THE SIEGE OF AMIDA (359): The Persian Assault That Turned a Roman Fortress into a Graveyard скачать в хорошем качестве

THE SIEGE OF AMIDA (359): The Persian Assault That Turned a Roman Fortress into a Graveyard

In the summer of three hundred fifty-nine AD, seventy-three days of hell transformed a Roman fortress into history's most expensive graveyard. King Shapur the Second brought one hundred thousand Persian warriors to crush seven legions trapped behind Amida's walls. When the gates finally splintered, thirty thousand Persian dead carpeted the siege works, and Rome's eastern frontier had been saved by men who knew they were already corpses. Think about those numbers. Seventy-three days. Thirty thousand elite Persian casualties to take one city. The largest army ever assembled by the Sassanid Empire, bleeding itself white against walls they should have breached in a week. I'm about to reveal three things that will shatter everything you thought you knew about ancient siege warfare. First, the tactical blunder that turned Shapur's siege towers into death traps. Second, why Persian soldiers preferred execution to another assault. And third, the Roman officer whose eyewitness account proves this wasn't just a defeat disguised as victory. SOURCES LINK: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siege_o... https://www.iranicaonline.org/article... https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Si%C3%A... https://www.roman-britain.co.uk/class...