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34 besieged
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33 about
33 defend
33 difficulty
33 outside
33 pass
Niccolò Machiavelli
On the Art of War

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defend

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1 1| govern my subjects, and defend them, and in order to defend 2 1| defend them, and in order to defend them, I must love peace 3 1| had to wage war on land to defend Venice and where they ought 4 1| would not be sufficient to defend you, or enable you to undertake 5 2| being on foot and wanting to defend themselves from enemies 6 2| and find arms which should defend them from the fury of horses. 7 2| well equipped with armor to defend himself, as were the men-at-arms 8 2| armor, is much more apt to defend himself from pikes, and 9 2| to the region they had to defend, which was very open with 10 2| impose that necessity to defend it that anciently existed, 11 2| parts; so that weak Cities defend themselves by allying themselves 12 3| help the rank in front, or defend them, or change them by 13 3| pikemen that gird you will defend you from every onrush of 14 3| already seized it, and to defend it, the enemy has moved 15 3| carrying a weapon that cannot defend you.~FABRIZIO: This question 16 3| seize it; if they want to defend it, it is necessary that 17 3| artillery, from which they defend themselves with armor and 18 3| unarmed kind, which cannot defend themselves from a near-by 19 4| where a small number can defend you, or where inexperience 20 5| to have greater care, and defend it with greater obstinacy: 21 5| the enemy to assemble to defend the pass: but then when 22 6| constrain him to return to defend his home. This often has 23 6| being constrained to go to defend it, they (of that country) 24 6| and thus often he does not defend either. In addition to the 25 6| they were constrained to defend themselves, and thus, against 26 7| enclosing the ditch; for to defend the wall from the front, 27 7| outside the town you have to defend, for you will always lose 28 7| them, as you are unable to defend small things when they are 29 7| intervals, to be able to defend it with lances, cross-bows, 30 7| within the town that you defend, you cannot remedy it otherwise 31 7| his entire force, and you defend it with part of yours. The 32 7| and seeing he could not defend it without having to divide 33 7| their enterprises, that to defend Rome, they did not leave


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