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...llied itself with the Germans. All Armenian men aged 20-45 were conscripted to the army as soldiers, soon to be disarmed and serve as pack animals ... ...s. When Russian Armenians recruited Turkish Armenians for the anti-Turkish Russian Army of the Caucasus, in April 1915, the elite of the Armenian c... ... oust the newly independent Venezuela, he advocated the creation of a professional army (in the Cartagena Manifesto). Far from being a revolutionar... ...amen. He then reconquered Caracas, Venezuela's capital, at the head of a small army and declared himself a dictator. He made Congress award him... ...red dictator - or, to be precise, "Emperor" - of Peru and commander in chief of its army. Bolivar liked power and its trappings. In the constitution... ...ans poisoned enemy wells with rye ergot. In the Peloponnesian War (431-404 BC), the Spartans flung sulfur and pitch at the Athenians and their allie...

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...rvaunt, but bade him fight and conquere, or die (Lib. i. c. 41): Like the Spartane imperious Mother, a shield indeede you gave mee, but with this Wo... ...orie of Verona, which was then enemie unto them, the greatest part of the army thought it expedient to demand a safe conduct for their passage of tho... ...ething else shouldest thou wreake thyselfe. Livius speaking of the Romane army in Spaine, after the losse of two great Captaines that were brethren. ... ...ing of Macedon, desirous to get so much time, as he wanted to prepare his army, gave out some motives of accord, wherewith the king inveagled, yeeld... ...weene them, ascribed the pre- excellencie of valor in that conflict to the Spartane nation. The Spartines, impartiall Judges of vertue, when they cam... ...ublish the decree of Pompeys re-appeall unto the Citie, together with his army, at what time the commotion of Catiline was on foot: against which dec... ...rita Laconum. --Cic. Tusc. Qu. v. By our complots the haught renowne, Of Spartan Gallants was brought downe. And Africanus of that other; A sole ex... ... great tree, where the forrest is full of such. I doe not thinke that any Spartane Citizen did boastingly glorifie himselfe for his valour, because ... ... servants, to be drunken that seeing them so lost and buried in wine, the Spartanes might abhor the excesse of that vice. Those were also more to be...

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...f a judge rests in an entire social network of laws-lawyers-police-legislators-Army-Navy-Air force and a whole host of Governmental bodies sworn to p... ...ho ran out into the street with baskets of roast dogs for the latest invading army of conquerors to eat because they had nothing else left to offer t... ...eneration. The dynamic of war is based upon accumulation: you can only get an army by packing together as many men as possible into a solid mass of ... ...g. Until the final debacle of Napoleon invading Russia happened. The largest army ever assembled in human history was defeated not by another oppos... ...ere crushed and sublimated into a sterile Greek culture that had its roots in Spartan ideas, culture, and tradition. Sparta was a Greek military... ...2 lifestyle that came to be admired by the other Greek warrior cultures. The Spartans became so impoverished when there was no war: that they began... ...ves out to rich trading Polis’… just to make ends meet. Turning their entire Spartan cultural ethic of independence into a hypocritical, public jok... .... The Amazons despised all males, and the males all feared the Amazons. The Spartan tribes of lesbians and male homosexuals copulated in revulsion... ...monsters did they create from these kinds of unions? Read the history of the Spartans. Sift the truth from the lies and your eyes will be opened. ...

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...ed as ordained by God. The church was the extension of the colonial power's army and trading companies. It is no wonder that Hitler's Lebensraum col... ...owers and installed loyalists in every corner of the administration and the army. Like Louis- Napoleon, Putin is a populist, travelling throughout th... ...gainst Russia. Like Putin, Napoleon III modernized and professionalized his army. But, unlike Putin hitherto, he actually went to war (against Austr... ...28 BC, Alexander simply ran a lance through his trusted general and had the army declare him a traitor and, thus, justify the slaying. The same fat... ...ave defeated the Persians decisively. His bloodlust never abated: when his army mutinied in India and forced him to return to Babylon, once there, ... ...bsequious historian (and nephew of Aristotle) who wouldn't bow to him. The Spartans held Alexander in derision. They published a decree that read: ...

