A laager, (English: leaguer) also known as a wagon fort, is a mobile fortification made of wagons arranged into a rectangle, a circle or other shape and possibly joined with each other, an improvised military camp.
Overview
Ammianus Marcellinus, a Roman army officer and historian of the 4th century, describes a Roman army approaching "ad carraginem" as they approach a Gothic camp. Historians interpret this as a wagon-fort.
Notable historical examples include Hussites, which called it vozová hradba ("wagon wall"), known under the German word Wagenburg ("wagon castle"), tabors in the armies of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth and Cossacks, the Laager of the settlers in South Africa. Similar ad hoc defense formations were used in the United States, and were sometimes called corrals. These were traditionally used by 19th century American settlers traveling to the West in convoys of Conestoga wagons. When faced with attack, such as by hostile Native American tribes, the travelers would rapidly form a circle out of their wagons, bringing the draft animals (sometimes horses, but more commonly oxen and women and children to the center of the circle. The armed men would then man the perimeter, the circled wagons serving to break up the enemy charge, to create a certain amount of concealment from observation and shelter from enemy firearmss fire. They would also slow down and separate any warriors who attempted to get past the wagons into the circle, making them easier to dispatch, although they never formed a perfect barricade as a true wall would. This tactic was popularly known as "circling up the wagons", and survives into the modern day as an idiom describing a person or group preparing to defend themselves from attack or criticism.
Circle the Wagons is the 14th album by the Norwegian band Darkthrone. The album was released on 5 April 2010. Fenriz, the band's drummer, described the music as Darkthrone's "own brand of heavy metal/speed metal-punk" and declared it a further shift from their old black metal style. About half of the album was written by Fenriz and half by Nocturno Culto.
The catalog number "ANTI-KING OV HELL 001" appears in the liner notes of the album.
At daybreak we travel, we say the Son is our guide. At daybreak we're traveling, blind in the light. As the sunset approaches, we fear for the night skies. As the sunset approaches, we fear for our lives. Hear the sound of, all around us, hear the sound of their wings in the night. God, save us. God, save us. God, save us from the evil ones. We circle the wagons; we're too afraid to leave the light. We circle the wagons; we're lost in the night. All night we're spinning, in circles. Around, around. All night we're spinning, because we're all blind. Hear the sound of, all around us, hear the sound of their wings in the night. God, save us. God, save us. God, save us from the evil ones. Hear the sound of, all around us, hear the sound of their wings in the night. God, save us. God, save us. God, save us from what we've become. Well, what good is a lantern in the light of day? Tell me, what good is a lantern in the light of day? Tell me, what good is a lantern in the light of day? Tell me, what good is a lantern if it only sees the light of day? All night we circle the wagons. All night we circle the wagons. Hear the sound of, all around us, hear the sound of their wings in the night. God, save us. God, save us. God, save us from the evil ones. Hear the sound of, all around us, hear the sound of their wings in the night. God, save us. God, save us. God, save us from what we've become. All night we circle the wagons.
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