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Summary: The war in Heaven continues. Raphael tells of the armies assembling, and a skirmish in which Abdiel hurls insults at Satan, and also wounds him. The evil angels end the first day of battle unfavorably, but Satan invents a technological wonder: a cannon. He uses this to route the good angels the second day, until they adapt by uprooting mountains that they use to bury the cannon. On the third day, God removes the good angel army from the battle, and instead sends Jesus ("the Son") alone to fight the rebellious angels. Jesus triumphs over the entire rebel army, sending them over Heaven's wall, from which they fall for nine days through Chaos to land finally in the Burning Lake in Hell. (source: //The Norton Anthology of English Literature, 5th Ed.//)

That's it. You don't have to read this "action scene," but if you want to,[| it's here] - and interesting to read for comparisons with battle scenes in Homer's //liad//, which was one of Milton's major models.