"The Inland Navy of the Roman Empire " Topic
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Tango01 | 21 Jun 2015 1:19 p.m. PST |
"In modern times, we think of great navies patrolling the oceans of the world. The British Empire, for example, owes the advent of its naval superiority to its victory over the Spanish Armada and the subsequent focus on providing protection for its trading partners and colonies. In Roman times, the naval landscape was principally the Mediterranean Sea, or as the Romans liked to call it, Mare Nostrum. As I have discussed in other posts, the Romans came late to the game of sea trade and naval power following the successes of the Phoenicians, Greeks, and Carthaginians. They had no navy until the first Punic War (264 B.C.) when it became an important instrument for the capture of Sicily. By the time the empire began, naval power was a critical element of Roman strategy.
A remarkable yet mostly obscure part of the Roman naval story concerns the fleets of the inland frontier. I know of no other case in history where a large scale power deployed a navy for the control of rivers. By accident or design, the northern boundary of the empire would be marked by the great rivers of Europe; the Rhine and the Danube, so a naval force was required to act in support of the army. The Rhine was the western boundary of the empire from the time of Julius Caesar with the Danube following during the time of Augustus, who sought to move the boundary north to avoid attacks emanating from the Alps. Augustus had Drusus and his brother Tiberius push east from the Rhine as far as the Elbe, but following reverses like the Massacre at Teutoburg, Rome retreated to its old boundary on the Rhine…" Full text here link
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Editor in Chief Bill | 21 Jun 2015 1:41 p.m. PST |
There was also a good article on this subject in Ancient Warfare magazine. |
sgt Dutch | 21 Jun 2015 3:04 p.m. PST |
Yes I have been studying this for a while. The University in Tier has created a Roman patrol boat.
More on my blog with more links to the Roman craft here. link |
Tango01 | 22 Jun 2015 10:19 a.m. PST |
Great pic!. Thanks for share!. Amicalement Armand |
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