"Light-armed" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... 554)]3. And they [Footnote: I.e., the Romans and the Macedonians.]delayed for several days, not meeting in battle array but conducting skirmishes and sallies of the light-armed troops and the horse. The Romans, for their part, were eager to join battle with all speed: their force was a strong one, they had little provision, and consequently would often go up to the foe's ...
— Dio's Rome, Vol VI. • Cassius Dio
... and indeed outnumbered, the resistance of the corsairs was but slight. In a close fierce melee like this the light-armed Moors had but little chance with the mail-clad English, whose heavy swords and axes clove their defenses at a blow. The fight lasted but three minutes, and then the last of ...
— The Boy Knight • G.A. Henty
... certainly. To steer, with a solitary light-armed sloop, close upon a coast, blockaded from north to south, by hundreds of armed vessels, in deliberate quest of a squadron, not improbably four or five times stronger than herself, was an act of almost reckless hardihood, fully in keeping with the ...
— The Cruise of the Alabama and the Sumter • Raphael Semmes |
