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[–] ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world 3 points 4 weeks ago

It's pretty wild how many ancient battles involved one side retreating (either intentionally or otherwise), then the other side over-pursuing and ending up being slaughtered (Cannae, Hastings, all of Alexander the Great's battles etc. etc.). Everybody talks about what you could do going back in time with machine guns, but really you'd just have to tell dudes to sit on their asses and everything would work out.