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The army marched out of camp and drew up, facing the enemy. The cavalry was drawn up in two squadrons; the slingers and archers marched in the van of the army, and all the best fighters were put in the front rank; (1 Maccabees 9, 11)
Jonathan then left and pitched camp outside Ascalon, where the citizens came out to meet him with great ceremony. (1 Maccabees 10, 86)
Jonathan and his army, meanwhile, having pitched camp by the Lake of Gennesar, rose early, and by morning were already in the plain of Hazor. (1 Maccabees 11, 67)
When the fugitives from his own forces saw this, they came back to him and joined in the pursuit as far as Kadesh where the enemy encampment was, and there they themselves pitched camp. (1 Maccabees 11, 73)
He sent spies into their camp, who told him on their return that the enemy were taking up positions for a night attack on the Jews. (1 Maccabees 12, 26)
At sunset, Jonathan ordered his men to keep watch with their weapons at hand, in readiness to fight at any time during the night, and posted advance guards all round the camp. (1 Maccabees 12, 27)
then, breaking camp, he went to Damascus, thus crossing the whole province. (1 Maccabees 12, 32)
Simon pitched camp in Adida, facing the plain. (1 Maccabees 13, 13)
Antiochus pitched camp outside Dora with a hundred and twenty thousand fighting men and eight thousand cavalry. (1 Maccabees 15, 13)
Giving his men the password 'Victory from God', he made a night attack on the king's pavilion with a picked band of the bravest young men. Inside the camp he destroyed about two thousand, and his men cut down the largest of the elephants with its mahout; (2 Maccabees 13, 15)
having eventually filled the camp with terror and confusion, they successfully withdrew, (2 Maccabees 13, 16)
Encouraged by the noble words of Judas, which had the power to inspire valour and give the young the spirit of mature men, they decided not to entrench themselves in a camp, but bravely to take the offensive and, in hand-to-hand fighting, to commit the result to the fortune of war, since the city, their holy religion and the Temple were in danger. (2 Maccabees 15, 17)