Posted on 02/28/2016 5:31:58 AM PST by C19fan
I went to the most famous battlefield in Western History, and had a surprise. Not a good one.
It is a stomp, well off the path, to get to Cannae.
The main train lines in Italy run up and down the coasts. Going inland, particularly in southeast Italy, is somewhat more episodic. My train had two cars. At the fourth stop, “Battle”, I got off.
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Yes, we kept having to wait for VII Corps to catch up to us. Also, the Corps commander had a case of the slows. Read McGregor’s book Warriors Rage about it. My CO was the hero of the Battle and is now a LT General.
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