The Thirteenth Colony (part four)

8 thoughts on “The Thirteenth Colony (part four)”

1. I definitely have a thing for a centurion uniform.

   Well his (Nero) lucky money was working in the fact that he was still alive. You’ve gotta look on the bright side.

   I love the smell of the countryside too. Uninfected by the great unwashed and all their trappings.

   So Quintus goes back…will he bump into Mattia on the way? Nah..she and her crew are destined for rape and pillage, methinks. And Quintus won’t be returning..

   Enjoying this. Thanks :)

2. The end of the story is one that comes from an actual event in Roman lore, so I will rely (to some extent) on history to end it. The conclusion of The Thirteenth Colony should go live on this blog on Tuesday, December 1.

3. Strange how that Hoplite style of fighting(and it's Roman successor) dominated for so long.

4. It carried on through the use of pikes (Swiss pikemen come to mind) to defeat cavalry. Even the arrival of early firearms didn't do much to stop it. Then they put bayonets on the end of muskets and the Hoplite method continued in form with massed ranks and bayonet charges or receive cavalry. The British square was a continuation of the phalanx used by Alexander – not exactly but in general form.

   The arrival of accurate artillery and the Maxim gun ended it in World War 1, but not before many tens of thousands died because of outmoded tactics.

5. I enjoyed that. Good bit of Rome hist/fict.

6. This one is growing legs… :-)

7. A novel, I tell ya. Larry says not, but…

8. It concludes tomorrow, and yes, John, it has a closed ending – – mainly because there is a historical thread that I followed when I chose to tell his fictional story.

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