The battle roll: an encyclopedia containing descriptions of the most famous and memorable land battles and sieges in all ages . ed the defile, and ad-vanced toward Hannibals camp. Hannibalallowed them to advance until they had pro-ceeded more than half way through the val-ley, and then he gave the signal for battle,and commanded his troops to come out oftheir ambuscade, in order that he might at>-tack the enemy from all quarters at tlie sametime. The Romans were seized with thegreatest consternation; they were not yetdrawn up in order of battle; their arms werenot in readiness, and they saw
The battle roll: an encyclopedia containing descriptions of the most famous and memorable land battles and sieges in all ages . ed the defile, and ad-vanced toward Hannibals camp. Hannibalallowed them to advance until they had pro-ceeded more than half way through the val-ley, and then he gave the signal for battle,and commanded his troops to come out oftheir ambuscade, in order that he might at>-tack the enemy from all quarters at tlie sametime. The Romans were seized with thegreatest consternation; they were not yetdrawn up in order of battle; their arms werenot in readiness, and they saw themselvesattacked in front, in rear, and in flank. In amoment their ranks were thrown into disor-der. Flaminius, of all the Romans, alone wasundaunted. He rode furiously through themasses of his affrighted soldiers; he urgedthem to cut their way with their swordsthrough the midst of their enemies. • But atthis moment a thick fog arose, and darknessadded to the terrors of the Roman soldiers,while the shouts of their enemies resoundedthrough the valley, from cliff to cliff, asthough from the throats of a countless THYMBEA. 625 But now the Romans saw themselves sur-rounded on all sides, without an opening forescape, and danger made them rushed in an enraged and tumultuousmass against their enemies, who receivedthem with equal animosity. When the furyof the fight was at its highest pitch, therehappened an earthquake wliich overturnedwhole cities, changed the courses of rivers,and tore off the tops of mountains, in theimmediate vicinity of the contending infuriated combatants heeded it not— And such the storm of battle on this such the frenzy whose convulsions blindTo all save carnage, that, beneath the fray,An earthquake reeld unheededly away 1None felt stern nature rocking at liis feet,And yawning forth a grave for those who layUpon their bucklers fbr a winding-sheet;Such is the absorbing hate when nations meet! At length Flaminius wa
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