On their decisive battlefield Lincoln did not distinguish between them when he paid tribute to the `` brave men, living and dead, who fought here ''.

His men fought well in the morning, putting up a stout resistance, but as overwhelming Confederate forces massed against them, their line eventually broke and they retreated back through the town of Gettysburg to the relative safety of Cemetery Hill south of town.

Finally, Marc Antony rallied the remaining forces in Italy, fought through the blockade and made the crossing, reinforcing Caesar's forces in both men and spirit.

: ... our men fought in and through the fire ... until many on both sides were burned to death.

Douglas fought in the King's own Battle, but when the fight seemed over Douglas was dragged by his men from the melee.

Some were Nazi collaborators who had fought under General Andrey Vlasov, but most were ordinary Soviet officers and men.

* Paris sent a corps of 2000 men, 1750 of which fought on the battlefield.

Nevertheless, the old and the new men of the Foreign Legion fought and died in vicious battles on the Western front, including Belloy-en-Santerre during the Battle of the Somme, where Seeger, after being mortally wounded by machine-gun fire, cheered on the rest of his advancing battalion.

He led his men in brutal campaigns against the Indians in the west ; in 10 months units of his regiment fought 20 battles, and lost a third of its men.

The film was completed in September 1931, but the censorship of the Hays Code prevented it from being released as Hawks and Hughes had originally intended, and the two men fought the Hays Office ( and made compromises ) for over a year until the film was released in 1932, after such other pivotal early gangster films as The Public Enemy and Little Caesar.

The two men were once again at odds and fought each other in France until Richard was on the verge of totally defeating Philip II.

In 457, Hengist and Esc fought against British forces in Crayford " and there slew four thousand men ".

Rudyard Kipling, who wrote a history of the Irish Guards, in which his own son fought and was killed, noted that, " it is undeniable that Colonel Alexander had the gift of handling the men on the lines to which they most readily responded ... His subordinates loved him, even when he fell upon them blisteringly for their shortcomings ; and his men were all his own.

At the Crossbarry Ambush in March 1921, 100 or so of Barry's men fought a sizeable engagement with a British column of 1, 200, escaping from the British encircling manoeuvre.

Plutarch claimed that the army had fought against three million men during the Gallic Wars, of whom one million died, and another million were enslaved.

" Davis stated that men in the Confederacy had successfully fought for their own rights with inferior numbers during the Civil War and that the northern historians ignored this view.

Cromwell " well knew that while the Long Parliament, that noble company, who had fought the great battle of liberty from the beginning, remained in session, and such men as Vane were enabled to mingle in its deliberations, it would be utterly useless for him to think of executing his purposes ( to set up a Protectorate or Dictatorship ).

In modern times and in several genres, she is compared with the figure of the Virgin Mary, La Llorona ( folklore story of the woman weeping for lost children ) and with the Mexican soldaderas ( women who fought beside men during the Mexican Revolution ) for their brave actions.

They fought packed in a close rectangular formation, typically eight men deep, with a leader at the head of each column and a secondary leader in the middle, so that the back rows could move off to the sides if more frontage was needed.

The first contact between indigenous civilizations of Mesoamerica and Europeans took place during his reign, and he was killed during the initial stages of the Spanish conquest of Mexico, when Conquistador Hernán Cortés and his men fought to escape from the Aztec capital Tenochtitlan.

Though fighting was mostly left to the boys and men, occasionally women fought with them, especially if the tribe was severely threatened.

Accounts note that Richard fought bravely and ably during this manoeuvre, unhorsing Sir John Cheney, a well-known jousting champion, killing Henry's standard bearer Sir William Brandon and coming within a sword's length of Henry himself before being finally surrounded by Sir William Stanley's men and killed.

The American Equal Rights Association ( AERA ), which had originally fought for both blacks ’ and women ’ s right to suffrage, voted to support the 15th Amendment to the Constitution, granting suffrage to black men, but not women.

He knew who was riding after him -- the men he had known all his life, the men who had worked for him, sworn their loyalty to him.

It was, I felt, possible that they were men who, having received no tickets for that day, had remained in the hall, to sleep perhaps, in the corners farthest removed from the counter with its overhead light.

The three men stepped out to the side to wait for Captain Clemens' signal.

Indeed, you wouldn't live long, for the females either drive the men they've seized from neighboring islands back to their boats after exploiting them for amatory purposes, or they destroy them by revolting but ingenious methods.

`` Karipo's women then named this place ' Eromonga ' -- manhood -- for just the strongest men could stay here.

A Southerner married to a New Englander, I have lived for many years in a Connecticut commuting town with a high percentage of artists, writers, publicity men, and business executives of egghead tastes.

By prevailing over other claimants for the loyalties of men, the nation-state maintained an adequate measure of certainty and order within its territorial borders.

There is little time for the men in the command centers to reflect about the implications of these clocks.

After that, it requires several minutes of concentrated work, including six separate and deliberate actions by a minimum of three men sitting at three separate stations in a bomber, each with another man beside him to help, for an armed bomb to be released.

But before this came about, 214,938 Americans had given their lives in battle for the two concepts of the sovereign rights of men and of states.

Righteous in their denunciation of all that makes for death, the beat prophets bid all men become cool cats ; ;

The capacity for making the distinctions of which diplomacy is compact, and the facility with language which can render them into validity in the eyes of other men are the leader's means for transforming the moral intuition into moral leadership.

An interregnum ensues in which not men but ideas compete for existence.

Mann understood better than most men the incest comedy at the center of the myth and the psychological truth in which dread is shown as the other face as longing was for him just the kind of deep and complicated joke he liked to tell.

He is the stern guardian of the status quo who has raised the utilitarian structures of the age, and he is the revolutionary poet with a gun in his hand who writes a tragic apologetic to posterity for the men he has killed.

The men who speculate on these institutions have, for the most part, come to at least one common conclusion: that many of the great enterprises and associations around which our democracy is formed are in themselves autocratic in nature, and possessed of power which can be used to frustrate the citizen who is trying to assert his individuality in the modern world ''.

and although it was a school for men only, it afforded Henrietta an opportunity to attend its public lectures.

It purported to be a reasonably serious attempt at a treatment of jazz musicians, their aims, their problems -- the tug-of-war between the `` pure '' and the `` commercial '' -- and seemed a promising vehicle, for the two men shared a common interest in jazz.

When we consider the disorganized state of the world community, and the legacy of predispositions adversely directed against all who are identified as Jews, it is obvious that the struggle for the minds and muscles of men needs to be prosecuted with increasing vigor and skill.

Trevelyan's Liberalism was above all a liberalism of the spirit, a deep feeling of communion with men fighting for country and for liberty.

Thomas thanked his men for their tenacity of purpose, unmurmuring endurance, cheerful obedience, brilliant heroism and high qualities in battle.