How many contested beach landings were there before the modern (~1900s) era of warfare?
>>18587584Very very few, if any. Pre-modern armies didn't have the intelligence gathering capacity or strategic mobility to get to the beach before the enemy had landed, and didn't have the means to set up defenses on every beach. Shit, for most of the pre-modern period a generals hardest job was finding the enemies location.
I'm reading about Egypt, and actually, I can think of a few times that happened
>>18587584Not many. Probably the biggest was the final assault on Carthage, but the Venetian attack on Constantinople was up the Golden Horn as well
>>18587584Bollywood vibes
It took two tries for the Yankees to capture Fort Fisher, North Carolina in early 1865, doing something close to a modern beach assault with naval bombardment then landing troops. I’m scanning my memory and can’t think of much else in American history—plenty of contested river crossings but nothing like a WWII hit the beach moment.
>>18587690yeh, "sea peoples" what a bullshit narrative. they doing the same shit, yet agin
Richard the Lionheart managed one.
When Carthage finally fell to Scipio’s legions it was basically an ancient D-Day. Massive beach landings under heavy missile fire.
>>18587861That scene in Glory where they attack the Island fort and the cannons are shooting the shit out of them. That will forever be one of my favorite battle scenes in a movie. Kino
>>18588205Yes that is a beach assault but obviously we are talking about amphibious assaults on a beach not an attack on a beach from a peninsula
Beaches not so much. But it was verrry common for boats to directly attack the walls of cities on the ocean. I can think of many examples. Carthago Nova, siege of rhodes, and so on
>>18587584I know of the Invasion of Rügen in 1678 during the Scanian War. Here a joint force of Brandenburg and Denmark attacked the swedish held island of Rügen and at several times did the landing come under swedish artillery attack. But the resistance of the swedes was overall weak. Only on one occasion did the joint fleet not try to land their forces and that was not only due to swedish fire but also unfavorable wind conditions. Other landing attempts either faced little or no swedish resistance and the swedes were soon called back and evacuated the island.
>>18587584>Troy BADNo. No amount of kvetching will make me not like it. Enjoy your Nigger of Troy and a chink telling an actual Greek "we are Greeks from Ithaca".
>>18587584https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bombardment_of_GenoaThis one was pretty fun and exemplary>bomb the shit out of Genoa>still can't get a foothold on the coastline
>>18587584Lots. Numerous examples. People who say otherwise were pedantic losers who didn't know anything outside their field.
>>18588205Epic battle scene and fairly accurate apart from a mirror image of the direction they attacked from. Union forces were already on the island so not an amphibious assault under fire. Battery Wagner was finally abandoned a couple of months later after grinding it down with siege tactics. The usual Yankee plan for taking fortifications on water was to get ashore somewhere else with land forces, bombard, cut off supplies and reinforcements, then try a head on assault if the Rebs didn’t surrender. Fort Fisher was the closest thing to ACW D-Day.
