Storming Through the Peninsula

Table 1: Small Forts are Easy Prey
and Big Forts Can Be Taken

by Paddy Griffith


Total number of attacks on forts in the sample: 23

SMALL Forts: 9 out of 23 cases (39%)
A total of 8 of these forts were captured (89%)

BIG Forts: 14 out of 23 cases (61%)
(i) Attacked by an ADEQUATE army: 5 out of 14 cases (36%)
A total of 4 of the forts were captured (80%)

(ii) Attacked by a SMALL army: 9 (64%)
A total of 2 of the forts were captured (22%)

Storming Through the Peninsula


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