Название: Osprey Men-at-Arms 528 - The Army of Pyrrhus of Epirus: 3rd Century BC
Автор: Nicholas Sekunda
Издательство: Osprey Publishing
ISBN: 1472833481
Год: 2019
Формат: EPUB
Страниц: 48
Размер: 15,1 МБ
Язык: Английский
Pyrrhus was one of the most tireless and famous warriors of the Hellenistic Age that followed the dispersal of Alexander the Great's brief empire. After inheriting the throne as a boy, and a period of exile, he began a career of alliances and expansion, in particular against the region's rising power: Rome.
Gathering both Greek and Italian allies into a very large army (which included war-elephants), he crossed to Italy in 280 BC, but lost most of his force in a series of costly victories at Heraclea and Asculum, as well as a storm at sea.