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Herodotus relates that a Phanes of Halicarnassus deserted to Cambyses and advised an attack through the desert with the help of Arabs. When the battle lines were drawn Phanes’s former colleagues in the Egyptian army cut his sons’ throats in his sight and drank the blood mixed with wine.
Rameses II in Battle of Qadesh
No officer was with me, no charioteer.
No soldier of the army, no shield bearer;
My infantry, my chariotry yielded before them,
Not one of them stood firm to fight with them.
His Majesty spoke: “What is this, my father Amun?
Is it right for a father to ignore his son?"
But he was a son of Asgard. A prince. He wasn’t a traitor. He wouldn’t lead an army against his own brother. His own people.
Would he?
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As two figures took form at its head.
And walked, unhindered, toward the city walls, darkness swarming around them.
Erawan. The golden-haired young man. She’d know it if she were blind.
A dark-haired, pale-skinned woman strode at his side, robes billowing around her on a phantom
wind.
“Maeve,” Lysandra breathed.
People began screaming then.
The king was a warrior and a war-leader, whose courage set him apart. Not only were the enemies cowards who retreated from the Egyptian army, but also the Egyptian troops and their commanders were not on a par with the king in bravery. Battle accounts regularly presented the army as a hindrance to the king’s prowess
The father had made a kingdom; the son would make the kingdom an empire. In almost every one of his 42 years of rule, Charlemagne summoned his army for conquest outside of the kingdom’s borders.
A Visigothic presence in Thrace would provide the Romans with a defensive deterrent in that unpopulated region. What Valens did not realize, however, was how many Visigoths actually wanted to enter into the empire. When an estimated 200,000 Visigoths crossed over the Danube River, Valens found that he could not feed them, and the Visigoths were forced to challenge the Roman army, defeating it at the battle of Adrianople in 378.
The Franks encountered numerous enemies in the early Middle Ages, most of whom were defeated by this infantry force. Chief among these were the Muslim armies that invaded the Frankish lands until 732, when Charles Martel defeated them at the battle of Poitiers and later pushed them below the Pyrenees. The Muslims fought on horseback, and although defeated, put up such a virulent opposition to the Franks that it forever changed the latter’s military strategy. So quick and decisive was this change that when chroniclers describe the Frankish army at the battle of the Dyle, fought in 891, they report that “the Franks are unused to fighting on foot.”
Ostrogoths held the bow in such low esteem that Totila, the king of the Ostrogoths during the sixth-century Byzantine invasion of Italy, refused to allow his army to use bows against the invaders.