The Captains of the Old World: As Compared with the Great Modern Strategists, Their Campaigns, Characters, and Conduct, from the Persian, to the Punic WarsC. Scribner, 1851 - 364 Seiten |
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... Hellenic phalanx , the sword and buckler of the Roman legion , the bows and bills of the English foot , the lance and battle - axe of the Norman chivalry resistless in the thundering charge of their barbed horse , or the death - dealing ...
... Hellenic phalanx , the sword and buckler of the Roman legion , the bows and bills of the English foot , the lance and battle - axe of the Norman chivalry resistless in the thundering charge of their barbed horse , or the death - dealing ...
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... Hellenic tribes or nations . These , although using different dialects , affecting different customs and forms of polity , often at war with each other , and claiming various descents from divers demigods , were still of common origin ...
... Hellenic tribes or nations . These , although using different dialects , affecting different customs and forms of polity , often at war with each other , and claiming various descents from divers demigods , were still of common origin ...
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... Hellenic prototypes ; since they rarely hesitated to lead or follow either against Italy in general or their own states in particular , and that even in behalf of the Turk or the Algerine . That examples of common efforts of combined ...
... Hellenic prototypes ; since they rarely hesitated to lead or follow either against Italy in general or their own states in particular , and that even in behalf of the Turk or the Algerine . That examples of common efforts of combined ...
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... Hellenic nations had long been in possession ; but it was not until above a century after the death of Alexander the Great , that any thing like the use of artillery is mentioned as opposed to movable bodies of men in the field ; * when ...
... Hellenic nations had long been in possession ; but it was not until above a century after the death of Alexander the Great , that any thing like the use of artillery is mentioned as opposed to movable bodies of men in the field ; * when ...
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... Hellenic leaders soon became famous . For finding that direct onslaughts were of little avail , on bodies nearly equal in physical force , and physical courage , and exactly equal in arms and organization , they early had recourse to ...
... Hellenic leaders soon became famous . For finding that direct onslaughts were of little avail , on bodies nearly equal in physical force , and physical courage , and exactly equal in arms and organization , they early had recourse to ...
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action Agesilaos Alexander allies Anab archery Aristides arms army array Arrian Asia Asopos Athenians Athens attack Attika barbarians Boiotians broken camp captain Carthaginian cavalry centre charge Cheirisophos column command Darios defeat defend defiles deliver battle Diod encamped enemy Epaminondas fell field fighting flank fleet foot force fought front Greece Greeks hand Hannibal hastati heavy Hellas Hellenic Herodotus hoplitai horse infantry Isthmus javelins king Kithairon Klearchos Kleombrotos Kyros Lakedaimonians leaders legion light troops Makedonian manoeuvres Mantineia Marathon marched Mardonios Megara mercenaries miles military Miltiades nations never nian numbers once Oriental Parmenion pass Pausanias Pelopidas Peloponnesian Persian phalanx pikes plain Plataia Plutarch Proxenos ranks rear retreat right wing river Roman ROMAN LEGION Rome Salamis scarcely sent shields skirmishers slaughter soldiers Spartans spears superior sword tactic Thebans Thebes Themistokles thence Thespiai Thessalian thousand three hundred Tissaphernes triarii triremes tyrant valor victory whole Xenophon Xerxes