Life as a soldier in the Continental Army was tough...the soldiers of the Continental Army were primarily farmers who had no prior experience in warfare. America lacked the funding to supply the soldiers with basic needs such as shirts, jackets, socks, shoes, and food. In especially tough times like at Valley Forge, more soldiers left because of the raging cold and lack of supplies.
In 218 BC Hannibal left Tunisia with 38,000 infantry, 12,000 cavalry, and 37 war elephants. 26,000 men died on this insane trek and only a few elephants reached Italy.
Hannibal left from Croto (modern Crotone) in Calabria, the toe of Italy.
Well, in WW1 due to treaty of Versailles, Germany were only allowed an army of 100,000 men! In a German platoon, I'd say around 30-70 men
Many men did not want to fight because they saw no chance of winning in fighting the 'best' army and navy in the world. Also, the soldiers were under harsh conditions sometimes, especially in the winter with shortages of food and warm clothes.
The Carthaginian general Hannibal Barca had to cross 2 mountain ranges on his overland route fom Hispania ( modern day Spain ) to Italy. In the spring of 218 B.C., he left his winter camp in north east Spain and crossed the mountains of the Pyrenees. After crossing the Rhone River, his army including the remaining war-elephants, reached the Alps by the autumn of that year. The crossing of the Alps mountain range was arguably the most difficult section of the journey. It is believed that the crossing of the Alps in wintery conditions reduced his Army to almost half the size that had entered Gaul. As many as 20,000 infantry soldiers were lost in the crossing, many of them to the cold.
In 30+ years of historical study, I have never heard it called anything else except Hannibal's crossing of the Alps. The Romans believed that these mountains were an impassable barrier to protect them from a Carthaginian invasion by land. Hannibal's challenge was to get his army over the mountains, alive and intact, and with enough strength left to fight, and that is what he did. Perhaps there is another name for it which I am unfamiliar with.
Life as a soldier in the Continental Army was tough...the soldiers of the Continental Army were primarily farmers who had no prior experience in warfare. America lacked the funding to supply the soldiers with basic needs such as shirts, jackets, socks, shoes, and food. In especially tough times like at Valley Forge, more soldiers left because of the raging cold and lack of supplies.
The roman girl married when she was approximately 15-16!
In 218 BC Hannibal left Tunisia with 38,000 infantry, 12,000 cavalry, and 37 war elephants. 26,000 men died on this insane trek and only a few elephants reached Italy.
Those soldiers, such as Robert E. Lee and Thomas Jonathan "Stonewall" Jackson serving the he US Army, resigned their commissions as US officers.
the answer to this question is because of slavery. more slaves were coming into the army and whites left or blacks left because they didn't want to die.
Hannibal left from Croto (modern Crotone) in Calabria, the toe of Italy.
The British Expeditionary Force would have been wiped out.This would have left Britain without a standing army of regular soldiers.
Well, in WW1 due to treaty of Versailles, Germany were only allowed an army of 100,000 men! In a German platoon, I'd say around 30-70 men
Many men did not want to fight because they saw no chance of winning in fighting the 'best' army and navy in the world. Also, the soldiers were under harsh conditions sometimes, especially in the winter with shortages of food and warm clothes.
Germany push the French army and the British army back to Dunkirk. The British government sent different sizes of ships to pick up soldiers. Germany did kill ,many of the soldiers, instead Germany let them go. What's left behind is weapons form France and England. Germany has the victory.