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...ut having the rich nations adopt the collective generosity of the Salvation Army, Mother Theresa, Albert Schweitzer—or even Robin Hood—is a bit too ... ...eption, abortion, infanticide and suicide for millennia. Whether it was the Spartans of ancient Greece exposing their babies on the hill letting the... ... the issue is even stated. Getting the ignorant to think is like leading an army or rocks. There won’t be any movement. “In spite of the fact ... ... leaders see as essential for the society. Your choices are to serve in the army or to emigrate. 30 “Forcing people who want to drive to ... ...old me about seeing five year olds with their hands cut off by the invading army. Ten year old girls raped and tortured. Villages burned down. ...

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...ernoon warm, a lazy hunting dog at his feet. “I don’t understand how your army crossed the Alps in six or seven days.” “Five days,” he corrected me.... ...d there. I have seen some of it when I was collecting fossils. But for an army to get through, it seems impossible. You had cannons, horses, mules..... ...?” “Some say the Mount Genevre.” “He was a great tactical genius.” “Our army was well led...but there were times when I wished we had some of Hann... ...boys. Which General woke me during the night? Dark days, dark nights. The Army of the Potomac had 100,000 soldiers. Their losses and gains are part ... ...at the negro ought to be a slave—if he shall now fight in the Confederate Army to keep himself a slave, it will be a far better argument why he shou... ...rn again. Here is a book, on my desk, entitled Sparta. I believe that the Spartans were often respected for their courage. What is it men fear mos... ...en fear most? Death? Ten men will have ten answers. From the days of the Spartans men have floundered over freedom—spelling it a hundred different ...

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...owing! A loud voice is no assurance that truth is being spoken. Nor is an army of parrots proclaiming their beliefs a guarantee of objective reality... ... Christian cause. Pope Leo IV guaranteed heaven to those in the Frankish army who might die ‗fighting for the truth of the faith, for the preservat... ... such as research, munitions manufacturing, and the expense of a standing army. Then you have highway and railway building and maintenance. But thes... ...and the fleeing Israelites, then closed in to drown the pursuing Egyptian army in about 1250 BCE. How verifiable is all this? ―The New Test... ...rely the armies to the civilian population which might help support their army. ―So the ‗truth‘ of your decision about Napoleon depends upon w... ...t to a woman‘s life?‖ --―Is all life equally valuable? The ancient Spartans placed their babies on a hill to see which would survive. The sur... ...ables, especially the criminals, by killing them. And as with the ancient Spartans and many other societies, killing of undesirable infants is good ...

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...e of Academus. But Dicaearchus writes that there were two Arcadians in the army of Castor and Pollux, the one called Echedemus and the other Marathus;... ...they took that none should suffer any injury, though there was so great an army within the walls; for the phrase anakos ekhein is used of those who lo... ...ferable, were he not chastised, first rose up in arms, and with a powerful army advanced against him. Romulus likewise prepared to receive him; but wh... ...or to his honor, overcame him in combat, and, a battle ensuing, routed his army also, and then took his city; but did those he found in it no injury, ... ...dorus and other chronologers, computing the time by the successions of the Spartan kings, pretend to demon- strate that he was much more ancient than ... ...inly was the most renowned of all his ancestors, under whose con- duct the Spartans made slaves of the Helots, and added to their dominions, by conque... ...at he him- self exercised the regal jurisdiction only as his guardian; the Spartan name for which office is prodicus. Soon after, an overture was made... ... whole rela- tion, as far as I can find, rests on the single credit of the Spartan Aristocrates, the son of Hipparchus. Lycurgus was much missed at Sp... ...deed, their prerogative being thus reduced within reason- able bounds, the Spartan kings were at once freed from all further jealousies and consequent...

