<Tab/>On my count men, Charge! That is what you might have heard from your commander, or King, right before you charged into battle. Throughout history every culture has experienced one form of battle or another. Battle's bring out the best in men, and the worst in men. They bring out the courageous of men, and show the cowards running to the hills or the tree line for cover. Beowulf, The …showed first 75 words of 1409 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1409 total…creature, was our lord; the shield-wall broken. Damn that action, that he caused so many men to retreat from here!"(Maldon l. 237-243). This struck a great loss for the Saxon, for it weakened their numbers even more. The Saxons had lost the battle, but courage does out weighs coward ness in this particular incident. If you are going to go down, it might as well be by the sword, and not of old age.