(To be completed). Most wars have a winner and a looser and this is not sufficient identify the times, since the same countries have been fighting over and over for hundreds of years. But the military hierarchy way of thinking have been constantly renewed, and this helps to identify the times. The criteria for regrouping the quatrains are based on some identified keywords.
War events
2.25 Treason, Rhone (Rosne in French), Gar
"The foreign guard will betray the fortress,"
Hope and shadow of a higher marriage:
"Guard deceived, fort seized in the press,"
"Loire, Saone, Rhone, Garonne, mortal outrage."
2.82 Press / crowd, escaped, Great
"Through hunger the prey will make the wolf prisoner,"
The aggressor then in extreme distress.
"The heir having the last one before him,"
The great one does not escape in the middle of the crowd.
4.9 Press / crowd, hurt, Great , betrayed
The chief of the army in the middle of the crowd
"Will be wounded by an arrow shot in the thighs,"
When Geneva in tears and distress
Will be betrayed by Lausanne and the Swiss.
10.85 Old tribune, captive, deliver, pressed
"The old tribune on the point of trembling,"
He will be pressed not to deliver the captive:
"The will, non-will, speaking the timid evil,"
To deliver to his friends lawfully.
4.75 Defections / desertion and defense
"Ready to fight one will desert,"
The chief adversary will obtain the victory:
"The rear guard will make a defense,"
The faltering ones dead in the white territory.
10.13 Hidden soldiers, secret passage in a field
"Beneath the food of ruminating animals,"
led by them to the belly of the fodder city:
"Soldiers hidden, their arms making a noise,"
Tried not far from the city of Antibes.
9.79 Ambush
The chief of the fleet through deceit and trickery
Will make the timid ones come out of their galleys:
"Come out, murdered, the chief renouncer of chrism,"
Then through ambush they will pay him his wages.
9.81 Ambush, witted
"The crafty King will understand his snares,"
Enemies to assail from three sides:
"A strange number tears from hoods,"
The grandeur of the translator will come to fail.
Painting by Delaroche : Napoleon crosses the Alps / Louvre