Manse Everard on the battlefield at Rignano is at a pivotal point in time because King Roger, if he survives the battle, will establish the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies which will survive in different forms until the nineteenth century and will then become the core of the new Italian state. Everard participates in this battle to save the two Rogers, father and son, just as he had already participated in the battle of Ticinus to save the two Scipios, father and son. Time Patrol agents are able first to know of a battle, then to participate in it, without being recognized as anachronisms by anyone who belongs there. One of the Time Traveller's dinner guests had proposed merely to observe the Battle of Hastings. Did HG Wells have any idea of the implications when another guest suggested that extratemporal observers might attract attention by ancestors who had no great tolerance of anachronisms? But Patrol agents are skilled at passing unnoticed among their ancestors.
The Battle of Hastings: The Time Machine.
The Battle of Gettysburg: Bring The Jubilee by Ward Moore.
The Battles of Ticinus and Rignano: Time Patrol and The Shield Of Time.
This is (a large part of) the history of time travellers on historical battlefields.
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