Patricia Taylor
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By this time, the entire retreat of the Ottomans has actually only lasted for one day, though frankly speaking it is understandable that the Ottomans lost their order and organisation from yesterday's retreat judging by their situation, low morales and messed up commanding structure. However, what makes people bewilder is the fact that it just took one single day, twenty four hours, for the entire Ottoman army to completely crumble in to this awful state. No one, not even Antonius himself, has expected his…-
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"Nay, had I power, I should Pour the sweet milk of concord into hell, Uproar the universal peace, confound All unity on earth." - Macbeth, William Shakespeare On top of that singular word response 'no', the city council returned Mahumad Pasha Angelovic a particularly interesting letter of 'apologies' that definitely sounded like one in its use of words, as quoted in the letter "we cannot clear up the residences of our own citizens to give your highness' massive army a place to sleep, for our citizens…
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"The art of concentrating strength at one point, forcing a breakthrough, rolling up and securing the flanks on either side, and then penetrating like lightning, before the enemy has time to react, deep into his rear." - Erwin Rommel's comment on Blitzkrieg, quoted by Gordon Alexander Craig The pursuit continued for a whole day, the cavalry force of the Mamluks, Khalid and Abraham have chased all the way as a spear head deep in to unfamiliar territory with their infantry counter parts still dragged…
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"You are well aware that it is not numbers or strength that bring the victories in war. No, it is when one side goes against the enemy with the gods' gift of a stronger morale that their adversaries, as a rule, cannot withstand them" - The Persian Expedition, Xenophon The six thousand strong cavalry forces, a tremendous combat force for any state in this period of time almost unrealistic for a ruler like Antonius with a city and several city. Though in fact these 'cavalries' are not really that kind of…
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"He declared that he knew nothing, except the fact of his ignorance." - Socrates, Diogenes Laërtius The air between the Rumelians walls and Ottoman rear intensified, as Ibrahim Pahsa passed the order around each section preparing them for the incoming battle. However, after a long enduring wait, not the shadows of Rumelian can be spotted outside of the walls. The whole crowd of ten thousand men just stood there under the noon winter sun of Greece, wearing armors and holding weapons getting their inner…
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"There is small risk a general will be regarded with contempt by those he leads, if, whatever he may have to preach, he shows himself best able to perform." - Xenophon The next morning on the first day of November the Ottomans started packing up embarking on an organised retreat, group by group, starting with their rear first. The Ottoman commanding group knows themselves and the troops they command well enough to stop the foolish idea of starting the retreat over night. If they are to retreat over the…
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"Look like the innocent flower. But be the serpent under it." - Macbeth "So, the Ottomans took no actions?" "Aye, they just sat there in their camps watching our Mamluk cavalries moving around." On the tower Antonius and Abdullah looked at a far at the Ottoman encampment observing their movements, but after seeing that the Ottomans put up no further actions ever withdrawing their troops from the front line, Antonius' felt like his anticipation has been thrown in to the Aegean sea returning with…
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"La Terreur, das sind großenteils nutzlose Grausamkeiten, begangen von Leuten, die selbst Angst haben, zu ihrer Selbstberuhigung" "Terror consists mostly of useless cruelties perpetrated by frightened people in order to reassure themselves." - Friedrich Engels "I shall let my own men I brought with my from my demesne lead the charge tomorrow morning." Seeing Mahumad Angelovic has backed off, Ibrahim too lowered his statues replying with a better attitude. "They shall die first before your men, this is…
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The overall atmosphere in the tent is more depressing than ever, with the dense shadowy clouds of defeat looming over the head of every Pasha and bey seated here. Ibrahim Pasha has compiled the overall statistics in to a paper, copied and shared it with the people here, with the intention that it is unfair for him to only have himself reading these pathetic statistics every day, he must share the stress equally with the rest of the gang so that he would feel a little better studying the negative emotions…
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"All men can see these tactics whereby I conquer, but what none can see is the strategy out of which victory is evolved." - Sun Tzu, Art of War After a final attack on the next day with the Rumelians backing off from the defensive positions, the Ottomans finally pulled down those anathematized walls which caused them so much pain and distress praying to their God almost every single day hoping that their unit will not be called upon by their commanders for the next batch of assault. They cheered and…
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