22 British War Dogs 



was besieging Mantenea, he discovered treachery among 

 some of his own forces, and that provisions were being 

 carried into the town by night. He stopped this, by sur- 

 rounding the town with a cordon of dogs, which no one 

 was able to penetrate, owing to the vigilance of the animals. 



When Philip of Macedon made war against the 

 Thracians, the latter took to the forests, and the only satis- 

 factory means he had of tracing them was by using dogs. 



It is related that the garrison at Corinth were asleep 

 after a lengthy carouse, and were only saved from a surprise 

 attack from the enemy, by the faithful watch-dogs on 

 duty on the ramparts, who neither slumbered nor slept, 

 but remained, unlike the men, faithful to their trust. They 

 were ever afterwards held in the greatest reverence by the 

 garrison. 



In their accounts of their incursions all over the world, we 

 find a constant repetition of the statement, that the Romans 

 took dogs with them, and, in fact, that they recognized in 

 the latter, a necessary and reliable auxiliary in warfare ; 

 thus we find them in constant use as guards, and sentries 

 for their camps, and for the ramparts of their towns. They 

 were taken in large groups, when the Roman legions pene- 

 trated into the Sahara against the Samarantes. 



Marius, a Roman Consul, gives an interesting account 

 of how, at the Battle of Versella, 101 B.C., against the 

 Teutons, the Romans, having overcome the defending 

 forces, found they then had to take into account very 

 seriously, the hordes of dogs, which were organized and 

 furiously urged against them by the " blonde-haired women 

 of Wagenburg." 



We also read, that in the war against the natives of Sar- 

 dinia, in 231 B.C., the latter were scented out of the woods 

 and caves, by means of dogs. 



