeable >> on the subject care to comment? >> > Hannibal won overwhelming victories in pitched battles at Traseminae > and Cannae. > A lot of good it did him...or Carthage! > > And then, of course, there was Pyrrhus of Epirus...
It was the example of Pyrrhus that bothered me too, because it is in direct contradiction to Whitman's thesis. However we cannot write off his thesis if such counter-examples are rare and exceptional. -raghu. _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
