Clusium
Americannoun
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As Horatius defied the armies of Clusium, British shipbuilders stood on the bridge of their destroyers and refused to surrender them to the Argentine Navy.
From Time Magazine Archive
They first directed their march to Clusium; but soon the torrent rolled with resistless force upon the walls of Rome.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 56, Number 348 by Various
And he sent some men to Tudera and Clusium, with orders to make fortified camps there, and he was intending to follow them and assist in besieging the barbarians at those places.
From Procopius History of the Wars, Books V. and VI. by Dewing, H. B.
On this answer being taken to Brennus, he at once ordered that the siege of Clusium should be abandoned, and marched with his whole army upon Rome.
From Historic Tales, Volume 11 (of 15) The Romance of Reality by Morris, Charles
With this story every school-boy has been made familiar through Macaulay's "Lay," beginning: "Lars Porsena of Clusium By the Nine Gods he swore That the great house of Tarquin Should suffer wrong no more."
From The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to prose. Volume II (of X) - Rome by Halsey, Francis W. (Francis Whiting)
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