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Often appears with: siege and fortification · supply, logistics, and encampment · naval warfare and sea power · treaties, truces, and peacemaking · town burning · ship enclosure · rhine crossings · navy · mycale · military discipline and training · mentz to rhine posts · julian’s infrastructure rebuilding
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“When we join battle, each one of you must remember first the freedom of all, and then the watchword 'Hebe'; and this let him also who has not heard know from him who has heard.” Herodotus, The History of Herodotus — Volume 2 · precept
“...they prepared themselves for their ends with all the decency they could... and professed that the conspiracy they had sworn to was a holy and pious action; that what they intended to do was not for gain... but principally for those common customs of their country, which all the Jews were obliged to observe, or to die for them.” Josephus, Flavius, Antiquities of the Jews · observation
He adds that commercial security requires a navy, with dockyards, arsenals, fortifications, and—until fleets can fully protect them—moderate garrisons to guard against raids and destruction.
any instant seized by one or the other of two neighboring and formidable powers? To act this part would be to desert all the usual maxims of prudence and policy. If we mean to be a commercial people, or even to be secure on our Atlantic side, we must endeavor, as soon as possible, to have a navy. To this purpose there must be dock-yards and arsenals; and for the defense of these, fortifications, and probably garriso…
After securing German and Frankish settlements, Julian crosses the Rhine in three expeditions, grants truces, deters deception, and resumes building efforts, including repairing seven posts between Mentz and the Rhine mouth.
78 (return) [ Ammian. xvi. 12. Libanius, Orat. x. p. 276.] After Julian had repulsed the Alemanni from the provinces of the Upper Rhine, he turned his arms against the Franks, who were seated nearer to the ocean, on the confines of Gaul and Germany; and who, from their numbers, and still more from their intrepid valor, had ever been esteemed the most formidable of the Barbarians. 79 Alt…
Josephus describes Gischala’s conflict: John son of Levi tries to restrain revolt, is defeated by neighbors who burn the town, then John rebuilds Gischala with walls and fights back.
we have elsewhere related. But still Philip kept possession of the citadel of Gamala, and of the country adjoining to it, which thereby continued in their allegiance to the Romans. 12. Now, as soon as I was come into Galilee, and had learned this state of things by the information of such as told me of them, I wrote to the sanhedrim at Jerusalem about them, and required their direction what I should do. Their direct…
Herod’s spy discovers the dagger plot; the conspirators are executed as pious for protecting Jewish customs, the informant is killed by the crowd, and Herod responds by fortifying the city and surrounding it with guards.
ready to undergo any suffering with them, if so be they should come to any harm, insomuch that he became a very great encourager of the rest of the undertakers. 4. When they had taken this resolution, and that by common consent, they went into the theater, hoping that, in the first place, Herod himself could not escape them, as they should fall upon him so unexpectedly; and supposing, however, that if they missed hi…
The Hellenes sail past Mycale’s temples, drawing up ships in a fortified enclosure built with stones, timber, and cleared fruit trees, preparing either for siege or victory.
under the protection of this army, and to draw up their ships on shore and put an enclosure round as a protection for the ships and a refuge for themselves.. 97. Having thus determined they began to put out to sea; and they came along by the temple of the "Revered goddesses" 10701 to the Gaison and to Scolopoeis in Mycale, where there is a temple of the Eleusinian Demeter, which Philistos the son of Pasicles erected…