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  1. Ernle Bradford _ Thermopylae: The Battle for

    If the Greeks were-as they were indeed-a brilliant people, they were individualistic to a fault, and concerned with the fate and fortune of themselves first of all and, secondly, of their state.
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  2. Ernle Bradford _ Thermopylae: The Battle for

    Against three million men fought in this place Four thousand Peloponnesians, face to face.
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  3. Ernle Bradford _ The Great Siege, Malta 1565:

    In Malta, the Wars of Religion reached their climax. If both sides believed that they saw Paradise in the bright sky above them, they had a close and very intimate knowledge of Hell.
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  4. Ernle Bradford _ The Great Siege, Malta 1565:

    Remembering the treatment that had been accorded the Knights and soldiers of St. Elmo, the Maltese inhabitants of Senglea took no prisoners. Hence there arose the expression {used in Malta to this day} 'St. Elmo's pay' for any action in which no mercy is given.
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  5. Ernle Bradford _ Thermopylae: The Battle for

    The small Greek city-states could not understand what the organisation of a great empire and the movement of many thousands of men entailed: they themselves thought in terms of hundreds or at the most a few thousands. It would be well over a century until a Greece, unified under Alexander the Great, would have to tackle the problems of Empire.
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  6. Ernle Bradford _ Thermopylae: The Battle for

    Some thirty-six years after the death of Leonidas, King Agesilaus of Sparta, as Plutarch recounts, showed that the essential Spartan spirit, which distinguished her citizens from all others in Greece, still had not changed. At that time there was a war between a coalition led by Athens against Sparta and her allies. The latter had been complaining to Agesilaus that it was they who provided the bulk of the army. Agesilaus, accordingly, called a council meeting at which all the Spartan allies sat down on one side and the Spartans on the other. The king then told a herald to proclaim that all the potters among the allies and the Spartans should stand up. After this the herald called on the blacksmiths, the masons, and the carpenters to do likewise; and so he went on through all the crafts and trades. By the end of the herald's recital almost every single man among the allies had risen to his feet. But not a Spartan had moved. The laws of Lycurgus still obtained. The king laughed and turned to his allies, remarking: 'You see, my friends, how many more soldiers we send out than you do.' The whole Spartan attitude is contained in those words."
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