Battles
- Battle of Talavera de la Reina, Spain, an 1809 battle of the Peninsular War
- Battle of Talavera de la Reina (1936), during the Spanish Civil War
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Famous quotes containing the word battles:
“Know your enemy as you know yourself and you can fight a hundred battles with no danger of defeat.”
—Chinese proverb.
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—Michel de Montaigne (1533–1592)
“Hence to fight and conquer in all your battles is not supreme excellence; supreme excellence consists in breaking the enemy’s resistance without fighting.”
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