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A Māori performer giving a Haka at a folk festival in Poland NZDF soldiers performing a battle cry All Blacks performing a Haka, 1:39 min. A battle cry or war cry is a yell or chant taken up in battle, usually by members of the same combatant group. Battle cries are not necessarily articulate (e.g. "Eulaliaaaa!", "Alala"..), although they ...
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[a] (French pronunciation: [mɔ̃tʒwa sɛ̃ dəni]) was the battle-cry and motto of the Kingdom of France. It allegedly refers to Charlemagne 's legendary banner, the Oriflamme , which was also known as the "Montjoie" [ 1 ] and was kept at the Abbey of Saint Denis , though alternative explanations exist.
The origin of the cry is uncertain. One theory is that the rebel yell was born of a multi-ethnic mix. In his book The Rebel Yell: A Cultural History, Craig A. Warren puts forward various hypotheses on the origins of the rebel yell: Native American, Celt, Black or sub-Saharan, Semitic, Arab or Moorish, or an inter-ethnic mix.
Hooah / ˈ h uː ɑː / is a battle cry used by members of the United States Army. [1] Originally spelled "Hough", the battle cry was first used by members of the 2nd Cavalry Regiment during the Second Seminole War in 1841, after Seminole chief Coacoochee toasted officers of the regiment with a loud "Hough!", apparently a corruption of "How d'ye do!"
Faugh a ballagh (/ ˌ f ɔː x ə ˈ b æ l ə x / FAWKH ə BAL-əkh; also written Faugh an beallach) is a battle cry of Irish origin, meaning "clear the way". The spelling is an 18th-century anglicization of the Irish language phrase Fág an bealach [ˈfˠaːɡ ə ˈbʲalˠəx], also written Fág a' bealach.
Oorah is a battle cry common in the United States Marine Corps since the mid-20th century.. Several anecdotes attributed the phrase to John R. Massaro's time as a gunnery sergeant in the Reconnaissance Company, 1st Marine Division, in the mid-1950s. [1]
Italian aviators shout the war-cry in October 1917. According to Pindar, Alala was the daughter of Polemos, the personification of war, and was characterised by the poet as "prelude to spears, to whom men offer a holy sacrifice of death on behalf of their city". [3] A poetic epithet of the war god Ares is Alaláxios (Ἀλαλάξιος).