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...is ranks and obey his commander, Sertorius undertook, while Marius led the army, to spy out the enemy’s camp. Procuring a Celtic dress, and acquaintin... ... end, when the slaves whom Marius had freed at his landing to increase his army, being made not only his fellow-soldiers in the war, but also now his ... ... pretending friendship, and putting him in hopes of a peace, corrupted his army, and Scipio could not be made sensible of this, although often forewar... ...pting them from finding lodg- ings for the soldiers, when he commanded his army to take up their winter quarters outside the cities, and to pitch thei... ...to his share; hence it was that he proved the most popular-tempered of the Spartan kings, his early life having added to his natural kingly and comman... ...her was not the effect of his love but of his ambition, that he might have Spartan kings of his posterity. This affair being grown public, it became n... ... ensue. But Lysander was not wanting with an evasion, alleging that if the Spartans were really apprehensive of the oracle, they must have a care of L... ...tion would cease in the mutual concord and agreement of all things, so the Spartan legislator seems to have admitted ambition and emulation, among the... ...ing great naval preparations, resolving with a high hand to dispossess the Spartans of their maritime supremacy . Lysander was eager for the opportuni...

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...d yet not without service in showing the dauntless spirit of the Christian army. But the same can hardly be said of the dar- ing shown by the Emperor ... ... costs and all risks is, however, the very essence of a soldier’s life. An army could not exist with- out it, a ship could not sail without it, and mi... ...m it each man’s simple duty to face death unhesitatingly, so the ‘glorious army of martyrs’ had, for the most part, joined the Church with the expecta... ...ring through Greece seeking aid to recover his rights. He had collected an army, and was come to take leave of his father and sisters; and at the same... ...those who had sons, so that no family might be altogether destroyed. These Spartans, with their helots or slaves, made up his own share of the numbers... ... from listening to a traitorous message from the King of Persia; and every Spartan lady was bred up to be able to say to those she best loved that the... ...not see over the wall, but in front of it, and on the ramparts, he saw the Spartans, some of them engaged in active sports, and others in combing thei... ...king, and told him what he had seen. Now, Xerxes had in his camp an exiled Spartan Prince, named Demaratus, who had become a traitor to his country, a... ... hard fight was no doubt in preparation, and that it was the custom of the Spartans to array their hair with special care when they were about to ente...

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...orical probability must be measured by that of many others relating to the Spartan Confucius. I will conclude this sketch of the Homeric theories, wit... ... in another to a spectator. The course of his verses resembles that of the army he describes, Hoid’ ar’ isan hosei te puri chthon pasa nemoito. “They ... ...every episode and part of story. If he has given a regular catalogue of an army, they all draw up their forces in the same order. If he has funeral ga... ...as by Dido, and Rinaldo by 37 Pope Armida. If Achilles be absent from the army on the score of a quarrel through half the poem, Rinaldo must absent h... ... and his troops from the war. During this in- terval, victory abandons the army, which for nine years has been occupied in a great enterprise, upon th... ...oves along the main. His brother follows, and to vengeance warms The hardy Spartans, exercised in arms: Phares and Brysia’s valiant troops, and those ... ... Say, was it thus, with such a baffled mien, You met the approaches of the Spartan queen, Thus from her realm convey’d the beauteous prize, And both h... ... divide, And, on that stage of war, the cause be tried: By Paris there the Spartan king be fought, For beauteous Helen and the wealth she brought; And... ...he yielding plain. Here in the midst, in either army’s sight, He dares the Spartan king to single fight; And wills that Helen and the ravish’d spoil, ...

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...might be reconquered by theatrical machinery, by the picture of a Royalist Army done to the life! (Dampmartin, Evenemens, i. 208.) Not till the third ... ...neral outlook of things, Bouille himself augurs not well of it. The French Army, ever since those old Bastille days, and earlier, has been universally... ...ntent, jealousy, uncertainty, sullen sus- picious humour. The whole French Army, fermenting in dark heat, glooms ominous, boding good to no one. So th... ...slight variations over all the camps and gar- risons of France. The French Army seems on the verge of universal mutiny. Universal mutiny! There is in ... ... literally, answer we, it is inevitable, in one manner or another. Such an Army, with its four-generation Nobles, its Peculated Pay, and men knotting ... ... with buff-belts. And yet might we not ask: What Argonauts, what Leonidas’ Spartans had done such a work? Think of their destiny: since that May morni... ...d at Paris in the month of February 1792. The beau- tiful and brave: young Spartan, ripe in energy, not ripe in wisdom; over whose black doom there sh... ... publish. That young Barbaroux and the Rolands came together; that elderly Spartan Roland liked, or even loved the young Spartan, and was loved by him...

