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Often appears with: strategy and the aims of war · siege casualties · siege and fortification · punishment of prisoners · propaganda and rumor · miracles and divine intervention · military morale and fear · military discipline and training · interpretation errors · history and the writing of history · historiographical correction · firmus and cyria
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“This, however, is incorrect; for his return to Cholulla was entirely owing to the fear and anxiety of Narvaez's men, whom the Indians had crammed with all manner of fearful tales.” Bernal Díaz del Castillo, The Memoirs of the Conquistador Bernal Diaz del Cast · observation
Opis kills Aruns with an arrow as the Volscians collapse and Turnus’s side retreats into the city, where panic leads to crushing at the gate and a renewed slaughter.
wretch, and be his name abhorr’d; But after ages shall thy praise record. Th’ inglorious coward soon shall press the plain: Thus vows thy queen, and thus the Fates ordain.” High o’er the field there stood a hilly mound, Sacred the place, and spread with oaks around, Where, in a marble tomb, Dercennus lay, A king that once in Latium bore the sway. The beauteous Opis thither bent her flight, …
Theodosius retreats from pursuing barbarians after a battle near Addense, then regroups at Mazucanum and Tipata, uses envoys and delay to weaken Firmus’s alliances, and advances to capture prisoners and punish rebels.
who, from a consciousness of the ravages and murders of which they had been guilty, had joined the party of Firmus, hoping that he would soon obtain the chief authority. 28. Having advanced some distance, he found, near the town of Addense, that a number of tribes, who, though differing from each other in manners and language, were all animated with one feeling, in fomenting the outbreaks of terrible wars, being urg…
Diaz explains he was not present, corrects Gomara’s claims about Oli’s retreat, attributes it instead to Narváez’s men’s fear and Indian exaggerations, and closes the episode while promising further news from Vera Cruz.
whole surrounding country came to sue for peace, and declared themselves vassals of our emperor. After he had thus restored tranquillity to the whole country he returned to Villa Segura. I myself was not present at this battle, and I therefore merely relate what I learnt from others respecting it. Cortes and the whole of us marched out to meet the returning conquerors, and the rejoicings, as may be imagined, were ve…