Description Details
...volunteers bring you 9 different recordings of The Siege of Belgrade by Alaric Alexander Watts. This was the weekly poetry project for the week of May 25th, 2008....

Excerpt Details
.... Ward was the responsible central figure of the hastily gathered, undisciplined, fluctuating army of militiamen which, then and there, commenced the siege of Boston — but he was without authority to enlist the men, pay them or hold them, except by the strength of the common-cause spirit and the force of his own personality and that of other military and civilian leaders....

Description Details
...riseyde by Geoffrey Chaucer which re-tells in Middle English the tragic story of the lovers Troilus and Criseyde set against a backdrop of war in the Siege of Troy....

Table of Contents Details
... Book VI The Visit to the Underworld Book VII War in Latium Book VIII The Site of Rome Book IX The Siege Book X The Relief and Battle Book XI Councils of War Book XII The Death of Turnus...

Table of Contents Details
...ings for foreign contracts Now back to UN Chapter 18 What lends to the bravery of the English citizens? Leadership Chapter 19 English under siege The alien impact on English The English under siege Chapter 20 Computers and their striking affect on the feudal functioning Computer and its finer affects Chapter 21 A case study Enron Chapter 22 A slig...

Excerpt Details
...ur and burning flesh took my nose hostage but for some reason, I stood and watched the horror with my feet grounded defensively. The invaders took siege of the bush holding their torches as they continued to set it ablaze. I went round and saw people being butchered by the invaders, anyone that jumped out of the burning bush was instantly killed. The sight was awful and...

Description Details
...The Iliad is an epic poem in dactylic hexameters, traditionally attributed to Homer. Set in the Trojan War, the ten-year siege of Ilium, by a coalition of Greek States, it tells of the battles and events during the weeks of a quarrel between King Agamemnon and the warrior Achilles. Although the story covers only a few weeks in the final year of...

Excerpt Details
...ahad was gotten or born, there came in an hermit unto King Arthur upon Whitsunday, as the knights sat at the Table Round. And when the hermit saw the Siege Perilous, he asked the king and all the knights why that siege was void. Sir Arthur and all the knights answered:...

Full Text Search Details
...sunday, as the knights sat at the Table Round. And when the hermit saw the Siege Perilous, he asked the king and all the knights why that siege was vo... ...ir Arthur and all the knights answered: There shall never none sit in that siege but one, but if he be destroyed. Then said the hermit: Wot ye what is... ...gotten, and this same year he shall be gotten that shall sit there in that Siege 4 Thomas Malory Perilous, and he shall win the Sangreal. When this h... ... Wit you well, Sir Bors, that this child is Galahad, that shall sit in the Siege Perilous, and achieve the Sangreal, and he shall be much better than ...

Description Details
...ts (October 31, 1835). From a letter signed by Jose Maria Tornel, Miguel Barragan's secretary of war. Quoted in General Miguel A. Santhez Lamego, The Siege and Taking of the Alamo, trans. Consuelo Velasco (Santa Fe: The Press of The Territorian, 1968), pp. 14-15- From the Historical Archives of the Secretary of National Defense, File XI/481.3/1145....

Description Details
This is the history of Pontiac's Conspiracy, 1763-1765. It includes the siege of Detroit and his ultimate defeat. Summary by Esther.

Table of Contents Details
...n Is Our Soul's Left Hand...) To the Countess of Bedford (You Have Refin'd Me...) To Sir Edward Herbert, Now Lord Herbert of Cherbury, Being at the Siege of Julyers To the Countess of Bedford (T'have Written Then, When You Writ...) To the Countess of Bedford On New-Years Day To the Countess of Huntingdon (Man to God's Image; Eve...) To M(r.) I(zaak) W(alton) To M. T...

