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Early Military Geology (Battles)
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Early Military Geology (Battles)
Battlefield tactics
Fundamentals
Secure high ground
Avoid mobility restricting terrain
Maintain Comms.
Control Space for operation
Topography & drainage controlled by underlying geology
Geological structure, bedrock & 'recent' deposits can play critical role
Medieval commanders used terrain to weigh outcome
Tough terrain analysis
Bedrock Lithology/structure that controls erosion patterns, drift deposits and substrate permeability
Affects
Geomorphology
Drainage patterns
natural obstacles (eg rivers)
Used to plan strats & tactics
battles
Bannockburn
Mix of seds, intrusions and volcanics
Stirling castle on glacially sculptured sill
scots sieged, brits FF
lots of raised beaches
20k english stopped by 7.5k scots
scots protected by pits, woods& raised beach
scots sat on a sill
brits tried to flank, and lost
Towton
Yorkists on high ground (Mg limestone)
Faults provided cover for advancing Yorkists
Lancastrians advances
Yorks hidden approach drives them back
Lancastrians stuck with back to river
majority slaughtered in river and bloody meadow
Flodden
Border war
king james, france occupied volcanic ridge
Faulted Valley separated scots and english
English small guns effective
scots advanced into valley
bogged down
bog caused by natural spring
english made hidden approach and slaughtered scots
Lansdown
Oolitic limestone hills and softer limestone erosion, forming steep valleys
Narrow hilltop stopped parlimentarian reinforcements
Naseby
Jurassic sandstone outcrops in softer lias sediments
parl. had high ground, cavalry charged downhill & won
Dunbar
Scots 20k troops on conglomerate hills, blocking english
Stupidly abandoned position, to steep bank
Slaughtered by English cavalry
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