PPT-Cavalry

History Through Film Mr Clark The American Revolution The American Civil war The American Civil war The Indian wars SpanishAmerican war World war I World war II World war II Coastal Plains. Is Us. Protecting The Public Good. The Cavalry . is us. Protecting the public good. Nicholas J. Percoco Joshua Corman. @c7five @. joshcorman. Nicholas J. Percoco. Director, Information Protection. 51. Greece Visual Vocab. 1. What is a landform with water on three sides? . City-state. island. lake. peninsula. 2. A democracy is…. A king or queen rules over the government . The ruler is the religious and political leader. Alexander’s . Army. (Copy this into your book!). Thessalian Cavalry. Led by Parmenio (2iC). Left-Wing. Largely defensive. Phalanx. 12000 men, led by Craterus and Coenus. Centre of Army. Fought close together with sarissae and locked shields. . Jun 14-18, 1815. Strategic Context. Napoleon Bonaparte returns to France in February 1815, assimilating every French soldier he meets into his growing army. Napoleon reaches Paris in March and offers peace to the opposing Allied coalition – but they choose war. Napoleon appoints his most talented and trusted subordinate, Louis Davout, as his minister of war and begins rebuilding an army. By June, Napoleon is able to field forces numbering over 230,000 against Allied forces of over 850,000 although the latter are dispersed and under various commands. Napoleon deploys small, defensive armies to guard the Pyrenees, the Alps, and the Rhine River against the Spanish, Italian, and Austrian armies respectively, and concentrates a large, offensive army in Belgium against the Anglo-Dutch and Prussian armies; the Russian army meanwhile marches slowly but steadily across Europe. Napoleon plans to destroy the Anglo-Dutch and Prussian armies before the other Allied armies can affect the situation. The French situation is not hopeless; Britain’s military is still dispersed after its war with the United States, Belgians, Germans and Poles are relatively anti-Allies while a decisive victory may force others to switch sides. Allied commander-in-chief Karl Phillipp Schwarzenberg plans an advance towards Paris by all armies on June 27 but Napoleon strikes two weeks earlier.. . August 9, 378. Strategic Context. Under pressure from the westward migration of the Huns and other Asiatic peoples in 372, the Visigoths and Ostrogoths begin migrating further south and across the Danube River to settle within the Roman Empire in greater numbers. In 376, Roman Emperor Valens formally allows these Gothic peoples to settle within the Empire on the condition they disarm. Starving and facing the exploitation of Roman officials, the Goths begin to hide their weapons. A general Gothic revolt against their hosts begins after a failed assassination attempt on Gothic leaders by the Roman military commander in Thrace, prompting Fritigern to unite the Visigoths and Ostrogoths. Valens hastily makes peace with the Persians to secure the eastern border and marches against Fritigern’s combined Gothic force. Fritigern raids into Thrace before retreating towards Adrianople where the Goths establish their traditional defensive position of wagons on a hill to await the Roman attack.. . [?], 326 BC. Strategic Context. Alexander the Great’s ambition drags himself and his army deeper into India after conquering the Persian Empire; now a vast array of powerful kingdoms stand before him. One such kingdom ruled by King Taxiles equips the Macedonians with equipment and supplies in exchange for help in subduing his rival, Pauravan King Porus. The Pauravan Empire fields an army that is more than a match for the Macedonians.. [?], 546 BC. Strategic Context. In 559 BC, Cyrus deposes Astyages of Media and begins to consolidate his new Persian state, which he accomplishes by 549 BC when he captures the Median capital of Ecbatana. However, he must confront a challenge in the west from Croesus of Lydia who wishes to restore his brother-in-law Astyages to the throne. Croesus organizes an alliance with Egypt and Babylon, crossing the Halys River to invade Persia in 547 BC. Cyrus marches to meet Croesus and a sharp, indecisive battle is fought at Pteria. Croesus withdraws across the Halys into winter quarters and sends many of his mercenaries home but Cyrus does not oblige and soon follows Croesus. At first, Croesus does not believe the rumours of Cyrus’ march through Anatolia but must hastily reassemble an army when the Persians approach his capital of Sardis. Though not as greatly as that autumn, Croesus still outnumbers Cyrus when they meet on the Plain of Thymbra.. . September, 52 BC. Strategic Context. Julius Caesar considers Gaul secure until it