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But it is most interesting in its account of the unending problems of high command, of decisions and their reasons, of the myriad matters that demand attention in addition to battle action.
An explanation for this choice can only be conjectured from Ibn al-Athir ’ s account of the battle between Alp-Arslan and Kutalmish, in which he writes that Alp-Arslan wept for the latter's death and greatly mourned the loss of his kinsman.
Abner is only referred to incidentally in Saul's history ( 1 Samuel 17: 55, 26: 5 ), and is not mentioned in the account of the disastrous battle of Gilboa when Saul's power was crushed.
" One example is Isidore of Seville's account of Alaric's reign: consisting of a single paragraph, it is primarily about Alaric's death in that battle.
The final conflict was provoked by Antony, who is said to have been persuaded by his lover, the queen Cleopatra of Egypt, to retire to her land and give battle to mask his retreat ; but lack of provisions and the growing demoralization of his army would eventually account for this decision.
* Caesar's account of the battle
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.
One of the best known poems about the battle is Casabianca, which was written by Felicia Dorothea Hemans in 1826 and describes a fictional account of the death of Captain Casabianca's son on Orient.
This theory is based on the absence of any mention of cavalry in Herodotus ' account of the battle, and an entry in the Suda dictionary.
The Fragmentary Annals of Ireland contain an account of the battle, and this attributes the defeat of the Norsemen to the intercession of Saint Columba following fasting and prayer.
The identity of the threesome is neatly underscored by a patriotic account of their roles during Greece's great victory over Persia at the Battle of SalamisAeschylus fought there, Sophocles was just old enough to celebrate the victory in a boys ' chorus and Euripides was born on the very day of the battle.
Within Fulcher of Chartres account of pope Urban ’ s speech there was a promise of remission of sins for whoever took part in the crusade. All who die by the way, whether by land or by sea, or in battle against the pagans, shall have immediate remission of sins.
The Song of Roland, a highly romanticized account of this battle, would later become one of the most famous chansons de geste of the Middle Ages.
This battle involves the military strategy of the general Sun Bin ( descendent of Sun Tzu ), and is the first battle in recorded history to give a reliable account of the handheld crossbow with trigger mechanism.
Early Muslim sources take this account literally, and there are several hadith where Muhammad discusses the Angel Jibreel and the role he played in the battle.
However it must be taken into account that the Germanic victors would have removed the bodies of their fallen, and their practice of burying their own dead warriors ' battle gear with them must have contributed to the lack of Germanic relics.
The account of the battle Carmen de Hastingae Proelio (" Song of the Battle of Hastings "), said to have been written shortly after the battle by Guy, Bishop of Amiens, says that Harold was killed by four knights, probably including Duke William, and his body brutally dismembered.
The account of the battle given in the earliest source, the Carmen de Hastingae Proelio, is one where the Norman advance surprises the English, who manage to gain the top of Senlac Hill before the Normans.
Like most of his episodes, Blind Harry's account of the battle of Stirling Bridge is highly improbable, for example his use of figures of a biblical magnitude for the size of the participating armies.
Nevertheless, his highly dramatised and graphic account of the battle fed the imaginations of subsequent generations of Scottish schoolchildren.
The account of the battle between David and Goliath is told in 1 Samuel, chapter 17.
The official account of the battle depicts exhausted and depleted Communist forces in a desperate situation, where they must fight across a bridge that is guarded by the numerically superior forces of Chiang Kai-shek and his warlord allies.

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also he is a drunk, and has lost his job on that account.
But however we come, finally, to explain and account for the present, the truth we are trying to expose, right now, is that the makers of constitutions and the designers of institutions find it difficult if not impossible to anticipate the behavior of the host of all their enterprises.
The flood is not as great -- only 700 a week according to one apparently conservative account -- but it is symptomatic.
Taking account of the fact that such a move on our part would be unpopular in world opinion, he argued that the responsibility of the United States is `` to do, confidently and firmly, not what is popular, but what is right ''.
Essentially, the question presented for decision in the present Daytime Skywave proceeding is whether our decision ( in 1938-1939 ) to assign stations on the basis of daytime conditions from sunrise to sunset, is sound as a basis for AM allocations, or whether, in the light of later developments and new understanding, skywave transmission is of such significance during the hours immediately before sunset and after sunrise that this condition should be taken into account, and some stations required to afford protection to other stations during these hours.
In addition to its major effort on fuel cells, Patterson Moos Research Division is continuing to carry on research in other fields, both under contract for the Defense Department, other government agencies and for our own account.
There must be a restriction in the deed to provide that the customer may not be charged more than the current market price for the oil, an obvious precaution, since the account is permanently wedded, just like with gas or electricity.
Although we are still far from a complete understanding of these problems, as a first approximation, it is suggested that alterations in the hypothalamic balance with consequent changes in the hypothalamic-cortical discharges account for major changes in behavior seen in various moods and states of emotions in man and beast under physiological circumstances, in experimental and clinical neurosis, and as the result of psychopharmacological agents.
No single explanation is adequate to account for this.
All of this must be taken into account before the image of an `` all-Negro '' D.C. public school system is conjured up.
In general, friendly contact with a member followed by contact with a clergyman will account for a major share of recruitment by the churches, making it quite evident that the extension of economic integration through co-optation is the principal form of mission in the contemporary church ; ;
Not only should this provision be enforced but other economic and political actions might be taken which, this author believes, `` must surely be supported by every American who values the freedom that has been won for him and whose conscience is not so dominated by the lines in his account books that he can willingly and knowingly contribute to the enslavement of another nation ''.
In 1961, it is estimated that multiple unit dwellings will account for nearly 30 per cent of the starts in residential construction.
Naturally, where one or the other of the effects of an action is uncertain, this has to be taken into account.
Presumably, if the reverse is the case and the good effect is more certain than the evil result that may be forthcoming, not only must the good and the evil be prudentially weighed and found proportionate, but also calculation of the probabilities and of the degree of certainty or uncertainty in the good or evil effect must be taken into account.
For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision nor uncircumcision but a new creation is of any account.
George Kennan's account of relations between Russia and the West from the fall of Tsarism to the end of World War 2, is the finest piece of diplomatic history that has appeared in many years.

