Early Military Geology (Battles)

Description

h
Jordan Green
Mind Map by Jordan Green, updated more than 1 year ago
Jordan Green
Created by Jordan Green about 5 years ago
9
0

Resource summary

Early Military Geology (Battles)
  1. Battlefield tactics
    1. Fundamentals
      1. Secure high ground
        1. Avoid mobility restricting terrain
          1. Maintain Comms.
            1. Control Space for operation
            2. Topography & drainage controlled by underlying geology
              1. Geological structure, bedrock & 'recent' deposits can play critical role
                1. Medieval commanders used terrain to weigh outcome
                2. Tough terrain analysis
                  1. Bedrock Lithology/structure that controls erosion patterns, drift deposits and substrate permeability
                    1. Affects
                      1. Geomorphology
                        1. Drainage patterns
                          1. natural obstacles (eg rivers)
                        2. Used to plan strats & tactics
                        3. battles
                          1. Bannockburn
                            1. Mix of seds, intrusions and volcanics
                              1. Stirling castle on glacially sculptured sill
                                1. scots sieged, brits FF
                                2. lots of raised beaches
                                  1. 20k english stopped by 7.5k scots
                                    1. scots protected by pits, woods& raised beach
                                      1. scots sat on a sill
                                        1. brits tried to flank, and lost
                                      2. Towton
                                        1. Yorkists on high ground (Mg limestone)
                                          1. Faults provided cover for advancing Yorkists
                                            1. Lancastrians advances
                                              1. Yorks hidden approach drives them back
                                                1. Lancastrians stuck with back to river
                                                  1. majority slaughtered in river and bloody meadow
                                        2. Flodden
                                          1. Border war
                                            1. king james, france occupied volcanic ridge
                                              1. Faulted Valley separated scots and english
                                            2. English small guns effective
                                              1. scots advanced into valley
                                                1. bogged down
                                                  1. bog caused by natural spring
                                              2. english made hidden approach and slaughtered scots
                                              3. Lansdown
                                                1. Oolitic limestone hills and softer limestone erosion, forming steep valleys
                                                  1. Narrow hilltop stopped parlimentarian reinforcements
                                                2. Naseby
                                                  1. Jurassic sandstone outcrops in softer lias sediments
                                                    1. parl. had high ground, cavalry charged downhill & won
                                                  2. Dunbar
                                                    1. Scots 20k troops on conglomerate hills, blocking english
                                                      1. Stupidly abandoned position, to steep bank
                                                        1. Slaughtered by English cavalry
                                                  Show full summary Hide full summary

                                                  Similar

                                                  Energy P1
                                                  Jawad Karim
                                                  French Future Tense Verbs
                                                  PEACEout
                                                  Map Quiz 6.0
                                                  Ankita A :)
                                                  BIOTEHNOLOGIJA
                                                  spela.strizic.ga
                                                  Mon milieu
                                                  Simone Bergamaschi
                                                  Sub-Prime Crisis
                                                  Jethro Ong
                                                  Ma famille
                                                  Simone Bergamaschi
                                                  Gastroenteritis
                                                  sophy108
                                                  starting
                                                  Mai Mahmoud
                                                  Poteri politici USA
                                                  Simone Bergamaschi
                                                  DAY OF THE DEAD
                                                  Nayeli Medina