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Miscellaneous Military Items: Battlefield Density Through the Ages
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Period
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Antiquity
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Napoleonic Wars
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US Civil War
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World War Two
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October War
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Examples of Urban Battles
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| Plataea, New Tyre, New Carthage, Alesia |
Jungingen, Aspern-Essling |
Monterrey, |
Stalingrad, Aachen, Manila, Nuremberg, Berlin |
Hue, |
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| Men per square km: All Terrain |
100,000
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4,970
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3,883
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32
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25
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| Urban examples |
16,300
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46,400
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11,600
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1,300
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1,100
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| Square meters per man: All Terrain |
10
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201
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258
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31,000
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40,000
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| Urban examples |
61
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22
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86
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769
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909
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Note: Values for battlefield densities across all type of terrain
are shown in Roman type; comparative urban examples and respective battlefield
densities are in italics. Examples are from roughly the same period
when sufficient examples were otherwise unavailable, e.g., in the case
of the American Civil War.
Source: Glenn, Russell W. "Heavy Matter: Urban Operations'
Density of Challenges" Santa Monica : Rand Corp.:2000.
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