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Often appears with: treaties, truces, and peacemaking · roman panic and pursuit · military discipline and training · cavalry charge · capture of enemy camp · battle and tactics
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The dictator orders standards to move and cavalry to charge once distance is right; Roman legions advance, Etruscans panic, their camp is stormed, and a two-year truce follows.
force too powerful for his small band to cope with. He therefore sent in haste to Valerius for support, and in the mean time, by himself, sustained the enemy's onset. 5. On receiving his message, the dictator ordered the standards to move, and the troops to follow in arms. But every thing was executed more quickly, almost, than ordered. The standards and arms were instantly snatched up, and they were with difficulty…