The Rise of Rome: The Making of the World's Greatest Empire by Anthony Everitt

Author:Anthony Everitt [Everitt, Anthony]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Non-Fiction, History
ISBN: 9780679645160
Google: 64a49zeD6g4C
Amazon: B0067AMRD0
Goodreads: 13530792
Publisher: Random House
Published: 2012-08-07T04:00:00+00:00

As soon as the ships were completed, they were launched and the crews went aboard for some “real-life” practice. Under the command of a consul-admiral, they then set sail for the high seas.

To have established a maritime arm in so short a space of time was an extraordinary achievement. In its wars with the Samnites and the campaigns against Pyrrhus, Rome had shown a capacity to hang on, to bear disaster, and to return grimly to the fray. Here was evidence now of a less reactive, more purely aggressive energy. The creation of a new fleet almost out of thin air revealed Rome’s unremitting enthusiasm for new challenges. It had learned how to upgrade itself into a more expansive, more irresistible state of being.

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