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According to Edward Bishop Elliott's interpretation of the Four Horsemen as symbolic prophecy of the history of the Roman Empire, the second seal is opened and the Roman nation that experienced joy, prosperity, and triumph is made subject to the red horse which depicts war and bloodshed—civil war. Peace left the Roman Earth, resulting in the ...
General Campan; Marquis de Caulaincourt (1773-1827) – French ambassador to Russia General Chatrov – an old comrade in arms of Prince Nikolai Bolkonsky; Pavel Vasilievich Chichagov (1767–1849) or Tchichagov (8 July [O.S. 27 June] 1767 – 20 August 1849) – was a Russian military and naval commander of the Napoleonic wars.
The "Four Policemen" was a postwar council with the Big Four that US President Franklin Roosevelt proposed as a guarantor of world peace. Their members were called the Four Powers during World War II and were the four major Allies of World War II: the United Kingdom, the United States, the Soviet Union, and China. Roosevelt repeatedly used the ...
The "Four Horsemen" is the professional wrestling faction that competed in the National Wrestling Alliance and World Championship Wrestling in the 1980s and 1990s. The faction's original incarnation consisted of Ric Flair, Arn Anderson, Ole Anderson, Tully Blanchard, and J. J. Dillon, with other members including Lex Luger, Sid Vicious, Sting, Steve McMichael, Dean Malenko, Chris Benoit, Brian ...
They have four children: three girls and one boy. Daniel Rancour-Laferriere calls Pierre "one of the best known characters in world literature." [4] Merriam-Webster lists him among "the most attractive and sympathetic characters in literature". [5] And M. Keith Booker describes Pierre as one of Tolstoy's "most memorable characters". [6]
In Greek mythology, Idomeneus (/ aɪ ˈ d ɒ m ɪ n i ə s /; [1] Greek: Ἰδομενεύς) was a Cretan king and commander who led the Cretan armies to the Trojan War, in eighty black ships. [2] He was also one of the suitors of Helen, as well as a comrade of the Telamonian Ajax. Meriones was his charioteer and brother-in-arms.
Walton had succeeded in capturing, by his own account, four men-of-war, a bomb vessel and a storeship in addition to burning four other men-of-war. [40] Having repaired his damaged ships, Byng entered the port of Syracuse , then held by Savoyard troops under the Count of Maffei and blockaded by the Spanish army. [ 41 ]
"The Four Men" describes four characters, Myself, Grizzlebeard, the Poet and the Sailor, each aspects of Belloc's personality, as they journey in a half-real, half-fictional allegory of life. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Subtitled " a Farrago ", meaning a 'confused mixture', [ 3 ] the book contains a range of anecdotes, songs, reflections and miscellany.