It is a parable about a soldier who trades his fiddle to the devil for a book that predicts the future of the economy.

Early travelers in Asia sometimes describe a kind of military amok, in which soldiers facing apparently inevitable defeat suddenly burst into a frenzy of violence which so startled their enemies that it either delivered victory or at least ensured what the soldier in that culture considered an honourable death.

As a soldier committing his life ( voluntarily, at least in theory ) to the greater cause of Rome's victory, he was not expected to survive defeat.

A British soldier encapsulated the soldiers ' view of the defeat:

However, that may be, he did well as a soldier to trust to the dash and even rashness that had gained Arcot and triumphed at Calcutta since retreat, or even delay, might have resulted in defeat.

Xander is turned into a soldier in the episode " Halloween ", and retains extensive military knowledge and training thereafter ; in " Innocence ", this knowledge proves essential to helping Buffy defeat a demon known as The Judge who had been believed practically invincible.

In this proclamation he made clear that he arrived as the Habsburg-Lotharingia dynasty's soldier and his aim was to defeat the nascent revolution.

He was an experienced soldier, and it was an opportunity to reassert his dynasty's reputation after defeat at home.

Magomayev's father, Mahammad Magomayev, who died two days prior to the defeat of Nazi Germany in World War II while serving as a soldier in the Soviet Army, was a gifted scenic designer ; and his mother, Aishet Kinzhalova, was an actress.

The VF-1 valkyrie in battroid mode is also much stronger than the average Zentradi soldier and is able to defeat them in unarmed combat with ease.

Originally a soldier in the service of the Ziyārīds of Ṭabaristān, ‘ Alī was able to recruit an army to defeat a Turkish general from Baghdad named Yaqut in 934.

If the player fails to defeat the opponent before a timer expires, that soldier is assumed missing in action and is no longer available.

Depending on the difficulty, the number of punches required to defeat an enemy soldier differs and in the higher difficulty levels, the enemy soldiers will be knocked unconscious for a while after the first series of punches instead of simply being defeated.

After his disastrous defeat at Glenmaquin near Raphoe in County Donegal, his kinsman, Owen Roe O ' Neill, a professional soldier, arrived from the Spanish Netherlands and was made general of the Confederate's Ulster army.

It centres around Harima, a young Korean soldier from the Baekje Kingdom whose head is replaced with that of a wolf by Tang Dynasty soldiers following the defeat of the joint Baekje-Yamato force at the Battle of Baekgang.

The Brigade made a gallant uphill charge to defeat a superior force of onrushing Russian cavalry, an amazing instance of the triumph of the individual skill of the Victorian British soldier, as well as of British discipline and unit cohesion.

Khaldei's most famous photo was of a Soviet Red Army soldier raising a flag above the German Reichstag at the end of World War II: the historic defeat of Nazi Germany in a war that cost the Soviet Union twenty millions lives ; the magazine Ogonjok published the photograph on 13 May 1945.

* Quintus Caecilius Metellus Pius, Roman Consul and soldier, who fought under Sulla, and later was largely responsible for Quintus Sertorius's defeat in Spain, despite sharing the victory with Gnaeus Pompeius Magnus.

Meanwhile, Zacek and his older brother Nazul arrived at the Planet of Eternity, but as they reached the sacred serpent's chamber located in the depths of Mount Meru, a metnalian soldier who followed them by Asura's command assaulted the two princes ( Asura knew of the prophecy of the Kundalini that would defeat him ) and managed to grab Nazul and take him to his ship before he could go into the serpent's resting place.

Still quite young, like his counterpart Don Juan, he was more of a land soldier than a naval tactician, and his failure to keep his lines together and keep his individual squadrons from charging like cavalry units in a land battle allowed the Christian forces to penetrate his battle line in various places and to surround and defeat the isolated ships.

A soldier who later served under Fannin complained that Fannin's " former experience in fighting Mexicans Concepción had led him to neglect to take such precautionary measures as were requisite ", which may have contributed to his defeat at the Battle of Coleto in March 1836.

Though seldom used in today's context, it has been alleged that Pakistan Military believed in the concept of martial races and they thus thought that they would easily defeat India in a war, especially prior to the Second Kashmir War Based on this belief in the martial supremacy, it was popularly hyped that one Pakistani soldier was equal to four to ten Hindus / Indian soldiers, and thus numerical superiority of the foe could be overcome.

Kipling's narrator, an infantry soldier, speaks in admiring terms of the " Fuzzy-Wuzzies ", praising their bravery which, although insufficient to defeat the British, did at least enable them to boast of having " broken the square "— an achievement which few other British foes could claim.

He is portrayed latterly as a very capable but fierce and cruel soldier and commander, whose brilliance wins battles in Gaul, but whose brutality went some way towards alienating Caesar's Gallic allies and thus causing the battles in the first place.

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.

Unfortunately although a good governor, Spinther was not a good soldier, and soon found himself trapped and besieged by Caesar's troops in Corfinium where he was forced to surrender.

* 2007 – Suspects are arrested in Birmingham in the UK, accused of plotting the kidnap, holding and eventual beheading of a serving Muslim British soldier in Iraq.