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From next New Year's Day let us keep careful account of each successive fatality on the highways, publicizing it on all media of communication.
This is distinct from technical support and other lines which use ANI so that a computer can automatically display the customer's account on a " screen pop " for the next available customer service representative: the MCI number is intended specifically for ANAC use.
They are used in order for the agent in the call center to confirm the phone the customer is calling from, so that a computer can automatically display the customer's account on a " screen pop " for the next available customer service representative ; they are distinct from purpose-made toll-free ANAC numbers.
Churchill's account of the First World War, The World Crisis, describes Beatty's next order as, " Steer two points nearer the enemy.
By his own account, the next morning he met a kind woman, Mariah Watkins, from whom he wished to rent a room.
It is similar to other supposed lake monsters in Scotland and elsewhere, though its description varies from one account to the next.
The next earliest account of Luke is in the Anti-Marcionite Prologue to the Gospel of Luke, a document once thought to date to the 2nd century, but which has more recently been dated to the later 4th century.
The next year it was noted, " the doctors declared that the Sultan cannot leave for war on account of his bad health, produced by excesses of eating and drinking ".
He was both ordained as a bishop and crowned Pope on the next day in a subdued ceremony on account of it falling during the Lenten season.
John Stuart Mill's distinction between higher and lower pleasures might suggest that he gave more status to humans but in The Methods of Ethics Sidgwick says " We have next to consider who the " all " are, whose happiness is to be taken into account.
Clausius showed, however, that we must take into account the work that the molecules of the working body, i. e., the water molecules in the cylinder, do on each other as they pass or transform from one step of or state of the engine cycle to the next, e. g., from ( P < sub > 1 </ sub >, V < sub > 1 </ sub >) to ( P < sub > 2 </ sub >, V < sub > 2 </ sub >).
In November 2010 the UK and US each account for approximately 43 % and 34 % of readers ( by page impressions ), with Canada being the next most significant origin of page hits at ~ 3 %.
Huysmans ' next novel, En rade, an unromantic account of a summer spent in the country, did not sell as well as its predecessor.
The next time the name is mentioned is in the account of David's war, who made the Moabites tributary.
There is speculation that the lines of the three districts could be significantly redrawn in the next redistricting cycle after the 2010 Census, especially if Democrats gain control of the Virginia General Assembly, to account for rapid growth in the northern parts of the 5th and 6th districts and slower growth in the southern parts of the districts and population loss in much of the 9th.
Michael Gira announced on June 13, 2010, through the Young God Records page on Facebook and his personal Facebook account, that the next Swans album would be titled My Father Will Guide Me Up a Rope to the Sky.
A legendary account, placing the Báthorys ' origin in the year 900 ( preceding the advent of the Gutkeled clan ), related how a god-fearing warrior called Vitus ( a namesake of a member of the first generation of the Gutkeled clan ) set out to fight a dragon, which loomed in the swamps next to the castle of Ecsed ( actually built only in the 14th century ) and harassed the countryside.
Taking into account that, theoretically, magical realism was born in the 20th century, connecting it to postmodernism is a logical next step.
According to Ludwig von Wolzogen ( in an account dripping with sarcasm ), the commander was found a half-hour away on the road to Moscow, encamped with an entourage of young nobles and grandly pronouncing he would drive Napoleon off the next day.
When the Ramsay MacDonald Government decided not to finance the next attempt in 1931, Lucy, Lady Houston felt that Britain must on no account be left out of this contest.
These announcers may be specialized according to sport ; for instance, an horse race announcer provides a rapid-fire second-by-second account of the race ( as well as introducing the entries before the race ), while a baseball announcer may simply introduce the next batter or recap the previous half-inning.
The next day, Catalano, who drove the automobile with Rudnick's body, corroborated Reles ' account of the murder.
He spent the next three years writing his account of the trip, The Naturalist on the River Amazons, widely regarded as one of the finest reports of natural history travels.
His next literary venture was an account of his travels in Italy, which was followed by an opera libretto titled Rosamund.

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