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...r military chest insol- vent, forage all but exhausted; and that the whole army is about to mutiny, disband, and cut your and each other’s throat,—the... ..., imparted to all?” Quite in an opposite strain is the following: “The old Spartans had a wiser method; and went out and hunted down their Helots, and... ...t. Have them salted and barrelled; could not you victual therewith, if not Army and Navy, yet richly such infirm Paupers, in workhouses and elsewhere,... ...ed Destiny, under that ink-sea of vapor, black, thick, and multifarious as Spartan broth; and was one lone soul amid those grinding millions;—often ha...

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...’s family. Both served for many years in India: the first in the Company’s army, the other upon the staff of the king’s forces in that country. Each, ... ...have lost a day. But what came of the London lady’s or of Mrs. Schreiber’s Spartan discipline? Did the little blind kittens of Gracechurch-street, who... ...apoleon, his very existence depended upon war. He lived by and through the army. Without a succession of wars and martial glories in reserve for the a... ...irected their views to the military profession. In such a case, the king’s army is naturally that to which a young man’s expectations turn. But to wai... ... that Oxford is well able to lodge, and on a very sumptuous scale, a small army of men; which expression of her great splendor I now mention (as I rep... ...is the university. But in Oxford the university expresses, as it were, the army, and the colleges express the several brigades, or regiments. To resum... ...cted in a spirit of religious indifference, though it is remarkable of the Spartans, that of all Greek tribes they were the most facile and numerous d... ... which measures the degree of unnatural con- straint and tension which the Spartan usages involved; but in this case we rather account for the public ... ...ves deceived by the event of any oracular prediction. As usual, there is a Spartan case of this nature. Cleomenes complained bitterly that the Oracle ...

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...d. I could have desired much that the private gain of the soldiers of your army, and the necessity for satisfying them, had not deprived you, especial... ...—who with incredible bravery alone sus- tained the power of his victorious army. Then it was that 58 Essays: Book the First consideration and respect... ...e carried through the territory of Verona, an enemy’s country, most of the army were inclined to demand safe-conduct from the Veronese; but Theodoro T... ...d bury the flesh, reserving the bones to carry continually with him in his army, so often as he should be obliged to go against the Scots, as if desti... ... beloved brother; quarrel with something else. Livy, speaking of the Roman army in Spain, says that for the loss of the two brothers, their great capt... ... coming to divide amongst them the glory of the exploit, attributed to the Spartan nation the pre-eminence of valour in the en- gagement. The Spartans... ...ise, “Consiliis nostris laus est attrita Laconum;” [“The glory of the Spartans is extinguished by my plans. — ”Cicero, Tusc. Quaes., v. 17.] 373...

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...ading name to lead them against us, as the origin of his title had led the army of Gaul of old gloriously, scared sweet 4 Beauchamp’s Career sleep. W... ...wered them boldly, with the appalling statement that we had no navy and no army. At the most we could muster a few old ships, a couple of experimental... ...ition challenged the allegations of Government, pointed to the trimness of army and navy during its term of office, and proclaimed itself watch-dog of... ...r, there was no necessity for watch-dogs to bark; an ardent and a reverent army had but fancied its beloved chosen Chief insulted; the Chief and chose... ...d the effect is woeful 7 George Meredith past measure: his hugging of his army, his kneeling on the shore to his navy, his implorations of his yeoman... ...to have stuck to their posts. Surely there was a conscious weakness in the Spartans, who were always at pains to discipline their 75 George Meredith ... ...d with a vengeance: all the rest of the country being base members indeed; Spartans—helots. Criticism, now so help- ful to us, would wither to the roo... ...hatsoever was of service to Lord Avonley’s victim: and he was not like the Spartan boy with the wolf at his vitals; he betrayed it in the hue his uncl...

