Maurikios Chartoularios Quotes
The Slavs like liberty; they cannot bear unlimited rulers, and are not easily brought to submission
See also {612345} for a contemporary description of the Slavs.
Maurikios, 582-602, [Maurice], Byzantine Emperor, Saint of the Eastern Orthodox Church, Strategicum
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See also {612020} for a contemporary description of the Slavs
Chile with help from San Martin had ejected the Spanish. O’Higgins, the Chilean leader had joined up with San Martin and served under his command. The sectional rivalry bothered men like Carrera. Instead of seeing all the South Americans fighting the Spanish as allies as O’Higgins did, Carrera and his brothers refused to join a government of unity and they and their troops were just as dictatorial and cruel as the Spanish had been. O’Higgins gave Indians and Blacks equal rights with whites which distressed the aristocratic Carrera’s. Finally the Carrera’s tried to set up their own government, and the new Chilean government disarmed their militia and executed two of the three Carrera brothers who were leading the militia troops who were little more than thieves and brigands.
Marion was the initiator of Guerilla Warfare and he and his men traveled lightly spending much time in the South Carolina swamps. They had few supplies and when chased by the British could not stop to hunt. The British called him the “Swamp Fox”. The American colonists at this point still thought of the British as “their countrymen.”
Maurikios Chartoularios, Latinized as Mauricius Chartularius (died 643 at Ravenna), was a Byzantine official and general, and later rebel in Italy.
