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From: munnari!softway.oz.au!gary@uunet.UU.NET (Gary Corby)
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Subject: Re: Low Tech Warfare (1 of 5)
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Date: 5 Dec 89 03:55:07 GMT
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From: munnari!softway.oz.au!gary@uunet.UU.NET (Gary Corby)

wrf@mab.ecse.rpi.edu (Wm Randolph Franklin) writes:

>It would be interesting to compile  a  list of battles that  were won by
>one side doing  something the  other thought  was physically impossible.
>Besides Dien Bien Phu and the Ho CHi Minh trail, other examples include
>[etc]

The Persians at Thermopylae.  They made a night climb up one side
of the pass, thus enabling them to come down on the Greeks posted
to cover the flank.