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.

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.

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.

A battle always has as its purpose the reaching of a mission goal by use of military force.

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.

It had been a big battle, and the Confederate forces had won.

Although it was at the Battle of The Little Horn, about which more words have been written than any other battle in American history, that the 7th Cavalry first made its mark in history, the regiment was ten years old by then.

This damage had been done in the battle of Vientiane, fought less than three months earlier when four successive governments had ruled here in three days ( December 9-11, 1960 ).

Apollo's role as the slayer of the Python led to his association with battle and victory ; hence it became the Roman custom for a paean to be sung by an army on the march and before entering into battle, when a fleet left the harbour, and also after a victory had been won.

* 1457 BC – Likely date of the Battle of Megiddo between Thutmose III and a large Canaanite coalition under the King of Kadesh, the first battle to have been recorded in what is accepted as relatively reliable detail.

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.

That same year, he was murdered at Cadiz while fleeing from a battle in which he had been deserted by the very supporters which had brought him into power.

Abd-ar-Rahman IV was murdered the same year he was proclaimed at Cadiz, in flight from a battle in which he had been deserted by his supporters.

Count Jean d ' Arco had been sent with 12, 000 men from the Franco-Bavarian camp to hold the town and grassy hill, but after a ferocious and bloody battle, inflicting enormous casualties on both sides, Schellenberg finally succumbed, forcing Donauwörth to surrender shortly afterwards.

At a later point, having been deserted by God on the eve of battle, Saul consults a medium at Endor, only to be condemned for doing so by Samuel's ghost, and told he and his sons will be killed.

Both novels had been seen as favourites to win leading up to the prize and the dramatic " literary battle " between two senior authors made front page news.

English history of the battle disputes this, as some claim that the narrow bodkin point arrows they used have been proven capable of penetrating most plate armour of that time period.

Nelson, who had been wounded in the battle, was proclaimed a hero across Europe and was subsequently made Baron Nelson.

During the delay caused by this detour, two other British ships joined the battle: Theseus, which had been disguised as a first-rate ship, followed Foley's track across Guerrier < nowiki >'</ nowiki > s bow.

The origin of this vessel, an abandoned and burning ship's boat laden with highly flammable material, is uncertain but it may have been launched from Guerrier as the battle began.

These featured a battle scene, " that might well have impressed itself in the mind of the young Uccello ", and thus influenced The Battle of San Romano.

Hornblower is featured as living off his winnings from playing whist while a half-pay Lieutenant, and famously playing whist with subordinate officers before a battle.

On the battle screen, the enemy appears on the opposite side of the characters ; each battle uses the familiar Active Time Battle system that was first featured in Final Fantasy IV.

Final Fantasy IX deviates from the style of customizable characters featured in the last two titles by reviving the character class concept, which designates a character to a certain role in battle.

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 unit was assigned to the reactivated 101st Airborne Division and subsequently inactivated as a combat team in 1956 as part of the division's reorganization into the Pentomic structure, which featured battle groups in place of regiments and battalions.

The battle was also featured by Mad Doc Software in its 2006 strategy game Empire Earth II: The Art of Supremacy as one of its " turning point " battle modes.

During the initial phases of its development, it featured super deformed characters and monsters in battle, but was later changed to a style more consistent with the original series.

In 2000, the radio program This American Life featured a story about the battle to disband the town in the face of development by Ross Perot, Jr ..

The episode aired on January 15, 2009 and featured the three Legionnaires, starting with a brief battle with the Persuader ( portrayed by Fraser Aitcheson ), and remaining through the episode to assist Clark in his fight against Brainiac.

The Claremont Colleges are featured in the zombie horror novel World War Z as the setting of a documentary featuring a battle between 300 students of the colleges and a horde of 10, 000 infected Californians.

A music video for the first film's opening theme " Metamorphoze " featured Gackt singing inside a mobile suit cockpit during battle.

She performed a duet with Mindy Jostyn on the song " Time, Be On My Side ", featured on Jostyn's 1995 album Five Miles From Hope about her recent battle with colon cancer.

Coins of Tarentum after this battle also featured elephants.

The game also featured an end-game option called the " Apocalypse spell ," where one player or the other could call for a final battle to determine the outcome of the game.

However, in the final version, the climactic battle featured a cyclops versus a dragon.

However, instead of the Count's regular head, this doll's head featured Al Franken on one side and Norm Coleman on the other, and was called " Count von Re-Count "— referring to the extraordinarily prolonged recount and legal battle surrounding the 2008 U. S. Senate election between the two men.

* In the 2008 historical film Red Cliff, Guan Yu is played by Basen Zhabu and is featured primarily in the Battle of Changban and later in a semi-fictional land battle near Red Cliff, which preceded the major naval battle.

The battle is featured as a playable stage in Koei's video game series Dynasty Warriors as one of the highlights of Cao Cao's story mode.

In folklore, a piru is often featured as a nasty spirit of the forest with which a wise-aleck either wins or loses a battle of wits, giving or receiving a forfeit in return.

In addition, this battle also featured appearances by XXXG-01W Wing Gundam from Gundam Wing ( the first on-screen appearance of the Wing Gundam as Gundam Wing did not air until after G Gundam was completed ) which is seen twice, and the title robots Daitarn 3 and Zambot 3.

The battle is featured as a playable stage in Koei's video game series Dynasty Warriors, in which it is known as the " Battle of Yi Ling ".