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Baron de Jomini, Summary of the Art of War, or a New Analytical Compend of the Principle Combinations of Strategy, of Grand Tactics and of Military Policy. (ed. Major O. F. Winship , Assistant Adjutant General , U. S. A., Lieut. E. E. McLean , 1st Infantry, U. S. A.), Sketch of the principal maritime expeditions. (search)
of four hundred vessels, three hundred of which were decked. He fought the three Roman generals who commanded in Cappadocia, invaded all Asia Minor, caused eighty thousand Roman subjects to be massacred, and even sent a powerful army to Greece. Sylla descended with a reinforcement of twenty-five thousand Romans, and retook Athens; but Mithradates sent successively two great armies by the Bosphorus or by the Dardanelles; the first, of a hundred thousand men, was destroyed at Chaeronea; the second, of eighty thousand, had the same fate at Oorchomenus. At the same time, Lucullus assembled all the maritime forces of the cities of Asia Minor, those of the isles, and especially of the Rhodians, and came to take the army of Sylla at Cestas, for conducting it into Asia; Mithradates frightened, made peace. In the second war, made by Muraena, and in the third conducted by Lucullus, there were no more descents operated. Mithradates, pushed by degrees as far as Colchis, and no longer hold
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Poetry and Incidents., Volume 5. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 148 (search)
agle the slightest salam-- Should fall flat to adore an American Ram? There have always been Rams! Father Adam, we know, Found some Rams in his garden a long time ago: In the raising of Rams Abel took much delight; And a Ram was concerned in the very first fight-- And the first Ram afloat, we may further remark, Was the Ram which old Noah took into the Ark! Then, it seems, there were Rams which were tied up in stalls, Driven out to do battle by butting down walls-- Alexander, Marcellus, and Sylla, we find, Had a great many Rams of this desperate kind, And when Titus encamped 'mid Jerusalem's palms, It is said that the Hebrews saw nothing but Rams! After these there came Rams not inclining to fights-- Rams resembling good Joshua's Gibeonites, Which were “drawers of water” --Hydraulic Rams-- Quite domestic, and commonly found with their dams! May such Rams still continue to thrive and increase With the limitless Ram-ifications of peace! Thus, we Ram-ble along through the cycles of Time
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Liberty cap. (search)
lose-fitting cap and had it stamped on their coins. The Romans took the fashion of wearing caps from the Phrygians, but they were only worn by freedmen. When a slave was set free, a red cap called the pileus was put on his head, and this was a token of his manumission. When Saturnius took the capitol in 263, he had a cap set up on the top of a spear as a promise of liberty to all slaves who would join him. Marius used the same expedient to incite the slaves to take arms with him against Sylla. When Caesar was murdered, the conspirators carried a cap on a spear, as a token of the liberty of Rome, and a medal was struck with the same device on this occasion, which is still extant. The statue of the Goddess of Libertyon the Aventine Hill carried in her hand a cap as an emblem of freedom. In England the same symbol was adopted, and Britannia was pictured carrying the cap on a spear. It was first used in the United States as one of the devices on the flag of the Philadelphia Light
The Daily Dispatch: March 26, 1861., [Electronic resource], article 6 (search)
tions, of which we read in the biographies of the most renowned Generals were so. We have already noticed the campaigns of Alexander and Hannibal. Let us now notice those of Julius Caesar. Caesar commenced his military career at a more advanced period of life than either of the a forenamed Generals. Alexander was but twenty-two when he invaded Asia; Hannibal but twenty-seven where. he invaded Italy. But Caesar, somehow or other, had a bad name among those who bestowed honors at Rome, Sylla had said of him, when a boy, or was reported to have said of him, which was just as bad, " There is many a Marciss in that boy " Give a dog a bad name, and it is as well to hang him, Caesar seems to have been suspected, at a very early period of his life, of a design to overthrow the liberties-- such as they were — of his country ; and, consequently, every effort was made by the aristocratic party, to prevent him from getting the means of obtaining that end. It is painful to read of his earl
The Daily Dispatch: April 18, 1862., [Electronic resource], Late from the North. (search)
General Beauregard The Dictator Sylla, the most fortunates man of whom we have any account, had the same confidence in his good luck, that Napoleon is said to have had in his star. He created a Temple to Fortune, and when praised for his silents, always replied that he had rather be praised for his fortune. In the same spirit, a French minister (we believe it was Cardinal Massrin) always asked, when a General was recommended for any enterprise, "est " "is he fortunate?" There is, in fact, in the mind of every man, a superstition, not always avowed, which inclines to a belief in luck. Some men are born to fortune, and some have fortune thrust upon them. Gen. Beauregard, seems to be one of these fortunate individuals. He is always successful. Everything he undertakes seems to prosper. Everything indicates his claim to be one of those happy persons whose prosperity continues so long, and is so uninterrupted, that they come at last to be considered "Men of Destiny." Where
The Daily Dispatch: October 5, 1863., [Electronic resource], Runaway--$100 reward. (search)
Union. The reason he assigns for this hold movement is, that the Constitution requires all the States to vote, and that in the present condition of the country it is impossible to comply with the requirement. Thus Lincoln is President for life, with powers fully as absolute as those of Alexander H. or Napoleon III. The next step will be to make the office hereditary in his family, after which he may assume the imperial crown as soon as he may think proper. What luck for a rail-splitter. Sylla. Cæsar. Cromwell, and Napoleon, were accounted lucky men in their day, but their good fortune was sheer adversity compared to that of old Abe. They were all great men, and won their way to empire with their swords; but the most abject of Lincoln's sycophants — even the New York Herald itself — never called Lincoln a great man except in derision. He slips into the throne as easily and as gently as if he had been born in the purple. He steals into greatness as he stole into Washington upon
The Daily Dispatch: December 24, 1863., [Electronic resource], article 8 (search)
"If you are a great General," said Sylla to Marius, "come and fight me. " "If you are a great General," was the quiet answer, "make me come and fight you." The Mayor of Mobile has closed the whiskey mille of that city.
The Daily Dispatch: December 21, 1865., [Electronic resource], Advertisements. (search)
t President, should he live long enough, as there is every hope that he will, and as his good fortune, thus far, indicates that he will. We believe in fortune almost to the point of superstition, and General Grant is the most fortunate man since Sylla. It was Mazarin, we believe, (or was it Richelieu?) who always inquired of a general whom he was about to employ, "Is he fortunate?" And Sylla prided himself more upon his uninterrupted good fortune than upon his genius. Therefore we have high aSylla prided himself more upon his uninterrupted good fortune than upon his genius. Therefore we have high authority for our faith. General Grant, then, will live, and he will be President. He has already expressed himself favorable to the reconstruction of the Union, and from that circumstance we deduce most favorable omens. He will reduce everything to order, according to his military instinct. He will seek to make the country as strong as it is possible to render it, and he knows that it cannot be made strong by fostering sectional prejudices and destroying the prosperity of the most productiv