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Tunneling in war was first done centuries before WW1. First known incident is from Roman times.
by dba7dba 10y ago
Tunneling in war was first done centuries before WW1. First known incident is from Roman times.
- azernik 10y agoAnd even doing it with explosives in trench warfare wasn't new. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_the_Crater https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_the_Crater
- dalke 10y agoWhich is likely why the article says "an attempt to master the art of mining and reinvent it for the age of the machine gun." Italics mine. The need to master mining in the first place is because "in the belief that siege warfare tactics like this were a thing of the past, the Royal Engineers had wound down their military mining section."
- B1FF_PSUVM 10y agoWasn't there a bit in the Iliad about sneaking into Troy through a tunnel or ditch? (Here we go, Odysseus and Diomedes steal the Palladium, use a 'secret passage'; apparently not in the official Homer version of the story https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palladium_(classical_antiquity) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palladium_(classical_antiquity... )