The Great Battles of All Nations from Marathon to Santiago, 490 B. C.--A.D. 1898, Volym 1P. F. Collier, 1899 |
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The Great Battles of All Nations from Marathon to Santiago, 490 B ..., Volym 1 Archibald Wilberforce Obegränsad förhandsgranskning - 1898 |
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Alexander allies archers Arminius arms army assailants Athenian Athens attack Attila Austrians barbarians battalions battle besiegers Boabdil camp campaign Carthage Carthaginian cavalry charge Christian coast command conquered conquest Consul crossed crusaders Danube Darius defeat defense Desaix Duke emperor empire enemy England English fell Ferdinand fight fire flank fleet followed force fought France French garrison gates Gaul Goths Granada Greeks ground guard Gylippus Hannibal Harold Hasdrubal head Herodotus Holy horse hundred infantry invaders Italy king lance land Lannes legions Lord Macedonian Marathon Mardonius Marengo Marlborough Medes military Miltiades Moorish Moors mountains Muza nations night Normans Orleans passed Persian plain Prince ranks re-enforcements rear retreat Roman Rome sent ships Sicily side siege soldiers soon sovereigns Spain Spartans spirit squadrons surrender sword Themistocles thousand took town troops valor vega victory walls warriors whole wing wounded Xerxes
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Sida 347 - Bohemia's plume, and Genoa's bow, and Caesar's eagle shield. So glared he when at Agincourt in wrath he turned to bay, And crushed and torn beneath his claws the princely hunters lay. Ho ! strike the flagstaff deep, Sir Knight : ho ! scatter flowers, fair maids : Ho! gunners, fire a loud salute: ho! gallants, draw your blades : Thou sun, shine on her joyously ; ye breezes, waft her wide; Our glorious SEMPER EADEM, the banner of our pride.
Sida 356 - I know I have the body of a weak and feeble woman, but I have the heart and stomach of a king, and of a king of England too...
Sida 356 - ... midst and heat of the battle, to live or die amongst you all, to lay down for my God, and for my kingdom, and for my people, my honour and my blood, even in the dust. I know I have the body of a weak and feeble woman...
Sida 346 - With his white hair unbonneted, the stout old sheriff comes ; Behind him march the halberdiers; before him sound the drums; His yeomen round the market cross make clear an ample space ; For there behoves him to set up the standard of Her Grace. And haughtily the trumpets peal, and gaily dance the bells, As slow upon the labouring wind the royal blazon swells.
Sida 151 - Your lives,' replied the haughty conqueror. They trembled and retired. Yet before they retired, a short suspension of arms was granted, which allowed some time for a more temperate negotiation.
Sida 436 - Brueys' own ship, of one hundred and twenty guns, whose difference of force was in proportion of more than seven to three, and whose weight of ball from the lower deck alone exceeded that from the whole broadside of the Bellerophon.
Sida 350 - ... self-government, passes suddenly under a despotic ruler. The energy of democratic institutions survives for a few generations, and to it are superadded the decision and certainty which are the attributes of government when all its powers are directed by a single mind. It is true that this preternatural vigor is short-lived : national corruption and debasement gradually follow the loss of the national liberties; but there is an interval before their workings are felt, and in that interval the...
Sida 356 - My loving people, we have been persuaded by some that are careful of our safety, to take heed how we commit ourselves to armed multitudes, for fear of treachery ; but I assure you, I do not desire to live to distrust my faithful and loving people. Let tyrants fear ! I have always so behaved myself, that, under God, I have placed my chiefest strength and safeguard in the loyal hearts and good will of my subjects...
Sida 356 - I am come amongst you, as you see, at this time, not for my recreation and disport, but being resolved, in the midst and heat of the battle, to live or die amongst you all, to lay down for my God, and for my kingdom, and for my people, my honour and my blood, even in the dust.
Sida 186 - Nor were the chiefs Of victory less assured, by long success Elate, and proud of that o'erwhelming strength Which, surely they believed, as it had rolled Thus far uncheck'd, would roll victorious on, Till, like the Orient, the subjected West Should bow in reverence at Mohammed's name ; And pilgrims from remotest Arctic shores Tread with religious feet the burning sands Of Araby and Mecca's stony soil.