According to Greek tradition, he helped Cretan or Arcadian colonists found the city of Troy.

According to the Greek tradition the Dipylon master was named Daedalus, and in his statues the limbs were freed from the body, giving the impression that the statues could move.

According to a controversial tradition reported by several medieval sources, Narses, out of spite for having been removed by Justinian's successor Justin II, called the Lombards to Italy.

According to Arab tradition, the ensuing war pushed Ghana over the edge, ending the kingdom's position as a commercial and military power by 1100, as it collapsed into tribal groups and chieftaincies, some of which later assimilated into the Almoravids while others founded the Mali Empire.

According to Sunni tradition the following verses of the Qur ' an were revealed due to this:

According to these statements, claims that one or more denominations might be the " true Church " are nothing more than propaganda which has evolved over centuries to support authoritarian claims --- based on tradition or based on scripture --- of merely human institutions.

According to tradition, Paul ordained Titus bishop of Gortyn in Crete.

According to the Jain tradition either lacto vegetarianism or veganism is mandatory.

Meteorologists ( and most of the temperate countries in the southern hemisphere ) use a definition based on months, with autumn being September, October and November in the northern hemisphere, According to United States tradition, autumn runs from the day after Labor Day ( i. e. the Tuesday following the first Monday of September ) through Thanksgiving ( i. e. the fourth Thursday in November ), after which the holiday season that demarcates the unofficial beginning of winter begins.

According to family tradition, the family had included one of the most prolific Rococo painters of the ancien régime, Fragonard, whose handling of color and expressive, confident brushwork influenced later painters.

According to Jewish tradition the author was Samuel himself, but this idea is no longer regarded as tenable.

According to early tradition, this book was composed near the end of Domitian's reign, around the year 95 AD.

According to Jewish tradition the author of Kings was Jeremiah, whose life overlapped the fall of Jerusalem in 586 BCE.

According to tradition, Bernard founded the monastery on 25 June 1115, naming it Claire Vallée, which evolved into Clairvaux.

According to Ivinskaya, " He began to say what an authentic event the funeral was -- an expression of what people really felt, and so characteristic of the Russia which stoned its prophets and did its poets to death as a matter of longstanding tradition.

According to tradition, a claim was once made that the shattering of a pumpkin frozen in liquid nitrogen and dropped from a sufficient height would produce a triboluminescent spark.

According to tradition, three generations before Confucius ' time, his ancestors had migrated from the Song state to the Lu state.

According to tradition, a Praetorian named Gratus found him hiding behind a curtain and suddenly declared him princeps.

According to one such tradition, she is the personification of the Earth itself ; according to another, its actual mother, being Prithvi Tattwa, the essence of the element earth.

According to tradition, the Colonna are a branch of the Counts of Tusculum — by Peter ( 1099 – 1151 ) son of Gregory III, called Peter " de Columna " from his property, the Columna Castle, in Colonna, Alban Hills.

According to Epiphanius Scholasticus, he was born in Athens, but there is also a tradition of an Alexandrian birth.

According to a tradition preserved in Eastern Christian folklore, Golgotha was the summit of the cosmic mountain at the center of the world and the location where Adam had been both created and buried.

According to this tradition, when Christ is crucified, his blood falls on Adam's skull, buried at the foot of the cross, and redeems him.

According to Christian tradition, Christ descended to hell after his death, in order to free the souls there ; this event is known as the harrowing of hell.

According to tradition, bits of hay are spread beneath the tablecloth as a reminder that Christ was born in a manger.

According to the depiction in the chapter 217 of 《 道法会元 》, a biography of Taoism and Chinese mythical stories complied in Ming Dynasty ; Tiānpéng Yuánshuài was a blazing powerful marshal in the North Pole.

According to news accounts, former marshal Bill Smith accused Wyatt of using his office to help hire his brothers as lawmen.

According to historian and Israeli Army and U. S. Marine Corps veteran Bryan Mark Rigg, up to 160, 000 one-quarter, one-half, and even full Jewish men served in the German armed forces during World War II, including several generals and at least one field marshal, Erhard Milch.

According to an anonymous air marshal, they are trained to " shoot to stop ", typically firing at the largest part of the body ( the chest ) and then the head to " incapacitate the nervous system ".

According to Congressman John J. Duncan, the air marshal program has led to only 4. 2 arrests a year, at an average cost of $ 200 million per arrest.

