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A Māori performer giving a Haka at a folk festival in Poland NZDF soldiers performing a battle cry All Blacks performing a Haka, 1:39 min. A battle cry or war cry is a yell or chant taken up in battle, usually by members of the same combatant group. Battle cries are not necessarily articulate (e.g. "Eulaliaaaa!", "Alala"..), although they ...
The Barritus opens the battle and is meant to boost the morale of one's own side while intimidating and frightening the opponent. [2] [9] [10] The battle chant is started by the entire army, beginning with shields held to their mouths, murmuring softly, rebounding off the shield, and then escalating to a loud thundering.
Battle Cry" was written by the group members specifically for use in the film, inspired by the story as pitched to them by Bay. Lead singer Dan Reynolds revealed to Billboard that the aim with "Battle Cry" was to write "in a more cinematic way" to compose a song that was satisfying as a piece of music but also benefited the visual it was set to ...
Kalingattuparani (Tamil: கலிங்கத்துப்பரணி) is a 12th-century Tamil poem and a war song by Jayamkondar, celebrating the victory of ...
Alala / ˈ æ l ə l ə / (Ancient Greek: Ἀλαλά (alalá); "battle-cry" or "war-cry") was the personification of the war cry in Greek mythology.Her name derives from the onomatopoeic Greek word ἀλαλή (alalḗ), [1] hence the verb ἀλαλάζω (alalázō), "to raise the war-cry".
The origin of the cry is uncertain. One theory is that the rebel yell was born of a multi-ethnic mix. In his book The Rebel Yell: A Cultural History, Craig A. Warren puts forward various hypotheses on the origins of the rebel yell: Native American, Celt, Black or sub-Saharan, Semitic, Arab or Moorish, or an inter-ethnic mix.
Faugh a ballagh (/ ˌ f ɔː x ə ˈ b æ l ə x / FAWKH ə BAL-əkh; also written Faugh an beallach) is a battle cry of Irish origin, meaning "clear the way". The spelling is an 18th-century anglicization of the Irish language phrase Fág an bealach [ˈfˠaːɡ ə ˈbʲalˠəx], also written Fág a' bealach.
La Carmagnole has also been documented as a battle cry. At the battle of Jemappes on 6 November 1792 it is written that, "the sans-culottes in the army rushed the enemy singing "La Marseillaise" and "La Carmagnole." It was a great republican victory, and all of Belgium fell to the revolutionary armies." [6]