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According to his figures, six times as many people have died from the inflictions of people working for governments than have died in battle.
In Norse mythology, Ragnarök (, or ), typically spelled Ragnarǫk in the handwritten scripts, is a series of future events, including a great battle foretold to ultimately result in the death of a number of major figures ( including the gods Odin, Thor, Týr, Freyr, Heimdallr, and Loki ), the occurrence of various natural disasters, and the subsequent submersion of the world in water.
The Battle of Stalingrad saw perhaps the greatest casualty figures of any single battle in the history of warfare ( estimates are between 1, 250, 000 and 1, 798, 619 ).
During the 1976 election campaign, the SPD / FDP coalition was able to win the battle of statistics, whether the figures related to employee ’ s incomes, strikes, unemployment, growth, or public sector debts.
In 2007 Jack Sheldon concluded that casualty figures were irrelevant because the German army could not afford heavy losses or lose the initiative by being compelled to fight another defensive battle on ground of the Allies ' choosing.
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.
Paul the Deacon reported correctly in his Historia Langobardorum ( written around the year 785 ) that the Liber pontificalis mentioned these casualty figures in relation to Odo's victory at Toulouse ( though he claimed that Charles Martel fought in the battle alongside Odo ), but later writers, probably " influenced by the Continuations of Fredegar, attributed the Saracen casualties solely to Charles Martel, and the battle in which they fell became unequivocally that of Poitiers.
There are nude figures, some of corpses from battle, others of a ribald nature.
It decreased in popularity in Gothic art, but revived in the larger works of the Renaissance, when artists took inspiration for their " Massacres " from Roman reliefs of the battle of the Lapiths and Centaurs to the extent that they showed the figures heroically nude.
The casualty figures of the battle were quite low for a battle of such a scale — of the 50, 000 or so participants, about 2, 000 died.
In Norse mythology, a valkyrie ( from Old Norse valkyrja " chooser of the slain ") is one of a host of female figures who decide who dies and lives in battle.
In it, players battle creatures based on a line of Todd McFarlane's action figures including classic movie monsters such as Frankenstein's monster and Dracula.
" Apart from these goddesses of war, there were other Amazonian figures who led armies into battle.
Yet the cost was high: the allied casualty figures were approximately double that of the enemy ( sources vary ), leading Marlborough to admit – " The French have defended themselves better in this action than in any battle I've seen.
This battle was once famous, since it also figures in Faroese ballads, in Orvar-Odd's saga and in Hervarar saga.
He figures in a Romantic depiction of the battle of Montgisard by Charles-Philippe Larivière in the Salles des Croisades at Versailles.
Since Pigeard asserts that these casualties occurred during the pursuit, it is possible that these figures do not take into account the casualties incurred during the initial actions of this battle ( one battalion of Zieten's brigade captured, plus the 2, 000 prisoners taken during Grouchy's and Nansouty's joint action against Zieten ).
Recreation with model figures of the battle, displayed at the: es: Museo de Armería de Álava | Armory Museum ( Museo de Armería ) in Vitoria-Gasteiz.
It is lavishly decorated with engraved and embossed figures, indicating that it was probably used for displays or cavalry tournaments, though it may well have been intended to be worn in battle as well.

