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Warrior Defends Bridge Against Whole Army By Himself

Nick Brick, War Reporter

ROME----       A Roman soldier, called Horatius, defended the bridge leading to Rome yesterday all alone when the Roman army was too afraid to hold off the attacking Etruscan army.

Tarquin the Proud, Rome’s mean leader, was driven out by the Romans, but Tarquin convinced the Etruscans to give him an army and take revenge on Rome. When the Etruscans pushed the Roman army to the bridge connected to Rome, the Roman army was afraid, but Horatius, a Roman soldier came and held the army back.

While Horatius held the Etruscan army back, the other Roman soldiers tried very hard to chop it down. Horatius’s friends came to help him defend the bridge. When Horatius felt the bridge gave away, he told his friends to get back. Then, he swam back to Rome as if the gods were helping him.

The Etruscans, who heard the rumors about Rome being a divine city, decided it was 

true, and afraid to anger the gods, they retreated as they kept on thinking,”How can one man 

face an army and live?” One of the soldiers said,”When the Etruscan army got to the bridge, I 

was so scared that I wet my linen undergarment, but out came Horatius, defending the bridge. Horatius saved Rome!”