"Dietrich of Tarnburg, of the high city of Tarnburg, some
two hundred pasangs to the north and west of Hochburg,
both substantially mountain fortresses, both in the more
southern and civilized ranges of the Voltai, was well-known to
the warriors of Gor. His name was almost a legend. It was he
who had won the day on the fields of both Piedmont and
Cardonicus, who had led the Forty Days' March, relieving the
siege of Talmont, who had effected the crossing of the Issus
in 10,122 C.A., in the night evacuation of Keibel Hill, when I
had been in Torvaldsland, and who had been the victor in the
battles of Rovere, Kargash, Edgington, Teveh Pass, Gordon
Heights, and the Plains of Sanchez. His campaigns were
studied in all the war schools of the high cities. I knew him
from scrolls I had studied years ago in Ko-ro-ba, and from
volumes in my library in Port Kar, such as the commentaries
of Minicius and the anonymous analyses of "The Diaries,"
sometimes attributed to the military historian, Carl
Commenius, of Argentum, rumored to have once been a
mercenary himself."
I have to admit, that even after all these years, just the names of events thrill me, like Rommel's crossing of the Meuse in 1940, or Grant's Vicksburg campaign, or Tannenberg in 1914.
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