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The Fabian strategy is a military strategy where pitched battles and frontal assaults are avoided in favor of wearing down an opponent through a war of attrition and indirection. While avoiding decisive battles , the side employing this strategy harasses its enemy through skirmishes to cause attrition, disrupt supply and affect morale.
Born at Rome c. 280 BC, Fabius was a descendant of the ancient patrician Fabia gens.He was the son or grandson [i] of Quintus Fabius Maximus Gurges, three times consul and princeps senatus, and grandson or great-grandson of Quintus Fabius Maximus Rullianus, a hero of the Samnite Wars, who like Verrucosus held five consulships, as well as the offices of dictator and censor.
The following months saw Fabius employ what would later be known as Fabian Strategy, and earn him the title of "The Delayer". Despite whatever provocation Hannibal thought up, the Roman army always refused to fight pitched battles, shadowed the Carthaginians from a distance, manoeuvred to keep to the high ground to deny the Carthaginian cavalry ...
Statue of Bertrand du Guesclin in Dinan. Because of du Guesclin's allegiance to France, the 20th century Breton nationalists considered him to be a 'traitor' to Brittany. During World War II, the pro-Nazi Breton Social-National Workers' Movement destroyed a statue of him in Rennes. In 1977 the Breton Liberation Front destroyed a statue of him ...
The Statue of Freedom, also known as Armed Freedom or simply Freedom, is a bronze statue designed by Thomas Crawford that, since 1863, has crowned the United States Capitol dome. Originally named Freedom Triumphant in War and Peace, a U.S. government publication now states that the statue "is officially known as the Statue of Freedom."
An 11-foot bronze statue honoring one of our nation's greatest heroes is coming to downtown Cincinnati.
The artist was also permitted to put up another statue, called “Tiki Torch,” to be installed at Freedom Plaza on Pennsylvania Avenue between the Capitol and the White House on Oct. 28.
A 1899 Journal story about the statue quotes former Gov. Herbert Ladd, who led the board directing State House construction, suggesting the sculpture "might be called the independent man" and ...