"...in these confines with a monarch's voice

Cry 'Havoc,' and let slip the dogs of war!"

~ Antony, in Shakespeare's Julius Caesar

They went over the strategies, the tactics the contingencies many times. Almost all of the volunteers had some sort of military training, and those who didn't knew enough to listen and keep quiet-all of them, all 600-some soldiers, widows and widowers, outlaws, merchants, farmers, and other flotsam of the human universe. A few ...