Quotes About Conflict

There's an old Irish saying: Many a time a man's mouth broke his nose.

I didn't know what to do. I'm in love with this woman, I'm married to this other woman, and I'm in trouble, so I call my two friends. That's all I need, two. I need the main guy and the guy I go to when I drain the main guy.

When Charlemagne began his long campaign against the Saxons in 772, he destroyed

Once he had recovered, Eadwine had retaliated by leading an army into Wessex and laying it to waste,

This reportedly drew condemnation from Dunstan, but the archbishop was very elderly and died

the building of bridges and the defence of fortresses against enemies when necessary'.

But what really sealed Britain's fate were similar attacks on the other side of the empire.

This state of affairs continued until the Britons defeated the Saxons at a place called Badon Hill (Mons Badonicus

Britain was evidently divided,

Coenwulf dealt briskly with these challenges to his rule.

Then, in the summer of 991, a much larger force arrived from Scandinavia.

the boundary agreed between the king and his erstwhile enemy, Guthrum,

after the viking leader's submission in 878.

it forced Æthelred to do what Byrhtnoth had refused to countenance, and pay the vikings to cease their plundering.

A crucial difference between Æthelred and Alfred, however, is that Alfred fought against his enemies in person.

in 934, the king set out to discipline Constantine by invading his territory.

a vicious warrior with whom Wilfrid collaborated around the same time.

twenty years since the arrival of the great heathen army that had destroyed three of the four Anglo-Saxon kingdoms.

warfare was primarily an aristocratic pursuit.

The Saxon', he wrote, 'is the most ferocious of all foes. He comes upon you without warning;

It was not only the Saxon's ferocity and fearlessness that perturbed his opponents, but his paganism.

With both Cynewulf and Cyneheard dead, and many of their men with them,

Dagobert's enemies greatly resented Wilfrid's interference in Frankish politics

As soon as the English bishop stepped off the boat he was seized,