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4th Australian Light Horse Brigade at Beersheba, Palestine (1917)
800 Australian soldiers rode 60 miles through the searing desert to meet the Ottoman-held fortress of Beersheba from the unexpected side, which was guarded by two rows of trenches filled with Turkish riflemen and machine-guns - strengthened after two failed British assaults.
Rather than dismounting and fighting as infantry per convention, the Light Horse charged into the entrenchments, slashing with 2’ Bayonets from horseback. They leapt over the trenches, each four feet wide and ten feet deep, dismounting and stabbing everyone in a brutal gorefest. It was over in less than an hour.
31 horsemen died, and 36 were wounded. They captured 750 Turks, 9 artillery pieces, 3 machine guns, and tons of other munitions and supplies.
Jupiter/Zeus, King of the Gods in the Classical pantheon. He overthrew the old king of gods, Saturn/Cronus - his father, who had a habit of devouring his children to suppress competition. With a godly sex-drive, he shape-shifted to seduce both Goddesses and mortals - as their husband, a bull, a swan, a partridge, or a shower of gold.
“Apocalypse” icon, Author unknown, from early 16th-century Russia
Jeanne d’Arc au siège d’Orléans by Jules Eugène Lenepveu
Joan of Arc’s Victory over the English at the Siege of Orléans (1429)
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