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Wednesday, June 26, 2024

Battlefield Secrets | How did the Romans “Clean up” after battles?

VIDEO HERE  (12:32 minutes)

This video focusses on the Roman Army's remarkable workload of cleaning up after battles. What happened to the hundreds of dead and wounded on the battlefield? How did Romans loot the field and share it? And what did they do with enemy survivors and prisoners? This video answers all of these questions and more!

The Aftermath of a Battle (0:00)
The Wounded (1:54)
The Dead (3:03)
The Enemy Wounded (6:19)
The Equipment (7:45)
The Loot (9:04)

6 comments:

  1. Excellent nutshell, watched and downloaded. Sadly, college has all my world building, arting, and painting on hold. :( still good info, subbed to the channel.

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  2. .......So who cleans up now? Do we keep all of the seized weapons, clean them up and give them to the Taliban directly, or do we just give them a ride?

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  3. I recall a scene from "We Were Soldiers" where the Mel Gibson character tells the Sam Elliot character that he ought to get a M-16 rifle issued to him. Sam responded "If the time comes I need one, there'll be plenty lying on the ground". Never really thought about that before hand, but yeah that quote stuck with me.

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    1. Respectively, they were LTCOL Hal Moore and SGM Basil Plumley. That was a real exchange between the two the first morning on the battlefield at LZ X-Ray. If you've never read the book the film is based on I cannot recommend it highly enough.

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