This rugged soldier – emperor iconic archetype was adopted by most of the following emperors who depended on the support of the military to rule, like his eventual successor Maximinus Thrax.

He was a British soldier and explorer in Asia and was able to demonstrate that the Suez Canal was feasible, bringing about its eventual construction.

* Edward Sexby ( 1616 – 1658 ); English Puritan, soldier and Leveller ; he turned against Cromwell and plotted his assassination

The public scandal after the assassination of the soldier Omar Carrasco forced Menem to end compulsory military conscription.

President Ramos-Horta was critically injured in an assassination attempt on February 11, 2008, in a failed coup apparently perpetrated by Alfredo Reinado, a renegade soldier who died in the attack.

A soldier at the Serbian court, he helped to overthrow the House of Obrenović, with the assassination of King Aleksandar Obrenović.

Dragutin Dimitrijević ( Serbian Cyrillic: Драгутин Димитријевић ; also known as Apis ( Апис ); August 17, 1876, Belgrade – June 11, 24, or 27, 1917 ) was a Serbian soldier and leader of the Black Hand group implicated with assassination of Franz Ferdinand, Archduke of Austria in 1914.

Abu-Lu ' lu ' ah / Pirouz Nahāvandi, the Persian soldier who was enslaved by the Islamic conquerors and eventually assassinated the caliph Umar al-Khattab in AH 23 ( 643 / 4 CE ), reportedly fled to Kashan after the assassination and lived there some years before being finally caught and executed.

It is believed today, however ( after some research not yet finished ), that the moved remains were not really Rodríguez's, but those of an older unknown soldier wearing the Husares de la Muerte uniform ( although at the time of his assassination, Rodríguez was not wearing his legendary uniform ), and that Rodríguez's body might still be buried in Til-Til's La Merced's Chapel.

Sophie tells Krusty that he met her mother when she served as a soldier in the Gulf War, spending the night with her after a USO show ; however, she dumped Krusty the next day after he ruined her attempted assassination of Saddam Hussein.

Notable instances include Hosokawa Gracia ordering a soldier to kill her and Tokugawa Hidetada ordering the assassination of Sanada Masayuki for causing his tardiness at Sekigahara.

Jozef Gabčík ( 8 April 1912 – 18 June 1942 ) was a Slovak soldier in the Czechoslovak army involved in Operation Anthropoid, the assassination of acting Reichsprotektor ( Reich-Protector ) of Bohemia and Moravia, SS-Obergruppenführer Reinhard Heydrich.

Sergeant Mike Donaldson, Congressional Medal of Honor soldier, was one of them.

It could reach key tactical points faster than infantry and destroy them or hold them as the case might be for the foot soldier.

Out of Saxony rode the Prince of Anhalt-Bernburg, one of the Czarina's cousins and a lieutenant general in her armies, a frank, sensitive, popular soldier whose kindnesses Littlepage would `` always recall with the sincerest gratitude ''.

To help him do so The Prince had conferred control of his land forces on a soldier who was different from him in almost every respect save one: both were eccentrics of the purest ray serene.

Despising luxuries of any sort for a soldier, he slept on a pile of hay with his cloak as blanket.

It was probably at this period that Littlepage got his first good look at the ordinary Russian soldier.

But the Maryland militia had likewise fled, all too typical of this type of soldier during the Revolution, an experience which gave Morgan little confidence in militia in general, as he watched other instances of their breaking in hot engagements.

Just as I know I would make a bad soldier even though I cannot sincerely call myself a pacifist, so too I would not be either a hangman by profession or, if I could avoid it, even a member of a hanging jury.

Former British Prime Minister Attlee says Eisenhower was not a `` great soldier ''.

As the civic temper rises, the more naive citizens begin to play soldier -- but the guns are real.

Every soldier in the army has, somewhere, relatives who are close to starvation.

Now, more than five years later, I cannot in any realistic sense be called a trained soldier.

Mr. Christiansen knows that a soldier will get the Distinguished Service Medal for conduct that would land him in prison for life or the electric chair as a civilian.

This is why he made such a magnificent soldier.

`` I am only a simple soldier.

What I mean is, he was a Pole and the greatest soldier in the Ulanys.

`` I'm still a soldier in a very small way, Styka ''.

In the corner was the soldier with the white flag.

He had hoped to be alone in the bombproof, but the soldier had followed him.

The soldier answered in a curious, muffled voice, his lips barely moving.

A soldier held the end of a frayed rope.

The addition of endurance training later, when the body is mature enough to benefit from it without danger of injury, provides that final quality that makes the top athlete, soldier or citizen.

later he flees in panic from the family table just as his theft is about to be discovered and is blocked at the front door by a soldier who accusingly holds out a pair of handcuffs which he has brought to Gargery's forge for mending.

Charles Thiot, a splendid Georgia soldier, differed from most of his comrades in the ranks in that he was the owner of a large plantation, well-educated, and nearly fifty years of age.

A Georgia soldier gave his wife the following description of the cause and consequence of diarrhoea: `` I have bin a little sick with diorah two or three days.