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Often appears with: battle and tactics · supply, logistics, and encampment · strategy and the aims of war · mobilization and recruitment · conquest, plunder, and captives · tartars · shortage of corn · roman exhortation · roman defensive arrangements · prester john insult · plain of tanduc · omens and omens
Usually: narrative (5) · detachment (2) · speech or oration (1) · betrayal (1) · crisis of belief (1) · sudden reversal of fortune (1) · the fall of the great (1) · exhortation (1) · indignation (1)
“Attack them, therefore, with so much the greater confidence, and call to mind your achievements of old.” Sallust (Gaius Sallustius Crispus), Conspiracy of Catiline and the Jurgurthine War · precept
“In battle, those who are most afraid are always in most danger; but courage is equivalent to a rampart.” Sallust (Gaius Sallustius Crispus), Conspiracy of Catiline and the Jurgurthine War · insight
After the negotiations fail, both sides prepare for a decisive battle, with Hannibal emphasizing years of victories in Italy and Scipio urging that Roman security and the war’s end are now within reach.
informed them that words had been bandied to no purpose, that the question must be decided by arms, and that they must accept that fortune which the gods assigned them. 32. When they had arrived at their camps, they both issued orders that their soldiers should get their arms in readiness, and prepare their minds for the final contest; in which, if fortune should favour them, they would continue victorious, not for …
Catiline addresses his soldiers, arguing courage must come from within, describing their dire shortages and double enemy armies, promising safety if they win, and warning that flight leads to slaughter, then orders battle readiness.
contend for what but little concerns them,[288] the power of a small party. Attack them, therefore, with so much the greater confidence, and call to mind your achievements of old. We might,[289] with the utmost ignominy, have passed the rest of our days in exile. Some of you, after losing your property, might have waited at Rome for assistance from others. But because such a life, to men of spirit, was disgusting an…
After hearing Prester John’s insulting message, Chinghis Kaan rages, musters a vast host, advances toward Prester John, and camps on the plain of Tanduc in Prester John’s territory.
HOW CHINGHIS MUSTERED HIS PEOPLE TO MARCH AGAINST PRESTER JOHN. When Chinghis Kaan heard the brutal message that Prester John had sent him, such rage seized him that his heart came nigh to bursting within him, for he was a man of a very lofty spirit. At last he spoke, and that so loud that all who were present could hear him: “Never more might he be prince if he took not revenge for the …
During the rivalry of Harald and Magnus (1131–1134), they gather forces around Nidaros; in 1134 Magnus sails south with a larger army, raids opponents’ farms, and battle approaches at Fors/Fyrileif.
5. OF THE COUNSELS PROPOSED. When King Magnus, who was in Bergen, heard these tidings, he called together all the chiefs who were in the town, and asked them their counsel, and what they should now do. Then Sigurd Sigurdson said, "Here I can give a good advice. Let a ship be manned with good men, and put me, or any other lenderman, to command it; send it to thy relation, King Harald, and offer him peace according to…
After Romans notice Carthaginians marching and encamping on level terrain, Xanthippus is given full authority; he deploys elephants in front, holds the phalanx behind, divides mercenaries and cavalry by wings, and prepares for battle.
[Sidenote: The dispositions for the battle.] +33.+ The Romans at once noticed a change. They saw that the Carthaginians chose level country for their line of march, and flat places for their encampments. This novelty puzzled and rather alarmed them, yet their prevailing feeling was an eager desire to come to close quarters with the enemy. They therefore advanced to a position about ten stades from them and employed …
Absalom gathers a large army and appoints Amasa over it, while David divides about four thousand men into three parts under Joab, Abishai, and Ittai at Mahanaim, urging them to fight and spare Absalom.
Hair And Was Slain 1. And this was the state of David and his followers: but Absalom got together a vast army of the Hebrews to oppose his father, and passed therewith over the river Jordan, and sat down not far off Mahanaim, in the country of Gilead. He appointed Amasa to be captain of all his host, instead of Joab his kinsman: his father was Ithra and his mother Abigail: now she and Zeruiah, the mother of Joab, we…