History A-Z IV

Xenophon's Defense of Socrates

Writing about Socrates' death sentence, "It is better to die before the onset of senility than to escape death by humbling oneself to an unjust persecution."
 
The Zulus defeated by the British in a brutal, Imperialistic war, the well-armed British troops, numbering about 120, brutally massacred more than 500 Zulu fighters armed mostly with sheilds and spears.
 
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