"William Black" <william.black@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>"Rich Rostrom" <rrostrom.21stcentury@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
>
>Indeed it is possible that the English soldiers fighting for the Dutch
will
>go home and sign on with the Romans.
>
>A reasonable pro****tion of them will speak Latin
A few officers will know schoolboy Latin.
>
>> Incidentally, there were plenty of cases
>> of shock action overwhelming troops with
>> firearms well into the 19th century;
>> far better firearms than were around in
>> 1600.
>
>You need vast numbers for that, and the Romans don't have vast
numbers...
Not necessarily. It depends on the number
of defenders, of course. But in the American
Civil War there were successful bayonet
charges by brigades and even regiments.
And the Britannians have ~20,000 men - enough
to crush any gang of filibusters.
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