Full Text Search Details
...uing months, the news of the spread of the revolt - the occupation of Delhi by the mutineers; the siege of the Residency in Lucknow where many of th... ...ept the worst reports from her. The Residency at Lucknow was relieved by Henry Havelock after a siege of eighty-eight days, and Gavin brought the g... ...ll, gentlemen and ladies,’ said Sir James. To be forewarned is to be forearmed and we know that a siege of the fort is imminent. We will resist unti... ...e will resist until we are relieved. Fortunately, the Emperor Akbar built this fort to withstand siege and its walls are almost impregnable. On one ... ...ead, this moment would be theirs to treasure. The next day was hectic; the fort was preparing for siege. The ramparts were thronged with soldiers, c... ...use of the low rainfall that summer, it was not as full as they would have wished, but before the siege started, the soldiers had taken mules to the... ... obvious that Prince Ali had succeeded in overthrowing his father and brother. The morning saw a siege train of heavy artillery being hauled by pala... ...nes, so it is anyone’s guess when the Punjabi relief force will arrive.’ Now, after two weeks of siege, rationing was introduced, one main meal a d... ...ents to the skin, soon brought the little patients back to health. It was the fourth week of the siege when the reason for the apparent inaction of...

Full Text Search Details
...gatory phrase used to describe the April 1994 marketing campaign of the Canter and Siegel law firm. They posted an offer to every news group thus p... ...h century. Solon (638-559 BC) used a strong purgative, the herb hellebore, in the siege of Krissa. During the 6th century BC, the Assyrians poison... ...ripping bodies of plague victims as readymade "dirty bombs". In 1346, during its siege of Kaffa (present day Feodosia in Crimea), the Tartar army...

Full Text Search Details
... man. “I was actually just passing by when I saw that the place was under siege. I’m always looking for a good reason to waste some Grand Army goons... ...when she got of the exit to see that the Seekers had already begun to lay siege to the mall. From the air and land they were pressing the rebels. Sh... ... of their scouts was spoted by a Seeker S&D squad. Now the base was under siege. The Seekers who had discovered them wasted no time report- ing what ... ...Those fools can’t remain down there forever.” “No, but we don’t need this siege to drag out. I am handling this personally. It’s time to test the ho... ...ics store from the high- way, but he didn’t like what he saw. It was under siege by a Seeker S&D squad. “Dammit, what the hell is this!?” Vincent cu...

Full Text Search Details
...with the heavily armored phalanx taking up the front, the cannoneers behind them, and the siege engines taking up the rear. Alaj knew the element o... ...ments affixed to the gates. Their weapons were drawn and ready to fire. Beyond the gates, siege weapons rolled out, coming into full view of the ad- ... ...ineries were instantly obliterated. Splinters of wood and rock flew in every direction. “Siege engines, fire!” Alaj ordered. The King’s army return... ...pults. “Phalanx, rush the gate, use the battering ram!” Traeus called out. “Target their siege engines with our catapults. Cannoneers, give the phal...

Full Text Search Details
...rrorist bombing of the Ealing school coach, and who was involved in the fire and siege 209 at Brent Valley General Hospital, has now himself be...

Full Text Search Details
... with their myriad papers. America (specifically New York City) was under siege. The boys gestured the "wei" to him. He saw prayerful hands in ...

Full Text Search Details
... arms against him, go and make war upon his very court, surround and lay formal siege to that very court: “and compass the camp of the saints about.”...

Excerpt Details
...and Brabant--was a part of Holland; and it obtained its own independence by a revolution. In that revolution the most important military step was the siege of Antwerp, which was defended on the part of the Dutch by General Chasse, with the utmost gallantry, but nevertheless ineffectually....

Full Text Search Details
... revolution. In that revo- lution the most important military step was the siege of Antwerp, which was defended on the part of the Dutch by General Ch... ...se, with the utmost gallantry, but neverthe- less ineffectually. After the siege Antwerp became quite a show place; and among the visitors who flocked... ...walls of Antwerp. Let the curious in these matters read the horrors of the siege of Troy, or the history of Jerusalem taken by Titus. The one may be f... ...ed to the guide as he detailed to us, in already accustomed words, how the siege had gone. Then we got into the private apartments of the general, and... ...inner bolt, my friend was able to protect himself. “There shall be another siege, at any rate as stout as the last, before I surrender,” said he. As t...