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Soldiers, forty centuries are looking down upon you from these pyramids.
Launches usually moved into the armies together,
Mangonels and trebuchets and rolling rams mounted
The redundant locks, robustious to no purpose, clustering down
vast monument of strength.
And kitchens and roust out everyone you find. Malo, do the same with the maester's tower and the armory. Ser Brendel, the stables, sept, and barracks. Bring them out into the yard, and try not to kill anyone
Sieges weathered, fight together, friends forever.
The countryside they
The mosques are our barracks, the domes our helmets, the minarets our bayonets and the faithful our soldiers ...
It seemed that rebellion must have an unassailable base, something guarded not merely from attack, but from the fear of it: such a base as we had in the Red Sea Parts, the desert, or in the minds of the men we converted to our creed.
Fort of the Dane,
Garrison of the Saxon,
Augustan capital
Of a Gaelic nation,
Appropriating all
The alien brought,
You give me time for thought.
with thick stone walls and high, slitted
These little towns were once the bold ramparts meant to shelter just such peace.
Who could not conquer with such troops as these?
On the fields of Media, of Arabia, and of Armenia, two great armies will assemble thrice. The host near the bank of the Araxes, they will fall in the land of the great Suleiman.
Castles in the air - they are so easy to take refuge in. And so easy to build too.
Look at the stars! Look, look up at the skies! Oh look at all the fire-folk sitting in the air! The bright boroughs, the circle-citadels there!
A fortified town is like a man cased in the heavy armor of antiquity, with a horse-load of broadswords and small arms slung to him, endeavoring to go about his business.
With battlements that on their restless fronts Bore stars.
The Cobalt Empire is the largest, known for their regal poise, intellectual prowess, and fierce commitment to one another. Each Cobalt is prideful and passionately unique but when push comes to shove.
They'll band together like an army of one.
trained army. The
From the exterior face of the wall towers must be projected, from which an approaching enemy may be annoyed by weapons, from the embrasures of those towers, right and left.
crowning the ramparts, drawing an uneven star shape around the entire model. She finds the opening atop the walls where four ceremonial cannons point to
Wait a while; there will come to you mounts, carrying lions in shining armor, battalions followed by battalions.
Civilization is an achievement not a gift; it is always besieged, must constantly be defended, and once lost, is immeasurably difficult to reclaim. We see the results of the assaults against freedom all around us.
For what fortress, what city, in the wide extent of the Roman empire, can hope to exist, secure and impregnable, if it is our pleasure that it should be erased from the earth?
Headquarters in the Saddle.
From a parapet on Bryn Shander's wall, Regis, Cassius, Agorwal, and Glensather watched in horror as the wicked force flowed down the stretch away from the two sacked cities, gaining on the fleeing people of Caer-Dineval.
Our towers aren't fair and lovely they're valor and honor that's what good is.
Great battles are won with artillery.
Empire and liberty.
All through history, a nation or a civilization's enduring glory is articulated by its mega constructions - the pyramids, the lofty cathedrals of the Christian world.
Frigates are the eyes of a fleet.
After a stronghold has been made of the bones, it is covered with flesh and blood, and there dwell in it old age and death, pride and deceit.
London, that great cesspool into which all the loungers and idlers of the Empire are irresistibly drained.
Southeastern Training Command over possibly
Towers, or float in lazy circles there like the nations of gulls
An elite confederacy of nerds. My peeps
Between a battle lost and a battle won, the distance is immense and there stand empires.
It is not the desire of new acquisitions, but the glory of conquests, that fires the soldier's breast; as indeed the town is seldom worth much, when it has suffered the devastations of a siege.
My lords! I'm not a castle. You don't have to storm me.
Overgrown military establishments, which, under any form of government, are inauspicious to liberty, and which are to be regarded as particularly hostile to Republican Liberty.
Where lies the final harbor, whence we unmoor no more?
Standing navies, as well as standing armies, serve to keep alive the spirit of war even in the meek heart of peace. In its very embers and smoulderings, they nourish that fatal fire, and half-pay officers, as the priests of Mars, yet guard the temple, though no god be there.
To many-towered Camelot
The seven Courts of Prythian, each ruled by a High Lord, all of them deadly in their own way. They are not merely powerful-they are Power.
One battle in twelve might be won by a brilliant military stratagem. The rest stood or fell by somebody's blunders. Only rarely, there came the feel of a great campaign evolved by a stylist: imaginative, comprehensive, irresistible.
Oh, bird of my soul, fly away now, For I possess a hundred fortified towers.
The keys of a fortress are always well worth the retirement of the garrison when it is resolved to yield only on those conditions. On this principle it is always wiser to grant an honorable capitulation to a garrison which has made a vigorous resistance than to risk an assault.
