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Andrew's avatar

Reading your blog is a breath of fresh internet air. It's really great to see seminars summarized so succinctly, and somehow blissfully blended in to your travels and life. Keep it up!

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Truman Angell's avatar

Apples and accordions, Madam.

Iulius Caesar spent many years as a soldier. He was certainly a brilliant tactician with a strategic mind. His conquest of Gaul, his later campaign in Greece again Pompey Magnus and his cynical politics were tests of his leadership. The fine Joan never commanded so many troops, or a navy.

That said, she did INSPIRE troops to do for France what only Caesar's troops did for pay, pillage or land. And, you know yourself, an inspired soldier is worth 10 mercenaries.

Perhaps a better comparison is between Henry V or the Black Prince?

Vale!

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