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Often appears with: treaties, truces, and peacemaking · siege and fortification · military engineering trenches · fortified military camps · battle and tactics · ambush tactics
Usually: argument (1) · detachment (1)
Utopians practice ambush and night retreat, fortify camps with trenches and walls built by the whole army, fight with pole-axes and arrows, and maintain truce by not burning or wasting enemy land.
counting the day their own, have turned the whole action, and, wresting out of their hands a victory that seemed certain and undoubted, while the vanquished have suddenly become victorious. “It is hard to tell whether they are more dexterous in laying or avoiding ambushes. They sometimes seem to fly when it is far from their thoughts; and when they intend to give ground, they do it so that it is very hard to find ou…