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During the Third Crusade, Richard received word that a foraging party had been trapped by Saracens. He immediately rode out to aid them.
When he arrived on the scene, his advisors warned that he couldn't save the men. They were goners, and if he risked himself on a hopeless rescue mission he would doom the entire Crusade. Better to let them die!
The chronicler reports Richard's reaction:
“The king changed color as his blood boiled, and replied to their persuasions: ‘When I have requested my beloved companions to go ahead to battle on the solemn promise that aid would follow, if I failed to do as I said and am not there to defend those who trust me so that they meet their deaths—which God forbid—because I am absent and idle, then may I never again usurp the name of king!’
"And without another word, he put spur to horse and with indescribable rage—I might almost say madness—he charged the Turks, scattered their close knit ranks with his powerful impact, passing through them like lightning and throwing down a great many with a single blow.”
Source: Book 4 of the Itinerarium Peregrinorum et Gesta Regis Ricardi, art by Stefan Kopinski.
Imagine the king who not only fights at the front of his forces, but who relocates himself during the battle, "now here, now there, wherever the attacks of the Turks raged the hottest." He understands that his presence changes things. "By his own daring example he at once gave courage to his own men and carried dismay amongst the foe.”
This is the chronicler's description of Richard the Lionhearted in action from the Itinerarium Peregrinorum et Gesta Regis Ricardi.
Art by Hong Wen—
Como morador da zona norte, essa romantização do rio de janeiro (uns quarteirões da zona sul), me deixa muito puto, vontade de dar uma madeirada nesses lunáticos
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🇷🇴 Há 36 anos, a Romênia protagonizava a única revolução armada e a única transição violenta de um regime socialista para a restauração do capitalismo no Leste Europeu.
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não conseguimos arrecadar nada 😞
Estamos em uma batalha constante para manter o lar temporário dos nossos animais. Sem recursos, não conseguimos garantir a segurança e o bem-estar deles. Mas, o seu apoio pode mudar essa realidade. Podem nos ajudar nessa?
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