Military strategy and tactics
What Military strategy and tactics means in History B Schools History Project GCSE, as defined for OCR.
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The use of feigned retreats and a combination of archers, infantry, and cavalry by the Normans, contrasted with the English shield wall.
Advanced tactics such as the feigned retreat, with armies combining heavily armoured cavalry, skilled archers and infantry.
Destroying the aqueduct to cut off fresh water, blockading the causeways and deploying brigantines to control Lake Texcoco.
Topics that use Military strategy and tactics
- British Depth Study: The Norman Conquest, 1065–1087 (OCR GCSE)
- World Depth Study: Aztecs and the Spanish Conquest, 1519–1535 (OCR GCSE)
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