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, 1852 - 364 Seiten |
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... as yet , much less the treasures brought to light from its unfathomed and almost unfathomable mines of wealth . Until the beginning of the present century , I may almost say that to a few secluded and solitary scholars.
... as yet , much less the treasures brought to light from its unfathomed and almost unfathomable mines of wealth . Until the beginning of the present century , I may almost say that to a few secluded and solitary scholars.
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... present condition , it would scarcely be incorrect to say over the actual fate , of modern Europe , and through her of the world at large , it will be neither an unpleasant nor an unprofitable mode of passing an hour , even to those who ...
... present condition , it would scarcely be incorrect to say over the actual fate , of modern Europe , and through her of the world at large , it will be neither an unpleasant nor an unprofitable mode of passing an hour , even to those who ...
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... present aspect of Europe or America . From the circumstances of other similarly situated regions we may however suppose , that had Greece succumbed before the countless myriads of Darius , Xerxes , and their successors , the ...
... present aspect of Europe or America . From the circumstances of other similarly situated regions we may however suppose , that had Greece succumbed before the countless myriads of Darius , Xerxes , and their successors , the ...
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... and grandest character- istics ; give occasions for its most heroic efforts both of doing and suffering ; and present its most touching sacrifices , its most OF TACTICS . 17 admirable exemplars - the history and 16 IDENTITY.
... and grandest character- istics ; give occasions for its most heroic efforts both of doing and suffering ; and present its most touching sacrifices , its most OF TACTICS . 17 admirable exemplars - the history and 16 IDENTITY.
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... present under arms , was estimated , the men being reckoned by shields , as in modern warfare by bayonets and sabres . In addition to this , which was , however , his principal defence , the Greek soldier wore a breast - plate , or ...
... present under arms , was estimated , the men being reckoned by shields , as in modern warfare by bayonets and sabres . In addition to this , which was , however , his principal defence , the Greek soldier wore a breast - plate , or ...
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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 captains Carthaginian cavalry centre character charge Cheirisophos column command Darios defeat defend defiles deliver battle encamped enemy Epaminondas fell 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 Leuktra light troops Makedonian manoeuvres Mantineia Marathon marched Mardonios Megara mercenaries miles military Miltiades nations never 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 victory whole Xenophon Xerxes
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Seite 97 - Persians' grave, I could not deem myself a slave. A king sate on the rocky brow Which looks o'er sea-born Salamis; And ships by thousands lay below, And men in nations; — all were his! He counted them at break of day, And when the sun set, where were they?
Seite 52 - Polycrates, A tyrant; but our masters then Were still at least our countrymen. The tyrant of the Chersonese Was freedom's best and bravest friend. That tyrant was Miltiades. Oh, that the present hour would lend Another despot of the kind ! Such chains as his were sure to bind.
Seite 339 - has there been witnessed the struggle of the highest individual genius against the resources and institutions of a great nation, and in both cases the nation has been victorious. For seventeen years Hannibal strove against Rome ; for sixteen years Napoleon Bonaparte strove against England : the efforts of the first ended in Zama ; those of the second in Waterloo.
Seite 219 - I never heard the old song of Percy and Douglas that I found not my heart moved more than with a trumpet...
Seite 249 - With their back to the field and their feet to the foe, And leaving in battle no blot on their name, Looked proudly to heaven from the death-bed of fame.
Seite 141 - Asopos' plain O'erleaped, and on Kithairon's rock awoke Another pile of telegraphic fire. Nor did the watchmen there, with niggard hand, Deny the torch, that blazed most bright of all. Athwart the lake Gorgopis shot the gleam, Stirring the guards on Aigiplanctos' hill, Lest it should fail to shine, the appointed blaze. Kindled with generous zeal, they sent aloft The mighty beard of flame, that streamed so high To flash beyond the towering heights which guard The gulf Saronic. Thence it shot, —...