Europe. If John was seeing this today he might describe it as an American general riding into battle on a tank. Following close behind the armed aggression of the first rider comes the violence of the second. This rider comes to take peace from the earth and let men get on with slaughtering one another. Appropriately, his horse is ‘fiery red’, so often the colour of war. His sword is ‘large’, as if to symbolize the scale of the killing which will take place. The red horse’s