Matches in DBpedia 2015-10 for { <http://dbpedia.org/resource/Investment_(military)> ?p ?o }
- Investment_(military) abstract "Investment is the military process of surrounding an enemy fort (or town) with armed forces to prevent entry or escape. It serves both to cut communications with the outside world, and to prevent supplies and reinforcements from being introduced.A circumvallation is a line of fortifications, built by the attackers around the besieged fortification facing towards an enemy fort (to protect the besiegers from sorties by its defenders and to enhance the blockade). The resulting fortifications are known as 'lines of circumvallation'. Lines of circumvallation generally consist of earthen ramparts and entrenchments that encircle the besieged city. The line of circumvallation can be used as a base for launching assaults against the besieged city or for constructing further earthworks nearer to the city.A contravallation may be constructed in cases where the besieging army is threatened by a field army allied to an enemy fort. This is a second line of fortifications outside the circumvallation, facing away from an enemy fort. The contravallation protects the besiegers from attacks by allies of the city's defenders and enhances the blockade of an enemy fort by making it more difficult to smuggle in supplies.The Siege of Alesia which took place in September 52 BC is one of the most famous investments in history. Julius Caesar in his Commentaries on the Gallic War describes his textbook use of the circumvallation and contravallation to defeat the Gauls under their chieftain Vercingetorix. Thucydides notes the role circumvallation played in the Spartan siege of Plataea during the initial stages of the Peloponnesian War, 429 BC.Another example before the modern period is the siege of Constantinople in 717-718 AD. At this time, the Isaurian dynasty of emperors ruled in Constantinople. Recently, the Isaurian dynasty's founder, Leo the Isaurian, originally named Konon, was commander of the theme (i.e. province) of Anatolia, appointed by the Emperor Anastasius II Artemius. During Konon's term as general of the Anatolics, the Emperor Anastasius II had been deposed by the troops of the elite Opsician regiment, and replaced by an unwilling tax collector named Theodosius. He (Theodosius) finally accepted the offer of the purple, and was made Emperor Theodosius III. Theodosius, however, alienated the support of the Opsicians, and Konon, changing his name to Leo, took advantage of this and decided to use them to take the purple for himself. He allied with Artabasdus, the commander of the theme of Armenia, and was able to depose Theodosius III, becoming Leo III upon his ascension to the Byzantine throne. Meanwhile, the leaders of the Islamic Empire took advantage of the violent anarchy within the Byzantine state to prepare a huge host, comprising more than 100,000 troops and 1,800 ships, to take them to the capital Constantinople. Upon arriving outside the Theodosian walls, the Arab host had some knowledge that the Emperor Leo had allied with the Bulgars under their khan Tervel, and so in preparation for the Bulgar horde, built such military investments, but they failed to work, and so the Arab army was defeated by a number of factors; the failure of their circumvallations and contravallations, the lack of supplies near the end of the siege, the (mostly) sudden and shocking arrival of Tervel's Bulgarian horde, and most importantly, the use of a dangerously flammable substance invented by the Byzantines, an unknown mix of various ingredients that may have included naphtha, saltpetre, petroleum, pine resin, calcium phosphide, quicklime, sulphur and niter, that was called ″sea fire″ (Ancient Greek: πῦρ θαλάσσιον pyr thalássion) or ″Roman fire″ (πῦρ ῥωμαϊκόν pyr rhomaïkón), but is called Greek fire in modern historiography due to the Crusaders′ thinking that the Byzantine state was an Empire of the Greeks.The basic objectives and tactics of a military investment have remained the same in the modern era. During the Second World War there were many sieges and many investments. One of the most famous sieges of WWII which demonstrated the tactical use of investment was the siege of Stalingrad. During the first half of the siege the Germans were unable to fully encircle the city, so the Soviets were able to get men and supplies into the city across the Volga River. In the second half of the battle, the complete investment of Stalingrad by the Soviets (including air space which prevented the construction by the Germans of an adequately large airbridge) eventually forced the starving Germans inside the city to surrender.".
- Investment_(military) thumbnail AlesiaFortifications.JPG?width=300.
- Investment_(military) wikiPageID "11235735".
- Investment_(military) wikiPageLength "7291".
- Investment_(military) wikiPageOutDegree "61".
- Investment_(military) wikiPageRevisionID "675749176".
- Investment_(military) wikiPageWikiLink Airbridge_(logistics).
- Investment_(military) wikiPageWikiLink Anastasios_II.
- Investment_(military) wikiPageWikiLink Anatolic_Theme.
- Investment_(military) wikiPageWikiLink Ancient_Greek.
- Investment_(military) wikiPageWikiLink Armed_forces.
- Investment_(military) wikiPageWikiLink Armeniac_Theme.
- Investment_(military) wikiPageWikiLink Artabasdos.
- Investment_(military) wikiPageWikiLink Battle_of_Alesia.
- Investment_(military) wikiPageWikiLink Battle_of_Stalingrad.
- Investment_(military) wikiPageWikiLink Blockade.
- Investment_(military) wikiPageWikiLink Byzantine_Empire.
- Investment_(military) wikiPageWikiLink Byzantine_Empire_under_the_Isaurian_dynasty.
- Investment_(military) wikiPageWikiLink Calcium_oxide.
- Investment_(military) wikiPageWikiLink Calcium_phosphide.
- Investment_(military) wikiPageWikiLink Caliphate.
- Investment_(military) wikiPageWikiLink Category:Ancient_Roman_siege_warfare.
