6-498: (Redirected from WarCry ) [REDACTED] Look up warcry in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Warcry , War cry , WarCry or War Cry may refer to: Battle cry , a yell or chant taken up in battle Warcry (activist) , Priya Reddy, Indian-American environmentalist and anarchist WarCry (band) , a Spanish power metal band WarCry (album) , 2002 WarCry (game) ,
12-489: A collectible card game War Cry (graphic novel) , by Jim Butcher War Cry (novel) , a 2017 novel by Wilbur Smith WarCry Network , a web portal centered on MMOGs The War Cry , the official newspaper of the Salvation Army See also [ edit ] Battle cry (disambiguation) Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with
18-488: A point where the enemy prefers to avoid confrontation altogether and opts to flee. In order to overstate one's potential for aggression, battle cries need to be as loud as possible, and have historically often been amplified by acoustic devices such as horns , drums , conches , carnyxes , bagpipes , bugles , etc. (see also martial music ). Battle cries are closely related to other behavioral patterns of human aggression , such as war dances and taunting, performed during
24-547: Is a yell or chant taken up in battle , usually by members of the same combatant group. Battle cries are not necessarily articulate (e.g. "Eulaliaaaa!", "Alala"..), although they often aim to invoke patriotic or religious sentiment. Their purpose is a combination of arousing aggression and esprit de corps on one's own side and causing intimidation on the hostile side. Battle cries are a universal form of display behaviour (i.e., threat display ) aiming at competitive advantage , ideally by overstating one's own aggressive potential to
30-722: The "warming up" phase preceding the escalation of physical violence. From the Middle Ages , many cries appeared on speech scrolls in standards or coat of arms as slogans (see slogan (heraldry) ) and were adopted as mottoes , an example being the motto " Dieu et mon droit " ("God and my right") of the English kings. It is said that this was Edward III 's rallying cry during the Battle of Crécy . The word " slogan " originally derives from sluagh-gairm or sluagh-ghairm ( sluagh = "people", "army", and gairm = "call", "proclamation"),
36-471: The title Warcry . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Warcry&oldid=1159601973 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Battle cry A battle cry or war cry
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