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... combatant who does not put in all his possible energy is lost . In four brief years , therefore , Europe was compelled to develop a warfare monstrously out of proportion to any conceivable good which the completest victory could ...
... combatant who does not put in all his possible energy is lost . In four brief years , therefore , Europe was compelled to develop a warfare monstrously out of proportion to any conceivable good which the completest victory could ...
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... combatant spirit in a large modern state , even during actual hostilities ; and in the case of Russia we have a striking example of the distaste a whole population may develop for the war - strain , even during the war and with the ...
... combatant spirit in a large modern state , even during actual hostilities ; and in the case of Russia we have a striking example of the distaste a whole population may develop for the war - strain , even during the war and with the ...
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... combatants and non - combatants ; but still , in the normal state , every able - bodied citizen was a soldier . The citizen took his place as a matter of course in the militia of his country , leaving to old men and women , or to slaves ...
... combatants and non - combatants ; but still , in the normal state , every able - bodied citizen was a soldier . The citizen took his place as a matter of course in the militia of his country , leaving to old men and women , or to slaves ...
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... combatants that at the close of the day , when night put a stop to the fight , of the whole six hundred only three men remained alive , two Argives , Alcanor and Chromius , and a single Spartan , Othryadas . The two Argives , regarding ...
... combatants that at the close of the day , when night put a stop to the fight , of the whole six hundred only three men remained alive , two Argives , Alcanor and Chromius , and a single Spartan , Othryadas . The two Argives , regarding ...
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