The foot soldier has been the backbone of every nation’s army since antiquity. This sweeping 1908 history covers the role of infantry from the war between the Persians and the Greeks through the Roman Empire, the Middle Ages, the Renaissance, and the American and French Revolutions, up to the Russo-Japanese War.

The foot soldier has been the backbone of every nation’s army since antiquity. This sweeping 1908 history covers the role of infantry from the war between the Persians and the Greeks through the Roman Empire, the Middle Ages, the Renaissance, and the American and French Revolutions, up to the Russo-Japanese War.

The foot soldier has been the backbone of every nation’s army since antiquity. This sweeping 1908 history covers the role of infantry from the war between the Persians and the Greeks through the Roman Empire, the Middle Ages, the Renaissance, and the American and French Revolutions, up to the Russo-Japanese War.