- Investment_(military) wikiPageWikiLink Category:Military_strategy.
- Investment_(military) wikiPageWikiLink Category:Siege_tactics.
- Investment_(military) wikiPageWikiLink Commentaries_on_the_Gallic_War.
- Investment_(military) wikiPageWikiLink Commentarii_de_Bello_Gallico.
- Investment_(military) wikiPageWikiLink Constantinople.
- Investment_(military) wikiPageWikiLink Crusades.
- Investment_(military) wikiPageWikiLink Defensive_wall.
- Investment_(military) wikiPageWikiLink Encirclement.
- Investment_(military) wikiPageWikiLink First_Bulgarian_Empire.
- Investment_(military) wikiPageWikiLink Fort.
- Investment_(military) wikiPageWikiLink Fortification.
- Investment_(military) wikiPageWikiLink Gaul.
- Investment_(military) wikiPageWikiLink Greek_fire.
- Investment_(military) wikiPageWikiLink Julius_Caesar.
- Investment_(military) wikiPageWikiLink Khan_(title).
- Investment_(military) wikiPageWikiLink Leo_III_the_Isaurian.
- Investment_(military) wikiPageWikiLink List_of_Byzantine_emperors.
- Investment_(military) wikiPageWikiLink List_of_established_military_terms.
- Investment_(military) wikiPageWikiLink Naphtha.
- Investment_(military) wikiPageWikiLink Niter.
- Investment_(military) wikiPageWikiLink Opsikion.
- Investment_(military) wikiPageWikiLink Peloponnesian_War.
- Investment_(military) wikiPageWikiLink Petroleum.
- Investment_(military) wikiPageWikiLink Plataea.
- Investment_(military) wikiPageWikiLink Potassium_nitrate.
- Investment_(military) wikiPageWikiLink Resin.
- Investment_(military) wikiPageWikiLink Siege.
- Investment_(military) wikiPageWikiLink Siege_of_Alesia.
- Investment_(military) wikiPageWikiLink Siege_of_Constantinople_(717-718).
- Investment_(military) wikiPageWikiLink Siege_of_Constantinople_(717–718).
- Investment_(military) wikiPageWikiLink Sortie.
- Investment_(military) wikiPageWikiLink Strategos.
- Investment_(military) wikiPageWikiLink Sulfur.
- Investment_(military) wikiPageWikiLink Tervel_of_Bulgaria.
- Investment_(military) wikiPageWikiLink Theme_(Byzantine_district).
- Investment_(military) wikiPageWikiLink Theodosios_III.
- Investment_(military) wikiPageWikiLink Theodosius_III.
- Investment_(military) wikiPageWikiLink Thucydides.
- Investment_(military) wikiPageWikiLink Town.
- Investment_(military) wikiPageWikiLink Trench_warfare.
- Investment_(military) wikiPageWikiLink Umayyad_Caliphate.
- Investment_(military) wikiPageWikiLink Vercingetorix.
- Investment_(military) wikiPageWikiLink Volga.
- Investment_(military) wikiPageWikiLink Volga_River.
- Investment_(military) wikiPageWikiLink Walls_of_Constantinople.
- Investment_(military) wikiPageWikiLink World_War_II.
- Investment_(military) wikiPageWikiLink File:AlesiaFortifications.JPG.
- Investment_(military) wikiPageWikiLink File:Siege_of_Grol_(Groenlo)_1627_-_Grolla_Obsessa_et_Expugnata_(J.Blaeu).jpg.
- Investment_(military) wikiPageWikiLinkText "Besiege".
- Investment_(military) wikiPageWikiLinkText "Contravallation".
- Investment_(military) wikiPageWikiLinkText "Investment (military)".
- Investment_(military) wikiPageWikiLinkText "Investment".
- Investment_(military) wikiPageWikiLinkText "circumvallated".
- Investment_(military) wikiPageWikiLinkText "circumvallatio".
- Investment_(military) wikiPageWikiLinkText "circumvallation line".
- Investment_(military) wikiPageWikiLinkText "circumvallation".
- Investment_(military) wikiPageWikiLinkText "circumvallations".
- Investment_(military) wikiPageWikiLinkText "double siege wall".
- Investment_(military) wikiPageWikiLinkText "encircle".
- Investment_(military) wikiPageWikiLinkText "invest".
- Investment_(military) wikiPageWikiLinkText "invested force".
- Investment_(military) wikiPageWikiLinkText "invested".
- Investment_(military) wikiPageWikiLinkText "investing".
- Investment_(military) wikiPageWikiLinkText "investiture".
- Investment_(military) wikiPageWikiLinkText "investment (military)".
- Investment_(military) wikiPageWikiLinkText "investment".
- Investment_(military) wikiPageWikiLinkText "investments".
- Investment_(military) wikiPageWikiLinkText "lines of circumvallation".
- Investment_(military) wikiPageWikiLinkText "lines of investment".
- Investment_(military) wikiPageWikiLinkText "military investments".
- Investment_(military) wikiPageWikiLinkText "siege line".
- Investment_(military) wikiPageWikiLinkText "siege lines".
- Investment_(military) wikiPageWikiLinkText "surrounded".
- Investment_(military) hasPhotoCollection Investment_(military).
- Investment_(military) wikiPageUsesTemplate Template:Refimprove.
- Investment_(military) wikiPageUsesTemplate Template:Reflist.
- Investment_(military) subject Category:Ancient_Roman_siege_warfare.
- Investment_(military) subject Category:Military_strategy.