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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... walls of Vienna , so lately as the years , respectively , of 1571 , and 1683 . Of these three great struggles , it is impossible not to see , that the decisions , had they been reversed , must necessarily have THE THREE GREAT WARS . 15 ...
... walls of Vienna , so lately as the years , respectively , of 1571 , and 1683 . Of these three great struggles , it is impossible not to see , that the decisions , had they been reversed , must necessarily have THE THREE GREAT WARS . 15 ...
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... walls of Ilion the divine . " Thus speaking the earth - shaker lent the Achaians better cheer , And made the bands to rally , that were scattered far and near . About the two Ajaces right steady with the spear ; HOMERIC ARMIES . 21 That ...
... walls of Ilion the divine . " Thus speaking the earth - shaker lent the Achaians better cheer , And made the bands to rally , that were scattered far and near . About the two Ajaces right steady with the spear ; HOMERIC ARMIES . 21 That ...
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... walls of beleaguered cities , or from the walls into the lines of the besiegers , the 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 ...
... walls of beleaguered cities , or from the walls into the lines of the besiegers , the 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 ...
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... walls of Leipsic and on the heights of Mont- martre , than to do the like of Miltiades , because he preserved the liberty of Greece upon the plain of Marathon . Not to desire to be a slave himself , and to be a friend of freedom , are ...
... walls of Leipsic and on the heights of Mont- martre , than to do the like of Miltiades , because he preserved the liberty of Greece upon the plain of Marathon . Not to desire to be a slave himself , and to be a friend of freedom , are ...
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... walls , which were stormed after an assault of six days , when four hundred prisoners only , ten of the number being women , were taken and transported to Asia , according to Darius ' orders ; where they were entreated kindly and ...
... walls , which were stormed after an assault of six days , when four hundred prisoners only , ten of the number being women , were taken and transported to Asia , according to Darius ' orders ; where they were entreated kindly and ...
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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, —...