We admire the castles, because we admire the security!
Sanctuary, home of the Howlers and stragglers of the Were universe. (Damien)
When they remain in garrison, soldiers are maintained with fear and punishment; when they are then led to war, with hope and reward.
The city was under the rule of sourcery ... martial lore.
We shall defend every village, every town and every city. The vast mass of London itself, fought street by street, could easily devour an entire hostile army; and we would rather see London laid in ruins and ashes than that it should be tamely and abjectly enslaved.
General: I attempted to take Williamsport yesterday, but found too large a force of infantry and artillery. After a long fight, I withdrew to this place.
In the West today public places are no longer named after military victories. Our war memorials depict not proud commanders on horseback but weeping mothers, weary soldiers, or exhaustive lists of names of the dead.
raiding parties and pirate crews. This is in stark
Massive edifice, with its impenetrable walls, its monumental gate, and its red-coated guards, I began to have doubts. What
Drab Habitation of Whom? Tabernacle or Tomb - or Dome of Worm - or Porch of Gnome - or some Elf's Catacomb?
As the plans of march made by great generals in
You gotta love the names. They're so eager, earnest, and hopeful: Camp Prosperity, Camp Liberty, and Camp Victory are the names of just a few of the U.S. military bases in Baghdad.
A safe stronghold our God is still. A trusty shield and weapon.
Sill. Their horses and weapons were confiscated, and they were imprisoned. In a field just
Kabul is a walled city, which sounds romantic except the walls are pre-cast reinforced concrete blast barriers, 10 feet tall and 15 feet long and moved into place with cranes. The walls are topped with sandbags, and the sandbags are topped with guard posts from which gun barrels protrude.
Castles are Forrests of stones.
English dragoons
The peculiarity of prudery is to place all the more sentinels in proportion as the fortress is the less menaced.
Where the battle rages, there the loyalty of the soldier is proved.
The world." "Shiniest armor?
Walls wrought of time and stone and magic.
A set of huge marble busts stared smugly down from on high: great merchants and financiers of Styrian history, by the look of them. Criminals made heroes by colossal success.
We are the ring of steel around Lord Rahl himself... Two thousand strong. We fall to a man before harm gets a glance at Lord Rahl.
-Commander General Trimack
... not a fort at all, but a giant amulet, a city made from the magic in our hearts and the land itself.
There is a certain kind of small town that grows like a boil on the ass of every Army base in the world.
Instead of building castles against your enemies, build bridges for them to come to you!
Those far distant, storm-beaten ships, upon which the Grand Army never looked, stood between it and the dominion of the world.
Masterpieces of beauty, craftsmanship, and stability, all erected
Still like the Fortresses shakes?
Bring me men to match my mountains: Bring me men to match my plains: Men with empires in their purpose and new eras in their brains.
Conquest is the missionary of valor, and the hard impact of military virtues beats meanness out of the world.
The Greeks have snatched up their spears.
They have pointed the helms of their ships
Toward the bulwarks of Troy.
Building an empire ... one letter in front of the other.
We of Macedon for generations past have been trained in the hard school of danger and war
Here was a place where men and life and death had reached the lowest form of degradation. How could any reward in national progress even faintly justify the establishment and operation of
such a place?
Every monument of civilization is a monument of barbarism
Each one's no longer conscious
Of the high wall, or the rest:
Since the one enduring fortress,
Is the soldier's iron breast.
If you'd live unconquered,
Quickly arm, and fight the real foe:
Every wife an Amazon bred,
And every child a hero.
Merciless Mart, with its grand lobby. I glimpse the Abnegation
I built a fortress safe and strong to last a thousand years. A mighty stronghold that crumbles with a kiss
of the ancient cities of Greece and
Lanka's heart lay large barracks.
Better conquest never canst thou make than arm thy constant and thy nobler parts against giddy, loose suggestions.
fallen empires of kings, dictators, and fools who were passionate, certain, and wrong.
along with AC-130 Spectre gunships put scunion
and all who trained, slept, and shat within its walls.
Those comfortably padded lunatic asylums which are known, euphemistically, as the stately homes of England.
In battle, topography is fate.
Some say an army of horsemen, or infantry,
A fleet of ships is the fairest thing
On the face of the black earth, but I say
It's what one loves.
It is in Virginia and Georgia that the war now rages and where it will continue; for at these points - Richmond and Atlanta - the enemy's main strength is concentrated.
They were going to Dachau, to cencentrate.
Strongholds are developed from our habits (an act repeated so often that it becomes involuntary, there is no new decision of mind each time the act is performed). Strongholds can also be birthed from judgments that have been made when wounding occurs or when the basic needs of life are not met.
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The King of the Pleiades was well prepared for the last war. This, however, was not it." -Renegades of Ophelia's World