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Niccolò Machiavelli
Discourses on the first Ten (Books) of Titus Livius

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battle

   Book,  Chapter
1 1, XIV | away, they abstained from battle. None the less, when reason 2 1, XIV | Papirus in a most important battle which he waged against the 3 1, XIV | Samnites, and as victory in battle appeared certain to him, 4 1, XIV | in the front ranks of the battle. Whence it resulted that 5 1, XIV | Papirus] took steps to give battle without his army perceiving 6 1, XIV | war; for wanting to give battle to the Carthaginian army, 7 1, XIV | sea: whence that giving battle he lost the engagement; 8 1, XIV | have the soldiers go into battle with confidence, from which 9 1, XV | them, and never to flee in battle, and to kill whomever they 10 1, XXXI | able to thank him for the battle, they thanked him for returning 11 1, LIII | Hannibal without engaging in battle, because that people judged 12 1, LIII | enable him to engage in battle, even though Fabius did 13 1, LIII | authority. From this came the battle and defeat of Cannae, and 14 2, II | many times had sustained [battle against] two consular armies 15 2, VI | having waged and won the battle, [and], having imposed heavier 16 2, X | Sparta was obliged to come to battle and was routed, that if 17 2, X | constrained to try the fortune of battle. So that for this reason 18 2, X | had to try the fortune of battle, that which happened to 19 2, X | of hunger or to engage in battle, will always take the side 20 2, X | once and try the fortune of battle, rather than wait until 21 2, X | choose the side of coming to battle against his will, among 22 2, XI | had the [bugle] sound for battle and commanded his army to 23 2, XVI | just as by the loss of the battle the Latins became slaves, 24 2, XVI | same manner in the order of battle, and the organizations and 25 2, XVI | cavalry. In organizing a battle they put the Astati in front, 26 2, XVI | thus deployed kindled the battle, and if the Astati were 27 2, XVI | into one body rekindled the battle: if these were also forced 28 2, XVI | shoulder, and make their battle line wide in front and thin 29 2, XVI | often ruins an army.~In the battle at Ravenna, which was (according 30 2, XVI | the Vanguard, the next the Battle Corps, and the last the 31 2, XVII | comes to the joining of battle with more difficulty than 32 2, XVII | resisted, as they go in battle, not in mass, but in small 33 2, XVII | ditches, so that when the battle comes to hand to hand fighting, 34 2, XVII | your fortress and come to battle. This happened to the Spaniards 35 2, XVII | fortified place and come to battle. But suppose (as must often 36 2, XVII | dislodge him, and come to battle, where artillery (as will 37 2, XVII | disorganized you in the midst of battle, while that [the artillery] 38 2, XVII | only impedes you before the battle; which impediment is easily 39 2, XVIII | occurred when they came to battle with the Latins next to 40 2, XVIII | by that means renewed the battle and obtained the victory. 41 2, XXII | loses only those who die in battle, none by flight; and in 42 2, XXV | became united, and coming to battle they defeated and routed 43 2, XXVI | Consuls to enkindle the battle, so that the Veienti suffered 44 2, XXVII | peace first rather than a battle, when he saw that losing 45 2, XXVIII | Tuscans were engaged in battle, put themselves among the 46 2, XXIX | remedy. And in the order of battle, they made the ranks open 47 2, XXX | Ambassadors of Hannibal after the battle at Cannae, who having magnified 48 2, XXXIII | him that the glory of the battle should be all his, but as 49 3, X | guard against coming to battle: and in this, they appear 50 3, X | rather try the fortune of battle than to lengthen the war 51 3, X | decided not to come to battle, and in order not to wanted 52 3, X | not wanting to come to battle, but being posted with his 53 3, X | enough in wanting to avoid a battle, and not wanting to shut 54 3, X | decided to try the fortune of battle, and thus came to a regular 55 3, X | not try the fortune [of battle] before such an army would 56 3, X | encounter with him) come to battle with him; and if he besieges 57 3, X | more obliged to come to battle; as happened in our times 58 3, XII | was Head, in the heat of battle found itself shut in between 59 3, XIV | THAT APPEAR IN THE MIDST OF BATTLE~Of what importance is some 60 3, XIV | example that occurred in the battle which the Romans fought 61 3, XIV | be cited, who, coming to battle with the Gauls, armed all 62 3, XIV | given signal at the time the battle was hottest, they should 63 3, XIV | arranged that, in the ardor of battle there should issue forth 64 3, XVIII | happened many times that (the battle having lasted until nightfall) 65 3, XVIII | with the enemy, and the battle having been enkindled, they 66 3, XXII | arriving when he was to do battle, he spoke to his soldiers 67 3, XXII | describes all the orders of battle and shows all the dangers 68 3, XXXI | before they had come to the battle with them, and in which 69 3, XXXI | Antiochus refused, and coming to battle, and losing it, he again 70 3, XXXII | try every other means than battle, sent their citizen Hasdrubal 71 3, XXXIII | attack the center of their battle line. For a real virtu, 72 3, XXXIII | his soldiers before the battle, and after giving them many 73 3, XXXVI | JUDGED AT THE BEGINNING OF A BATTLE TO BE MORE THAN MEN, AND 74 3, XXXVI | as at the beginning [of a battle], the heat of battle actually 75 3, XXXVI | of a battle], the heat of battle actually inflaming them. 76 3, XXXVII | his army; for to begin a battle where he cannot employ all 77 3, XXXVII | necessary, before coming to battle, to do something by which 78 3, XXXVII | and become desirous of the battle. Which proceeding, as it 79 3, XXXVIII| lead them into the real battle. Any military man, therefore, 80 3, XLV | THE BETTER PROCEEDING IN BATTLE, EITHER TO SUSTAIN THE FIRST 81 3, XLV | Tuscans, and both coming to battle on the same day, it is to 82 3, XLVII | when he was wounded in a battle, and as this was bringing


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