Another Pezzonovante

A capacidade de viver sem as amarras. Um símbolo vivo de liberdade, força e conexão com a natureza.

No matter what the weather is, I wish for all of you blue skies and golden sunshine internally all along the way.

Either you’re so undeveloped that you cannot see all that you could do, or you cannot give up your peace, your vanity, whatever, in order to do it.

Alexander the Great’s Wars & Campaigns In Around 30 Seconds. Animation: mapsinnutshell.

Tom Lovell - Alexander the Great Refusing Water in the Desert

A solas con "El Descendimiento" de Rogier van der Weyden (antes de 1443)

Never take life lying down.

But that doesn't mean the French could not beat them. The British wisely avoided combat until they could win. That's why the French never had a decisive victory against them.

Not the French fault that the British never fielded a proper expeditionary army until Waterloo. That's definitely the correct strategic move by the coalition to ensure that their decisive battle was fought under circumstances of their choosing.

By the time Britain is really fielding a large, first‑rate expeditionary army, the Grande Armee has already been bled in Spain and then in Russia. The Grand Armee as we think of it when we hear that word, never fought the British.

The British were so focused on naval war and subsidising coalitions that their only land clashes are mostly in peripheral theatres like Calabria 1806 and the peninsular campaign, which is of course not the Grande Armee.

Napoleon’s army in its 1805- 1807 apex virtually never met the British in a stand‑up continental battle. Instead, it destroyed Austrians, Prussians, and Russians instead.

Am I the only one that sang the words in my head? ❤️ 𝐂𝐚𝐧'𝐭 𝐇𝐞𝐥𝐩 𝐅𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐈𝐧 𝐋𝐨𝐯𝐞 - 𝐄𝐥𝐯𝐢𝐬 𝐏𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐥𝐞𝐲 🎶

Passacaglia on a beautiful piano | Handel/Halvorsen (Relaxing Piano Solo)

早春の放牧地。ずいぶん母から離れて遊ぶようになりましたね。

Napoleon on procrastination. Written in 1793. Still punching you in the face in 2026.

Nothing quite like Beethoven’s Moonlight Sonata to soothe the Monday blues.✨

Why was Caesar Rome's Greatest General? (new Cost of Glory video) I think the best illustration may be his Pharsalus campaign, where he faced Pompey and the combined grand army of his optimate antagonists, in the Civil War. It began with Caesar's humiliating strategic loss at Dyrrhachium. But one of Caesar's master strokes: In a campaign in which everyone else (including most historians today) thought Caesar had time working against him. He *kind of* did, since Pompey was vastly better provisioned with food, money, ships, etc. But Caesar realized an opportunity to turn the tables: When he retreated to the wide plains of Thessaly, great cavalry country, he was luring Pompey into a position where Pompey was obviously superior (Pompey had 7x the cavalry that Caesar did). Pompey kept refusing battle, knowing Caesar's great strength, while trying to make it look like Caesar was the one refusing battle (really Pompey was just offering it on insane terms, outside his fort, up on a hill). But Caesar was just waiting for the pressure to build on Pompey (much of the senate was literally watching, while camped out with Pompey, and getting impatient). Caesar at last called Pompey's bluff, and packed up to retreat. Now, if Pompey let Caesar go when he had him on easy territory, he'd be revealed as timid. Caesar knew that, to stay at the top of Rome's leadership, Pompey couldn't just wear Caesar down in a war of attrition. He had to challenge him man to man. The whole campaign came down not so much to military supremacy, as to a clash of egos, of politics, and Caesar exploited this fact to the maximum. To settle it then and there was militarily and strategically unnecessary, the military risk/reward calculation was bad. But Caesar offered a temptation too great to refuse for someone whose objective was not pure victory, but securing his reputation. Not unlike Alexander's approach to Darius III! Pompey marched out, fought, and lost. Battle details herein:

And I found both freedom of the loneliness and the safety from being understood, for those who understand us enslave something in us.

In a steeplechase everything depends on riding and pluck.