battle and Shakespeare's
Three hundred gladiators appeared in an arena scene not featured in Shakespeare's play ; a similar number of girls danced as Caesar's captives ; a total of three thousand soldiers took part in the battle sequences.
The character of Exeter in Shakespeare's play Henry V is based on Beaufort, although Beaufort was not actually created Duke of Exeter until after the battle of Agincourt.
The battle itself and many of the key people involved appear in Shakespeare's Henry IV, Part 1.
The final battle above Khitomer contains seven references to five of Shakespeare's plays.
In his last speech as Secretary of Defense, the day before he left office, Johnson made an oblique, yet ironic reference to William Shakespeare's MacBeth: " When the hurly burly's done and the battle is won, I trust the historian will find my record of performance creditable, my services honest and faithful commensurate with the trust that was placed in me and in the best interests of peace and our national defense.
It is the second play in Shakespeare's tetralogy dealing with the successive reigns of Richard II, Henry IV ( two plays ), and Henry V. Henry IV, Part 1 depicts a span of history that begins with Hotspur's battle at Homildon against the Douglas late in 1402 and ends with the defeat of the rebels at Shrewsbury in the middle of 1403.
This battle is referred to at the beginning of William Shakespeare's play Henry IV, Part 1 – of which Hotspur is the dashing hero.
Shaara explained that he was aiming to produce an epic military study modeled after William Shakespeare's Henry V. His choice for a specific subject was inspired by a family vacation that Shaara took to the site of the battle in 1966.
Shenton is near Bosworth Field, ( the location of the final battle of the Wars of the Roses immortalised in Shakespeare's Richard III ), giving the railway its name.
In fact, as the director of the Duke's Company, Davenant was legally obliged to reform and modernize Shakespeare's plays before performing them, an ad hoc ruling by the Lord Chamberlain in the battle for performance rights which " sheds an interesting light on the many twentieth-century denunciations of Davenant for his adaptations " ( Hume, p. 20 ).

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* 46 BC – Julius Caesar defeats Caecilius Metellus Scipio and Marcus Porcius Cato ( Cato the Younger ) in the battle of Thapsus.
Around 60 BC, a group of Boians joined the Helvetians ' ill-fated attempt to conquer land in western Gaul and were defeated by Julius Caesar, along with their allies, in the battle of Bibracte.
Ariovistus of the Suebi is reported to have done the same thing in his battle against Julius Caesar.
By the time of Julius Caesar, a group of Germans led by the Suebian chieftain Ariovistus were expanding into Gaul, until stopped by Caesar at the battle of Vosges.
Allectus ' brief reign was brought to an end when Julius Asclepiodotus landed near Southampton and defeated him in a land battle.
Julius Caesar and Divico parley after the battle at the Saône.
** September 26 – Julius Caesar dedicates a temple to his mythical ancestor Venus Genetrix in fulfillment of a vow he made at the battle of Pharsalus.
The Battle of Philippi was the final battle in the Wars of the Second Triumvirate between the forces of Mark Antony and Octavian ( of the Second Triumvirate ) and the forces of Julius Caesar's assassins Marcus Junius Brutus and Gaius Cassius Longinus in 42 BC, at Philippi in Macedonia.
Both MacBain ( 1982 ) and Julius Pokorny ( 1959: 203 ) correlate the element with Norse böð, genitive boðvar, ‘ war ,’ and Anglo-Saxon beadu, genitive beadwe,battle ,’ suggesting that the word originally denoted ‘ battle ’ or ‘ strife .’ Julius Pokorny ( 1959: 203 ) presents the element as an extended form of the Proto-Indo-European root * bhedh-‘ pierce, dig .’ To this root Pokorny also links the Sanskrit bádhate, ‘ oppress ,’ and the Lithuanian bádas, ‘ famine ’.
* 54 BC Brentford is a likely site of a battle recorded by Julius Cæsar between Julius Cæsar and local king, Cassivellaunus.
John Julius Norwich, the historian known for his works on Venice and on Byzantium, said of the battle of Chalons:
His son Quintus Hortensius, a friend of the poet Catullus, was granted the governorship of Macedonia in 44 by Julius Caesar, before switching allegiance to Brutus and perishing after the debacle of the battle of Philippi in 42 BC.
For instance, one is shown being carried by an armored knight or soldier in the Caesar Tapestries in the Historical Museum of Bern, depicting Julius Caesar's battle against the Germanic leader Ariovistus.
Lee, Godfrey S. The battle of the scholars: the debate between Sir Isaac Isaacs and Julius Stone over Zionism during World War 2.
After a heavy defeat against king Pharnaces II of Pontus near Nicopolis, the survivor soldiers of Deiotarius army formed a single legion, which marched besides Julius Caesar during his victorious campaign against Pontus, and fought with him in the battle of Zela ( 47 BC ).
* Julius Briganticus, a nephew of Civilis, who fought under Cerealis in Germania, and fell in battle in AD 71.
He commanded the " Republican " army at Thapsus, and was killed in battle against Julius Caesar's legions.

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