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...-shelf against a wall rubbed black and scattered with official notices and army recruiting-posters. The damp, yellow-brick schoolbuilding in its cinde... ...oth was actually begun! On what specific reform should she first loose her army? Dur- ing the gossip after the meeting Mrs. George Edwin Mott remarked... ...’s, a photographer’s “studio,” the lodge- rooms of the Affiliated Order of Spartans and, at the back, the Perrys’ apartment. They received her (their ... ... served as tribal gods the mines, cotton-mills, motor-factories, colleges, army. The East remembered generations when there had been no railroad, and ... ...out of town with the other officers of the Ancient and Affiliated Order of Spartans, to inaugurate a new chapter at Wakamin. Vida had come to the hous... ...istment and draft, the sons of Lyman Cass, Nat Hicks, Sam Clark joined the army. But most of the sol- diers were the sons of German and Swedish farmer... ... quite know what she thought about Kennicott’s going. Certainly she was no Spartan wife. She knew that he wanted to go; she knew that this longing was... ...t about his retiring and about his being killed, but I know he’s got a big army back of him, and he’ll show these damn agitators, lazy beggars hunting...

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...husband is the third son of old Mr. O’More of Ballymakilty, and was in the army.’ ‘Oh! the half-pay officer with the twelve children in the cottage on... ...man too. Old Mr. Pringle’s nephew it was, a very fine young officer in the army. I want you to ask papa if it is true. Nurse says that he wrote to mak... ...n. He knew 151 The Young Step-Mother that Mr. Pringle had a nephew in the army, he recollected that he had made a figure in Maria’s letters to India;... ...r, never were husband and wife more attached. My brother-in-law joined the army of the Prince de Conde, and never was seen after the day of Valmy; and... ...rvice,’ removing the best officers, first from the mess, and then from the army. ‘What a pity William was born too late to be a Knight of St. John!’ s... ...lbinia philosophical.’ ‘Y ou make me so on the principle of the Helots and Spartans.’ It was possible to get to Hadminster by half-past seven, and on ... ...Ulick out of so poor a match, and at least put a decided veto upon Sophy’s Spartan magnanimity—Sophy’s health and feelings being the subject, she some...

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...stealing the hogs of Curl Trenary, Instead of running away and joining the army. Rather a thousand times the county jail Than to lie under this marble... ...rance, hiding nor nurturing Nor secret griefs nor grudges. That act of the Spartan boy is greatly praised, Who hid the wolf under his cloak, Letting i... ... Armour, Altgeld or myself That ruined me? Ezra Bartlett A CHAPLAIN in the army, A chaplain in the prisons, An exhorter in Spoon River, Drunk with div... ...duty. 73 Edgar Lee Masters Mrs. Kessler MR. KESSLER, you know, was in the army, And he drew six dollars a month as a pension, And stood on the corner... ...e, for the government fed you. Y ou did not suffer yet cry “forward” To an army which you led Against a foe with mocking smiles, Sharper than bayonets... ...ls. Y ou went to Manila, Harry Wilmans, While I enlisted in the bedraggled army Of bright-eyed, divine youths, Who surged forward, who were driven bac...

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...and of Egypt. 22 At the same time Abimelech, and Phicol the general of his army, said to Abraham: God is with thee in all that thou dost. 23 Swear the... ...ague for the well of oath. 33 And Abimelech and Phicol, the general of his army, arose and returned to the land of the Palestines. But Abraham planted... ...rought into Egypt, and Putiphar, an eunuch of Pharao, chief captain of the army, an Egyptian, bought him of the Is- maelites, by whom he was brought. ... ...l not hear you: and I will lay my hand upon Egypt, and will bring forth my army and my people, the children of Israel, out of the land of Egypt, by ve... ..., to con rm and to renew the amity with them: 2 And he sent letters to the Spartans, and to other places, according to the same form. 3 And they went ... ...ith peace. 5 And this is a copy of the letters which Jonathan wrote to the Spartans: 6 Jonathan, the high priest, and the ancients of the nation, and ... ...he nation, and the priests, and the rest of the people of the Jews, to the Spartans, their brethren, greeting. 7 There were letters sent long ago to O... ...s the copy of the letter which he had sent to Onias: 20 Arius, king of the Spartans, to Onias, the high priest, greeting. 21 It is found in writing co... ...re the assembly in Jerusalem. And this is the copy of the letters that the Spartans sent. 20 The princes and the cities of the Spartans, to Simon, the...