Factoid of the Day
"In 1211 the Great Wall was effortlessly breached and in the next five years the Mongols completed what has been estimated as the conquest of one hundred million people by one hundred thousand solidiers".
(Islamic Imperialism - A History. Ephraim Karsh. Yale University Press 2006)
(Islamic Imperialism - A History. Ephraim Karsh. Yale University Press 2006)
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Who is that minx who seems to be a fan of yours?
Obviously mad as a run over squirrel.
Lost me there, I'm afraid.
If it was so easy to breach, why did they build it? Sounds like a NuLabourmake-work project to me.
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Oh yeah, that mybloglog malarkey.
Verity - it looks like the bit we all visialise when we think GWoC was built well after that particular invasion.
However rudimentary the breached barrier, it must have slowed down the horde somewhat, unlike the Maginot Line, which had guns that only pointed Germany-wards, and thus proved utterly useless when the Germans came through Belgium instead. In fairness, the guns at Singapore also proved useless when the Japanese attacked by land rather than sea.
Oh, I'm sure it slowed them down. But - this is a serious question as I really don't know - what about Hadrian's wall. Did it really serve to keep the Picts out?
V - difficult to tell, although having garrrison forts would have helped too. It has been suggested that it was also a projection of Rome's power and intended to overawe the Picts as well as to phyiscally block them.
it's a bit like offas dyke.the theory is that they were built to tell invaders of the power of the rulers not to actually serve as a barrier to invasion
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