“And out of his mouth goeth a sharp sword, that with it he should smite the nations: and he shall rule them with a rod of iron: and he treadeth the winepress of the fierceness and wrath of Almighty God.” — Book of Revelation, Chapter 19, verse 15 - John of Patmos
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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.
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“All the lessons of history in four sentences:
Whom the gods would destroy, they first make mad with power.
The mills of God grind slowly, but they grind exceedingly small.
The bee fertilises the flower it robs.
When it is dark enough, you can see the stars.”
— Charles A. Beard
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.
“That is not dead which can eternal lie,
And with strange æons, even death may die”
— H.P. Lovecraft -Quoting the Necronomicon, in “The Nameless City”
“Apocalypse” icon, Author unknown, from early 16th-century Russia
“God made them as stubble to our swords.” — Oliver Cromwell
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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