According to legend Brooks went to Butte, Montana where he attempted to become the city marshal but, in part because of Brooks reputation, was instead passed over in favor of Morgan Earp.

According to a police officer standing near the affected area, the seats hadn't been installed in time for the fire marshal to inspect them.

According to NATO, the general role of artillery is to provide fire support, which is defined as " the application of fire, coordinated with the maneuver of forces to destroy, neutralize, or suppress the enemy.

According to the documentary Once Upon a Time, Sergio Leone, the film opened in medias res as the camera goes from focusing on a Russian hiding from the Nazis ' artillery fire to panning hundreds of feet away to show the German Panzer divisions approaching the walls of the city.

According to this book at the time of the outbreak of the Crimean War many English industrialists and inventors became interested in military technology and Bessemer himself developed a method for grooving artillery projectiles so that they could spin without the use of rifling in the bore of the gun.

According to a British witness, a retreating Polish artillery unit was shot at by Germans from within a house ; the Poles returned fire and were subsequently shot at from a Jesuit church.

According to a popular legend, the capital was moved when the emperor's advisers brought the emperor to the hills surrounding Nanjing and pointed out the emperor's palace showing the vulnerability of the palace to artillery attack.

According to an account from the period: The Lord General hath caused a bridge to be built upon barges and lighters over the Thames between Fulham and Putney, to convey his army and artillery over into Surrey, to follow the king's forces ; and he hath ordered that forts shall be erected at each end thereof to guard it ; but for the present the seamen, with long boats and shallops full of ordnance and musketeers, lie there upon the river to secure it.

Egyptian pilots were rigid, slow to react and unwilling to improvise According to U. S. intelligence estimates, Egypt lost 109 aircraft, most in air-to-air combat for the loss of only 16 Israeli, most to anti-aircraft artillery or SAMs.

According to some sources, the Iraqi militia forces were attacking the local Basra civilians, attempting to stop the revolt, with artillery and mortars.

According to the pre-war French war strategy document, Plan XVII, German forces in the area were only expected to be light, with French light, rapid-firing artillery proving advantageous in a wooded terrain such as that found in the Ardennes.

According to the Germans, the German counterattack had cost the Red Army an estimated 23, 000 soldiers dead, along with 615 tanks and 352 artillery pieces lost.

According to some reports, a band of fifes and drums can be heard up to 3 miles away over artillery fire.

According to battle reports from the 2003 invasion of Iraq, Type 69-QMs were used by the Iraqi Army units defending Nasiriyah in March 2003, most of them being employed as artillery pillboxes.

According to other accounts, he participated as a military engineer and artillery commander in the campaigns against Novgorod ( 1477-1478 ), Kazan ( 1482 ) and Tver ( 1485 ).

According to Pigot's Directory of 1824, the barracks housed two companies of foot, had apartments for three officers, a bomb and waterproof magazine and an artillery battery mounting three 12-pound guns.

According to an estimate by Jadunath Sarkar ; Jai Singh's regular army did not exceed 40, 000 men, which would have cost about 60 lakhs a year, but his strength lay in the large number of artillery and copious supply of munitions which he was careful to maintain and his rule of arming his foot with matchlocks instead of the traditional Rajput sword and shield-He had the wisdom to recognize early the change which firearms had introduced in Indian warfare and to prepare for himself for the new war by raising the fire-power of his army to the maximum, he thus anticipated the success of later Indian rulers like Mirza Najaf Khan, Mahadji Sindhia and Tipu Sultan.

According to Captain Cremony, however, a prominent Apache who was present in the engagement had said that sixty-three warriors were killed by the artillery, while only three died from small arms fire.

According to Abbé Joachim le Grand, Imam Ahmad received 2000 musketeers from Arabia, and artillery and 900 picked men from the Ottomans to assist him.

According to GlobalSecurity. org, during the December 1994 battle for Grozny in Chechnya, every fourth or fifth Russian artillery or mortar round fired was a smoke or white phosphorus round.

" According to one Russian veteran, Soviet artillery was fired without proper guidance, killing scores of Red Army soldiers ".

According to Band of Brothers, though ostensibly evacuated for severe trench foot, his transfer was due in part to combat fatigue, culminating when Compton witnessed two of his closest friends, Joseph Toye and William Guarnere, being badly maimed by artillery fire resulting in each losing a leg.

According to Davis, soldiers buried three pieces of artillery on the island.

According to his citation he died while fearlessly exposing himself in an artillery barrage in order to get his men into a safer position.