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| | Anecdotes I |
 | | During the harangue one of the twelve chiefs, Hugh Tuboeuf, had approached the messenger's horse, and had been stroking it approvingly; now, as the man finished, he suddenly turned and struck it one mighty blow between the eyes with his bare fist, laying the luckless animal unconscious on the ground. |
 | | At this, according to Malaterra, the messenger in a paroxysm of fear fainted dead away, but the Normans, having with some difficulty restored him to his senses, gave him a new horse, better than the first, on which they sent him back to the Catapan with the message that were ready. |
 | | I have placed the forces under my command in such a position that you are surrounded, and to avoid a needless effusion of blood I call on you to surrender your forces at once, and unconditionally. |
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