this post was submitted on 09 Jul 2024
49 points (98.0% liked)

A sub for Historymemes

983 readers
579 users here now

A place for history memes.

founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
 
top 6 comments
sorted by: hot top controversial new old
[–] Skullgrid@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)
  1. Giving up power as soon as you are not the correct person for the job, preparing your replacement so the unit can grow.
[–] PugJesus@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago

Feel like that's more of a Cincinnatus move

[–] HobbitFoot@thelemmy.club 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] PugJesus@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Let's goooooooooo

Caesar proceeded, after encouraging the tenth legion, to the right wing; where he perceived that his men were hard pressed, and that in consequence of the standards of the twelfth legion being collected together in one place, the crowded soldiers were a hinderance to themselves in the fight; that all the centurions of the fourth cohort were slain, and the standard-bearer killed, the standard itself lost, almost all the centurions of the other cohorts either wounded or slain, and among them the chief centurion of the legion P. Sextius Baculus, a very valiant man, who was so exhausted by many and severe wounds, that he was already unable to support himself... [Caesar] also perceived that the affair was at a crisis, and that there was not any reserve which could be brought up, having therefore snatched a shield from one of the soldiers in the rear (for he himself had come without a shield), he advanced to the front of the line, and addressing the centurions by name, and encouraging the rest of the soldiers, he ordered them to carry forward the standards, and extend the companies, that they might the more easily use their swords. On his arrival, as hope was brought to the soldiers and their courage restored, while every one for his own part, in the sight of his general, desired to exert his utmost energy, the impetuosity of the enemy was a little checked.

Soldiers will do a hell of a lot for a leader willing to put himself in the same danger they're in.

[–] beebarfbadger@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Caesar inspiring blind Which loyalty in his legions are you today?

[–] PugJesus@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

His legions are so blinded by loyalty they don't dead open inside 😔