User talk:Jolandry

Welcome![edit]

Hello Jolandry, welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Our intro page contains a lot of helpful material for new users - please check it out! If you need help, visit Wikipedia:Questions, ask me on my talk page, or place {{helpme}} on this page and someone will show up shortly to answer your questions. Λua∫Wi se ^{(Operibus anteire)} 08:29, 8 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Your edits are always welcomed, but could you explain why removed this:

Most of the techniques used in trench warfare were ancient. It was the implementation of these techniques between two armies in the field that was new. Julius Caesar in his Gallic Wars describes how at the Battle of Alesia the Roman legions created two huge fortified walls around the city. The inner circumvallation, 10 miles,^{[citation needed]} held in Vercingetorix's forces, while the contravallation kept relief from reaching them. The Romans held the ground in between. The besieged Gauls, facing starvation, eventually surrendered, while their relief force stood by, helpless. Thucydides describes a similar, but unsuccessful, siege of Syracuse by the Athenians during the Peloponnesian War.

Cheers!Λua∫Wi se ^{(Operibus anteire)} 08:30, 8 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]