I put this in the Military service thread but it really was a huge thread drift so I decided to move it to a new thread.
If anyone ever wants to do this in another thread it is really pretty easy to move even multiple posts to a new thread. Another nice thing about having a live in moderator. Quote:
http://www.math.yorku.ca/SCS/Gallery...minard-odt.jpg Larger http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi.../29/Minard.png It shows the number of soldiers alive at any particular moment in the march (the width of the bar) The direction of travel (the color of the bar Grey/Black) The armies geographic location. (X/Y coordinates) Progression in Time (changes in X) The temperature during the return trip (the graph on the bottom) It really puts the sheer number of causalities in perspective. |
Nice map. As I see I had some numbers wrong or wrongly placed (but i had them from memory and that is seldom reliable). That makes it even more impressive that I previously thought.
Thanks, nice thread :) . |
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