Saturday, January 9, 2010

Historical Battle in Imperial Glory

Imperial Glory have 6 historical battle to be play : Battle of Pyramid,Salamanca,Waterloo,Austerlitz,Friedland and Trafalgar.Each of the battle was the famous battle during the Napoleonic War.Well,In history of the day, i would like to post a simple fact about the battle..let us start with the Pyramid first.
Battle of Pyramid,21st July 1708
1.Napoleon invented his one significant contributions to tactic, the massive divisional square.
2.Napoleon's 25000 troops faced 40000 Egyptian led by Murad Bey, 6000 from them was the Mamelukes cavalry
3.The Egyptians were concentrated near the village of Embabeh with the pyramid of Giza on their flank.
4.At the height of the battle, Napoleon formed his forces in 5 divisional square, each was six ranks infantry and protected the cavalry and arttilery in their centres, They effectively repulsed the wild massed charge of Mamelukes.
5.After the battle, 300 French died while a large number of Egyptians was killed, captured or dispersed.

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