"movement of french troops by roman roads?" Topic

Hi Gents,
Were there any movement of french troops by these roads? greetings serge joe

I know there ere not that many left but still plenty in italy? greetings serge joe

There are quite many bits left . There were most of them left by that time , I think. For ex the road of the Corsican up north in 1815 is mainly via what was a Roman road. I lived nearby 11 years and went playing on it as a kid.

We still have a number of originally Roman roads in use in the UK today.

A differant story about highway?
there was a plan to make a some kind of high way between bois le duc den Bosch to Turnhout Belgium but halfway 25 kilometer they ran out of money and had to stop near boxtel on the modern highway a1 is there stil a litle tol house on the left side coming from the south greetings serge joe

and a highway has what to do with a roman road??

Not sure what you mean by "highway". If you mean a more modern road then many "highways" are built on the same line and route as Roman roads.

As above, many modern roads follow the lines of Roman ones.

A Highway no ,
just a dirt way ,
No roman road beneath it but the invasion by the revolutionary forces came this way by postal roads!
got a batle at boxel

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greetings serge joe

eh, what??

Dear Brunet,
some misunderstanding?
The French invaded holland by the old postal roads no roman roads who were paved like highways so no muddy roads but paved ones greetings serge joe

The French invaded holland by the old postal roads no roman roads

How do you know that these "postal roads" were not following the line of pre-existing Roman roads?

when is a road an old postal road;
how do you know they didn't use other roads
how do you know these "old postal"were all paved (if I understand your posting correct)

The fastest way to bring news is using the postal roads greetings serge joe

Only one excepition the roads around maesstrcht most were in this time roman greettings serge joe

You would not like your army get stuck in the mud?
when is a road an old postal road;
how do you know they didn't use other roads
how do you know these "old postal"were all paved (if I understand your posting correct) greeting serge joe

The fastest way to bring news is using the postal roads

Which implies they were relatively straight. Just like Roman roads … maybe they were Roman roads before they were postal roads?

It is far more likely that paved roads were constructed on the line of (sometimes literally on top of) Roman roads. The grading had already been done.

Yep
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Maybe
I think the roman roads were build straighter than the postal there were not that many big cities in the Netherlands in the roman era best to you serge joe

In the roman age A to B should be the straightest point yeah having no compas just stars they knew how to avoid rivers and swamps
the best serge joe

having no compass just stars

Not true. The lodestone was known about (and used) from the 5th century BC.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compass

Sorry about the last remark there seems to be roman roads drawings? map with the main cities greetings serge joe

These are what i found! link

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serge joe

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if you look at this link

you see that there were only a few roman roads, almost all following the river Rhine (waal) or meuse. So comparing roman roads and postal roads is nonsense.

of course one axis was along the river meuse but others were in Zeeland or Noord Brabant

The romans
did not care that much about the netherlands too many forests and rivers greetings serge joe

But i have to stick to my topic so i stop i do an other one serge joe