revolts under the leadership of Vercingetorix, an Arverni chieftain. Vercingetorix does not rely on an impulsive, barbarian offensive strategy as Caesar expects. Instead, the Gauls do not allow a decisive battle to take place for fear it will be a decisive defeat, and fight a partisan war by retreating and destroying everything behind them. Caesar grows impatient, especially after the failed assault against the fortress of Gergovia and the inconclusive skirmish at the Vingeanne. Vercingetorix retires to Alesia and Caesar follows; it appears Vercingetorix, pressured by his allies, is finally giving battle. . . September 7, 1191. Strategic Context. Caught up in the religious fervor of the Third Crusade, a Crusader army under Richard Couer de Lion executes the Saracen garrison of Acre and carefully travel south to capture the logistically vital port of Jaffa. Another Saracen force led by Saladin shadows the Crusader caravan for some time, harrying it with skirmishers and missiles. Richard maintains tight discipline in his ranks as his formation slowly moves south, while the Crusader fleet follows along the coast to keep the army supplied. Saladin concentrates to ambush the Crusaders before they reach Arsuf.. . [?], 317 BC. Strategic Context. As Alexander the Great lays dying in 323 BC, he is asked who should inherit his vast empire to which he reportedly answers: “the strongest.” Alexander’s chief of staff, Perdiccas, assumes the role of interim ruler as he attempts to hold the Macedonian Empire together until Alexander’s young son is old enough to rule. This arrangement quickly falls apart when many of Alexander’s former generals, now satraps (the Diadochi) rebel, including Craterus, Antipater, Ptolemy, and Antigonus. Perdiccas orders Eumenes, chancellor and also one of Alexander’s former generals, to guard Anatolia while he attacks Ptolemy in Egypt. Eumenes defeats and kills Craterus at the Battle of Hellespont in 321 BC, but Perdiccas is assassinated by Peithon, Seleucus, and Antipater. The Diadochi declare Eumenes an outlaw and send Antigonus to destroy him and the regime’s remaining power base. Eumenes retreats to Mesopotamia, hoping to draw on the resources and support of satraps in the east still loyal to the regime.. . December 5, 1757. Strategic Context. The Seven Years’ War begins in Europe with a Prussian seizure of Saxony in 1756. Backed only by Britain, Frederick the Great’s Prussia finds itself surrounded and operating on interior lines against virtually all other European powers for survival, a coalition of France, Austria, Russia, Spain, Sweden, and Bavaria. . . September 17, 1631. Strategic Context. In 1618, war breaks out when Ferdinand II, King of Bohemia, attempts to enforce strict Catholicism on Bohemia, a state of the Holy Roman Empire. What begins as a localized conflict between Protestants and Catholics within Bohemia, steadily widens into full-scale warfare across Europe as Ferdinand ascends to Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire. By 1629, the Protestant forces of France, Holland, the Palatinate, and Hesse-Kessel confront the Catholic-Imperialist forces of the Holy Roman Empire, Spain, Bavaria and Savoy. In 1630, Gustavus Adolphus, King of Sweden, enters the war on the side of the Protestants and lands in northern Germany. The Imperialist commander in the region, Johann Tscerclaes, Count of Tilly, invades Saxony as a precautionary measure to ensure it does not ally with the Swedes. However, Johann Georg, Elector of Saxony, fears the Swedes more and quickly combines forces with them. The combined Swedish-Saxon army confronts the Imperialist army near Breitenfeld.. Strategic Context. The Seven Years’ War begins in Europe with a Prussian seizure of Saxony in 1756. Backed only by Britain, Frederick the Great’s Prussia finds itself surrounded and operating on interior lines against virtually all other European powers for survival, a coalition of France, Austria, Russia, Spain, Sweden, and Bavaria. In May 1757, Frederick invades the Austrian province of Bohemia and besieges Prague until an Austrian army forces him to withdraw after two desperate field battles at Prague and Kolin. The coalition plans subsequent invasions of Saxony, Brandenburg, East Prussia, and Silesia. Frederick, seeking an opportunity to defeat these armies in detail one at a time, marches west against the Franco-Austrian army invading Saxony. The combined Franco-Austrian army is suffering from desertion and a disunity between its two commanders.. Learning objective . – to be able to identify the significance of the Battle of Naseby in the English Civil War.. I can . describe. the key . changes and continuities . shown in the Battle of Naseby.