The Face of Battle The Face of Battle The Face of Battle is a 1976 non-fiction book on military history by the English military historian John Keegan. It deals first with the structure of historical writing about battles, the strengths and weaknesses of the "battle piece," and then with the structure of warfare in three time periods—medieval Europe, the Napoleonic Era, and World War I—by analyzing three battles: Agincourt, Waterloo, and the Somme, all of which involved English soldiers and occurred in approximately the same geographical area. When published, the work was groundbreaking. It does not examine the battles only from the point of
Battle of the Baetis River local knowledge. A number of Sertorius men were locals so he had the upper hand. The only fragmentary description we have is from Sallust: Fufidius lost two thousand men, and the greater part of further Spain along with them. Fufidius survived the battle but vanishes into obscurity, remembered mainly as the man who had lost Hispania to Sertorius. Sertorius' victory marked the start of Sertorian war which would ravage the Iberian peninsula for the next eight years. The war would only end after a number of Sertorius' men became disgruntled and assassinated Sertorius. Battle of the Baetis River The Battle