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    Default Re: Celts in warfare - what did they use?

    Quote Originally Posted by Watchman

    Anyway, I don't think we're talking about the Middle Ages here.
    Well, Kagemusha was arguing that the Iron Age Celts were all about the charge because the Scots were later all about the charge.

    Now then, Scotland does not exist as Scotland until the mid 9th century and the Scots do not become famous for their charge until the early modern period.

    I was just disagreeing with that statement.

    I also disagree with your highlands = charge and lowlands = pikes being geographically based. The lowlands have plenty of hilly terrain (such as the southern uplands) that saw much of the fighting in the wars of independence. Like I wrote above, the "highland charge" was very much an early modern thing, especially associated with the Jacobites. The Jacobites main support was not just from the highlands but from the still heavily Episcopalian and Catholic northern lowlands (who made up a significant proportion of Jacobite troops). These lowlanders dressed and fought in the same manner as the highlanders .
    Last edited by Taffy_is_a_Taff; 03-06-2006 at 14:00.

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