Cinematography of 300 Compared to Gladiator In the films that have to do with the Roman Empire, Spartans, and the Greek Gods and Goddess all end in the lost of the legend. In 300, King Leonidas and a force of 300 men fight the Persians at Thermopylae in 480 B.C. After the three days all of the Spartans laid dead, including the legend Leonidas. Then in Gladiator a Roman general is betrayed and his family murdered by a corrupt prince, he comes to Rome as a gladiator to seek revenge. After getting what he wants, which is to battle the prince, he comes out victorious but dies shortly after from a wound that was suffered in the battle.
He thought that the veteran mercenaries were a potential threat, so he had them go to the city of Messana to attack the Campanians. While they advanced he had the rest of the army withdraw while they were slaughtered. He led the army to defeat the enemy in the plain of Mylae, capturing their leaders and ending the aggressive behavior of the Mamertines. Hiero went back to Syracruse and was seen by the allies as king. Mamertimes were defeated on their territory, so they appealed to Rome and to the Carthaginians.
Leonidas refuses, and kills the Persian messengers. He then asks the Spartan Oracle what he should do, and she has a premonition that he shouldn’t go into battle with the Persians. Leonidas does anyway, taking his three hundred men and going after the Persian army of over 100,000. A disgruntled reject of the Persian army then gives the Persians a way to sneak up on the Spartans, and the Spartan army is
In 1951 a seven mile stretch of hills running north and south, the cries of men dying could be heard along with the retort of artillery and machine gun fire throughout the valley. This location of such destruction was Heartbreak Ridge, located just north of the 38th parallel the U.S. 2nd Infantry Division along with its NATO allies were making a push to take the ridge and hills to prevent the North Koreans and their Chinese allies from invading South Korea again. The month long campaign to take Heartbreak Ridge would push the U.S. and her allies to the breaking point but their sheer determination and fortitude would see them through to the end and to victory. In 1951 the Korean War has turned into a stalemate along the 38th parallel where
The Greek army decisively defeated the more numerous Persians, marking a turning point in the Greco-Persian Wars. The Battle of Marathon in 490 BC was the result of Persian revenge, after the Greek city-states of Athens and Eretria involved themselves in the Ionian Revolt from 499-493 BC. According to modern historian, Peter Green, the Persians sought to attack Athens with a fighting force of approximately 25, 000 men, of both foot soldiers and cavalry. The Athenians had to bring together their whole hoplite force to defeat the Persians. The Persian force was nearly double that of the Greeks, however due to Miltiades’ reliable expertise on Persian warfare, he was aware that the most elite soldiers would fight in the centre with the weaker ones at the wings.
Alatheus and Saphrax army was nearby and could not be seen by the Romans and they also had a large portion of the Gothic cavalry. This meant that when the battle did commence they arrived just as they Roman army had fully committed all its troops. This meant that when the Romans were clearly defeated they could not retreat because they were surrounded by the heavy Gothic cavalry meant that there infantry got almost completely annihilated it was said by Emperor Valen that he lost 40000 men. As you can see the Gothic forces in red remained very defensive until their cavalry arrived this then meant that the Roman infantry which were progressing well into the Gothic line. This was changed when the cavalry arrived who quickly pushed of the Roman light cavalry before surrounding the Infantry and annihilating them.
These great rulers set out, each with a massive amount of armies, for the recovery of the holy city of Jerusalem. The 1st to attack was Barbarosa, by taking the overland route, by the hardships of the march and the swords of the Turks. This great emperor was anyway near the days of his death, but nothing could have slowed down his crusading zeal. His army was attacked and he died drowning with most of his men, the rest went back to Germany. With Barbarosa gone, Philip 2 and Richard finally mustered their forces beneath wall of Acre.
His ruse failed when he was forced to show his sanity in order to save his infant son’s life. With no choice he sets off for Troy where he spends the next 10 years. During the war his role was mainly that of an adviser and strategist. He became most famous for his idea to leave a huge wooden horse as a gift for the Trojans. The Trojans brought the horse inside their city walls not realizing that the horse was hollow and filled with Archaean soldiers.
The actual military invasion of Nanking was preceded by a tough battle at Shanghai that began in the summer of 1937. After defeating the Chinese at Shanghai in November, 50,000 Japanese soldiers then marched on toward Nanking. Unlike the troops at Shanghai, Chinese soldiers at Nanking were led and loosely organized. After just four days of fighting, Japanese troops smashed into the city on December 13, 1937, with orders issued to "kill all captives." Their first concern was to eliminate any threat from the 90,000 Chinese soldiers who surrendered.
The Battle of Mogadishu The Battle of Mogadishu went from a normal military kidnapping to a seventeen hour firefight for soldiers lives. Most Americans have the image of American soldiers being dragged lifeless through the streets of Mogadishu, half-naked, but the event itself was much more than that. It was an event filled with miscommunication, bad choices and American heroes fighting for their lives (Alex 1). The Battle of Mogadishu led to the deaths of thousands of Somali militia, which caused the United States to intervene leading to one of the United States Military’s largest aggravating military defeats. There were many events that took place that led up to the battle.