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[HI54UNI]

[Gil Dobie]

[Pwns]

Butt what about the crusades?

[Skjellyfetti]

Pretty dumb map.


This is the most obvious example that I guess wasn't significant enough to make the map of "crusader battles."

Capture of Constantinople by the 4th Crusade in 1204




Looks like roughly a dozen "crusader battles" - I'm assuming what qualifies as a "crusader battle" is a much higher bar.

[CID1990]

Pretty dumb map.


This is the most obvious example that I guess wasn't significant enough to make the map of "crusader battles."

Capture of Constantinople by the 4th Crusade in 1204




Looks like roughly a dozen "crusader battles" - I'm assuming what qualifies as a "crusader battle" is a much higher bar.

The map lacks a lot of information

which makes it only slightly less substantive than your reply to it


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[kalm]

Butt what about the crusades?

The Moops did some fine work but they were amateurs compared to the Vikings who paled in comparison to the Mongols.

[Gil Dobie]

Pretty dumb map.


This is the most obvious example that I guess wasn't significant enough to make the map of "crusader battles."

Capture of Constantinople by the 4th Crusade in 1204




Looks like roughly a dozen "crusader battles" - I'm assuming what qualifies as a "crusader battle" is a much higher bar.

Is the a capture of a city considered a battle?

Battle: a sustained fight between large, organized armed forces.

[Ibanez]

Pretty dumb map.


This is the most obvious example that I guess wasn't significant enough to make the map of "crusader battles."

Capture of Constantinople by the 4th Crusade in 1204




Looks like roughly a dozen "crusader battles" - I'm assuming what qualifies as a "crusader battle" is a much higher bar.

Is the a capture of a city considered a battle?

Battle: a sustained fight between large, organized armed forces.

Id say a battle most likely occurred if a city was captured.


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[Gil Dobie]

Is the a capture of a city considered a battle?

Battle: a sustained fight between large, organized armed forces.

Id say a battle most likely occurred if a city was captured.


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That's were you get into splitters and lumpers. Some say it's a Sack, not a Battle, others may consider it a Battle. It's all semantics, depending on what side of the discussion you are on. The people that made the map, apparently don't consider it a battle. Maybe there wasn't a large army putting up resistance, just citizens of the city.

[Ibanez]

Id say a battle most likely occurred if a city was captured.


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That's were you get into splitters and lumpers. Some say it's a Sack, not a Battle, others may consider it a Battle. It's all semantics, depending on what side of the discussion you are on. The people that made the map, apparently don't consider it a battle. Maybe there wasn't a large army putting up resistance, just citizens of the city.

About 35k combatants in the Siege of Constantinople.

A siege is a military tactic. A siege isn't just surrounding a place, halting imports/exports. Often times it's shelling (archery fire), trebuchets, etc... repeated assaults to annihilate a redoubt or fortification.


Yorktown, Boston, Charleston, Berlin, Stalingrad, Leningrad - all sieges that were assaults against the city.


But, I think you aren't realizing the order here.

A small series of skirmishes, military incursions or engagements (like a siege) make up a battle. A series of battles makes a war.

There are types of battles. A battle of encounter (think Gettysburg). A battle of attrition (Verdun in WW1). A battle of envelopment (Stalingrad)

[Gil Dobie]

That's were you get into splitters and lumpers. Some say it's a Sack, not a Battle, others may consider it a Battle. It's all semantics, depending on what side of the discussion you are on. The people that made the map, apparently don't consider it a battle. Maybe there wasn't a large army putting up resistance, just citizens of the city.

About 35k combatants in the Siege of Constantinople.

A siege is a military tactic. A siege isn't just surrounding a place, halting imports/exports. Often times it's shelling (archery fire), trebuchets, etc... repeated assaults to annihilate a redoubt or fortification.


Yorktown, Boston, Charleston, Berlin, Stalingrad, Leningrad - all sieges that were assaults against the city.


But, I think you aren't realizing the order here.

A small series of skirmishes, military incursions or engagements (like a siege) make up a battle. A series of battles makes a war.

There are types of battles. A battle of encounter (think Gettysburg). A battle of attrition (Verdun in WW1). A battle of envelopment (Stalingrad)

Seige of Constantinople was in 1203, the picture is from the Sack of Constantinople in 1204.

One definition I found was.
Sack: the destruction and looting of a city, usually after an assault.

Waiting for one of our Military aficionados to chyme in.

[Ibanez]

About 35k combatants in the Siege of Constantinople.

A siege is a military tactic. A siege isn't just surrounding a place, halting imports/exports. Often times it's shelling (archery fire), trebuchets, etc... repeated assaults to annihilate a redoubt or fortification.


Yorktown, Boston, Charleston, Berlin, Stalingrad, Leningrad - all sieges that were assaults against the city.


But, I think you aren't realizing the order here.

A small series of skirmishes, military incursions or engagements (like a siege) make up a battle. A series of battles makes a war.

There are types of battles. A battle of encounter (think Gettysburg). A battle of attrition (Verdun in WW1). A battle of envelopment (Stalingrad)

Seige of Constantinople was in 1203, the picture is from the Sack of Constantinople in 1204.

One definition I found was.
Sack: the destruction and looting of a city, usually after an assault.

Waiting for one of our Military aficionados to chyme in.

I can see your point. I'm no "aficionado" but from studying American Military History since 2002, i'm not some Monday morning quarterback.


They are both engagements.



*chime

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The Moops

[Gil Dobie]

Seige of Constantinople was in 1203, the picture is from the Sack of Constantinople in 1204.

One definition I found was.
Sack: the destruction and looting of a city, usually after an assault.

Waiting for one of our Military aficionados to chyme in.

I can see your point. I'm no "aficionado" but from studying American Military History since 2002, i'm not some Monday morning quarterback.


They are both engagements.



*chime

Chyme: the pulpy acidic fluid that passes from the stomach to the small intestine, consisting of gastric juices and partly digested food.

[Ibanez]

I can see your point. I'm no "aficionado" but from studying American Military History since 2002, i'm not some Monday morning quarterback.


They are both engagements.



*chime

Chyme: the pulpy acidic fluid that passes from the stomach to the small intestine, consisting of gastric juices and partly digested food.

I know what chyme is. Maybe I didn't get it.

[Gil Dobie]

Chyme: the pulpy acidic fluid that passes from the stomach to the small intestine, consisting of gastric juices and partly digested food.

I know what chyme is. Maybe I didn't get it.

Maybe because I spelled it wrong in my post.

[CID1990]

It was a liberation, given that the Ottomans invaded and took it from the eastern Holy Roman Empire about 50 years prior.

[Vidav]

[Gil Dobie]

[Gil Dobie]

[Ivytalk]

Looks like a deranged combination of a leprechaun and Mr. Spock.

[Gil Dobie]

But Hillary probably got more votes.

[Gil Dobie]

[Ibanez]

I can't stand that Wolf (or the gratuitious use of "Breaking News").

Hey - something that happened at 7am isn't breaking news at 5pm, Wolf.