Patricia Taylor
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"The good man, though a slave, is free; the wicked, though he reigns, is a slave, and not the slave of a single man, but — what is worse — the slave of as many masters as he has vices." - Augustine of Hippo "I you allow, my lord, I can tell you the back story of Drama from my perspective of view." The teen bowed down facing the admiral and continued, stuttering in her words due to pure nervousness. "Oh?" Antonius raised his eye brows and gazed at this kid who looks like he is still in his teenage…-
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"La tierra es de quien la trabaja con sus manos." "The land belongs to those who work on it with their hands." - Emiliano Zapata Antonius changed that pleasant grinning expression from his face within a blink of an eye, replaced with a face of rage as his eyes bulged up in anger standing up from his stool. The two farmers before him totally did not predict that the lord can have such a violent reaction towards what they have said earlier on, they do not even know what they have said wrong in their words…
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"If you make a promise, you keep it, if you make a mistake, you apologize. And if you give someone a dream, you defend it to the end" - Tartaglia "Childe" Yuri charged down the slope like a raging Rhino, though he has never seen a Rhino in his life before. The bandits around the victims prepared themselves holding up their cleavers, butcher knives, hoes and pitch forks trying to scare these two random people away. Though Yuri totally did not give a damn about these ignoring the pathetic tries of these…
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"Our rural ancestors, with little blest, Patient of labour when the end was rest, Indulg'd the day that hous'd their annual grain, With feasts, and off'rings, and a thankful strain." - Second Book of Horace, Alexander Pope (Pope is his surname) The negotiation between the two sides went on smoothly, with the final deal being set in merely two days, a miracle for any sort of negotiations. With the peace treaty being signed it successfully marked the end of this winter campaign, the Ottomans promised to…
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It is indeed a pity that the fleet could only load their guns with solid metal hull penetrating shells instead of high explosive shells, due to the hull penetrating shell's higher velocity and effective firing distance making it the only kind of shell that can successfully reach the beach from this distance, with the current canon structure and firing powder they have on the ships. Or one did mention that he need to find an even more efficient kind of firing powder and also an improved forging technic,…
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"Солдатушки, бравы ребятушки, а кто ваши жёны? Наши жёны — пушки заряжёны, вот кто наши жёны." "Soldiers, you brave lads who are your wives? Our wives are our loaded cannons, that's what our wives are." - Soviet Army Song The Romans pulled out under the guidance of their battle instincts and the waving banners of Julian, reassembled and made a reverse passing by their Ottoman counterparts. While the later could only stand there and…
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The Ottoman Sultan kept his promise and sent an army of around three thousand men to the field to challenge the Rumelians for a fight even before the sun has came out of its hidings, with another two armies acting as flank guard and reinforcement which under his promise, shall not come out to aid the fight at all. And when Antonius went up the tower to have an inspection on the situation trying hard to observe under the weak early morning sun light, he understood it all. He laughed and pointed at the…
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"….We should ask Master Anjelo first, he is a master in this things and shall make sure that the Ottomans will plunge in to a civil distress waging wars against themselves, and as time passes and the gap widens they shall never be able to get united back under one banner against us." Antonius seems to be still hesitating on some thing as Abdullah sensed it, he immediately stepped forward grabbing his friend by the arm and further persuaded staring in to his eyes. "Admiral, my friend, I know that you are…
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By the end of the day, every major commander that is not involved in essential combat tasks are gathered around in the tent of Antonius, all keeping quiet as they think on what action to take next. Every commander has spoke their words of opinion on what to do next, but each proposal either get denied by Antonius for being too illogical, or they did not gain half of the support from every single person standing here. Actually every one knows that the situation of the war has entered a situation where they…
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"You request my presence at the Olympic Games, and for that reason you have sent envoys. For myself, I would come for the spectacle of physical struggle, except that I would be abandoning the greater struggle for virtue." - Apollonius of Tyana, Epp. Apoll. 24 "Sports event?" Antonius asked back. "You mean some thing like the ball games our boys used to play by the ports?" "Aye, admiral. A sports competition between various camps should be able to motivate their morales briefly… But, the most important…
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