The Opuntian Locrians worshiped Ajax as their national hero, and so great was their faith in him that when they drew up their army in battle, they always left one place open for him, believing that, although invisible to them, he was fighting for and among them.

While tanks are seen as being integral to armoured warfare, in forces with a remit of power projection deployability has always been a consideration, which conventional main battle tanks cannot provide.

One of his paraphrases from a well-known line in Ecclesiastes ran: " The race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, but that's how the smart money bets.

In the latter type of engagement they would often ( though not always ) dismount some or all of the horsemen to fight a stationary battle on foot, an unusual tactic for the time, but one that offered significant advantages in stability and agility in a time before stirrups.

Since armies could not live off the land indefinitely, Napoleon Bonaparte always sought a quick end to any conflict by pitched battle.

This is evident in battle, as evidenced in " Soldiers of the Empire " in which a Klingon speaks admiringly of Cardassian adversaries who always had " a plan within a plan within a plan leading to a trap ".

Many SAWs ( such as the RPK and L86 ) are modified assault rifles or battle rifles that may have increased ammunition capacity and heavier barrels to withstand continued fire and will almost always have a bipod.

Eastern historians, like their Western counterparts, have not always agreed on the importance of the battle.

" Antonio Santosuosso points that “ they ( the Muslims ) called the battle's location, the road between Poitiers and Tours, " the pavement of Martyrs ".” However, as Henry Coppée pointed out, " The same name was given to the battle of Toulouse and is applied to many other fields on which the Moslemah were defeated: they were always martyrs for the faith.

Grant said of the battle in his memoirs, " I have always regretted that the last assault at Cold Harbor was ever made.

Alexander called the removal of Longstreet the critical juncture of the battle: " I have always believed that, but for Longstreet's fall, the panic which was fairly underway in Hancock's Corps would have been extended & have resulted in Grant's being forced to retreat back across the Rapidan.

Computer insecurity is the concept that a computer system is always vulnerable to attack, and that this fact creates a constant battle between those looking to improve security and those looking to circumvent security.

They were almost always the first assault element to make contact in a battle, and often the most effective.

Nanking is the capital of China and the capture thereof is an international affair ; therefore, careful study should be made so as to exhibit the honor and glory of Japan and augment the trust of the Chinese people, and that the battle in the vicinity of Shanghai is aimed at the subjugation of the Chinese Army, therefore protect and patronize Chinese officials and people, as afar as possible ; the Army should always bear in mind not to involve foreign residents and armies in trouble and maintain close liaison with foreign authorities in order to avoid misunderstandings.

Tigers have always been an eternal rival to the dragon, thus various artworks depict a dragon and tiger fighting an epic battle.

He always tries to get around the rules in an ongoing battle of wills with security chief Nathan Ramsey.

As stipulated in a Royal warrant of 1569, the yellow cross was always to be borne on Swedish battle standards and banners.

High adds that Gunnr (" war "), Róta, and Skuld — the latter of the three he refers to as " the youngest norn "—" always ride to choose the slain and decide the outcome of battle ".

The insightful quotation, " It's a great life, if you don't weaken ," is famously attributed to Buchan, as is, " No great cause is ever lost or won, The battle must always be renewed, And the creed must always be restated.

The Old Norse word hildr is a common noun meaning " battle " and it is not always clear when the poets had the valkyrie in mind, as a personification of battle.

* Gideon Rose, How Wars End: Why we always fight the last battle, a history of American intervention from World War I to Afghanistan ( New York: Simon & Schuster, 2010 ).

The local politics of the Scrubs are a constant battle between vigilant groups like The Friends of Wormwood Scrubs and various interests — the railway, the local council and others — who always have an eye to building on the green space.

Today a battle cry may seem an anachronism, for in the modern Army, esprit de corps has been sacrificed to organizational charts and tables.

Gladden has been an outspoken critic of the present city administration and led his union's battle against the teamsters, which began organizing city firemen in 1959.

Azincourt is famous as being near the site of the battle fought on 25 October 1415 in which the army led by King Henry V of England defeated the forces led by Charles d ' Albret on behalf of Charles VI of France, which has gone down in English history as the Battle of Agincourt.

He has the virtue of never losing a battle ( Section 2 ).

Ajax's prayer to Zeus to remove the fog that has descended on the battle to allow them to fight or die in the light of day has become proverbial.

Léon Fleuriot has suggested Ambrosius is identical to Riothamus, a Brythonic leader who fought a major battle against the Goths in France around the year 470.

Ares may also be accompanied by Kydoimos, the demon of the din of battle ; the Makhai (" Battles "); thev " Hysminai " (" Acts of manslaughter "); Polemos, a minor spirit of war, or only an epithet of Ares, since it has no specific dominion ; and Polemos's daughter, Alala, the goddess or personification of the Greek war-cry, whose name Ares uses as his own war-cry.

In this passage, a soldier asks the Buddha if it is true that, as he has been told, soldiers slain in battle are reborn in a heavenly realm.

In his discussion of Armageddon, J. Dwight Pentecost has devoted an entire chapter to the subject, titled " The Campaign of Armageddon ", in which he discusses Armageddon as a campaign and not a specific battle, which will be fought in the Middle East.

After a period of fifty years has passed, Beowulf defeats a dragon, but is fatally wounded in the battle.

It has also been argued that this is the third part of the poem since it describes the settings during the time lapse before the final battle between Beowulf and the Dragon.

The defining characteristic of the battle as a concept in Military science has been a dynamic one through the course of military history, changing with the changes in the organisation, employment and technology of military forces.

The use of the term " battle " in military history has led to its misuse when referring to almost any scale of combat, notably by strategic forces involving hundreds of thousands of troops that may be engaged in either a single battle at one time ( Battle of Leipzig ) or multiple operations ( Battle of Kursk ).

EW has been used in battle by Japan and several other nations have developed and been accused of using an entomological warfare program.

More recently, a discovery of Roman artefacts in Kings Norton close to Metchley Camp has suggested another possibility, and a thorough examination of a stretch of Watling Street between St. Albans, Boudica's last known location, and the Fosse Way junction has suggested the Cuttle Mill area of Paulerspury in Northamptonshire, which has topography very closely matching that described by Tacitus of the scene of the battle.

The battle has remained prominent in the popular consciousness, with perhaps the best-known representation being Felicia Hemans's 1826 poem Casabianca.

It has never been firmly established how the fire on Orient broke out, but one common account is that jars of oil and paint had been left on the poop deck, rather than properly stowed away after paintwork on the ship's hull had been completed shortly before the battle.

In spite of the overwhelming British victory in the climactic battle, the campaign has sometimes been considered a strategic success for France.

Historian Edward Ingram has noted that if Nelson had successfully intercepted Bonaparte at sea as ordered, the ensuing battle could have annihilated both the French fleet and the transports.