Source: Trent's Own Case (1936), Chapter XXI: "Aunt Judith Knits"
“By day certainly the combatants have a clearer notion, though even then by no means of all that takes place, no one knowing much of anything that does not does not go on in his own immediate neighborhood; but in a night engagement ( and this was the only one that occurred between great armies during the war) how could anyone know anything for certain?”
Book VII, 7.44-[1]
History of the Peloponnesian War, Book VII
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