I might have expected you to forget. It's our first monthiversary!

The chief obligation of a sipahi was to take up residence on his fief and to be prepared at all times to rally, armed for battle, to his banner-holder's flag on the sultan's order. According to the income of his fief, every sipahi had to raise a fixed number of armed horsemen (cebeli), who followed him on campaigns.

drawing sudden draughts upon the enemy when he looketh not for you

he jumped up with a strain