 | Edward Gibbon - 1802 - 396 pàgines
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 | Edward Gibbon - 1805 - 506 pàgines
...to the eleventh hour, twenty-eight stan- CHAP, dards, besides those which might be broken or torn, were taken from the Persians ; the greatest part of...concealing their own loss, passed the night on the field. They acknowledged, that on this occasion it was less difficult to kill than to discomfit the soldiers... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1806 - 410 pàgines
...dispersed on all sides, from the want of orders rather than of resolution. The diligence of Heiaclius was not less admirable in the use of victory ; by a march of forty.eight miles in four and twei.ty hours, his vanguard occupied the bridges of the greater and the... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1811 - 416 pàgines
...;wenty-reight standards, beside those which might >e broken or torn, were taken from the PersU ins ; the greatest part of their army was cut in pieces, and the victors, concealing their own loss, rassed the night on the field. They acknowledged, that on this occasion it was less difficult to till... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1826 - 546 pàgines
...daybreak to the eleventh hour, twentyeiglit standards, beside those which might be broken or torn, were taken from the Persians; the greatest part of...concealing their own loss, passed the night on the CHAP. field. They acknowledged, that on this occasion it x ' was less difficult to kill than to discomfit... | |
 | James Silk Buckingham - 1829 - 586 pàgines
...Heraclius, AD 627, after describing the victorious results of the battle of Nineveh to the Greeks, says : " The diligence of Heraclius was not less admirable in the use of victory ; by a march of forty-eight miles in four-and-twenty hours, his vanguard occupied the bridges of the Greater and the... | |
 | James Silk Buckingham - 1830 - 580 pàgines
...Heraclius, AD 627, after describing the victorious results of the battle of Nineveh to the Greeks, says : " The diligence of Heraclius was not less admirable in the use of victory ; by a march of forty-eight miles in four-and-twenty hours, his vanguard occupied the bridges of the Greater and the... | |
 | James Silk Buckingham - 1830 - 572 pàgines
...Heraclius, AD 627, after describing the victorious results of the battle of Nineveh to the Greeks, says : " The diligence of Heraclius was not less admirable in the use of victory ; by a march of forty-eight miles in four-and-twenty hours, his vanguard occupied the bridges of the Greater and the... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1831 - 522 pàgines
...day-break to the eleventh hour, twenty-eight standards, besides those which might be broken or torn, were taken from the Persians ; the greatest part of...cut in pieces, and the victors, concealing their own lose, passed the night on the field. They acknowledged, that on this occasion it was less difficult... | |
 | Alexander Keith - 1832 - 384 pàgines
...day-break to the eleventh hour, twenty-eight standards, besides those which might be broken or torn, were taken from the Persians ; the greatest part of...their own loss, passed the night on the field. The cities and palaces of Assyria were open for the first time to the Romans. By a just gradation of magnificent... | |
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In the battle of Nineveh, which was fiercely fought from daybreak to the eleventh hour, twenty-eight standards, besides those which might be broken or torn, were taken from the Persians ; the greatest part of their army was cut in pieces, and the victors,... 
