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They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old
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The most consistently successful commanders, when faced by an enemy in a position that was strong naturally or materially, have hardly ever tackled it in a direct way. And when, under pressure of circumstances, they have risked a direct attack, the result has commonly been to blot their record with a failure.
- Sir Basil H. Liddel-Hart
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June 1
1879: Eugene, Prince Imperial of France, killed in the Zulu campaign
1915: Lord Kitchener made a K.G.
1917: Since beginning of the war, British have taken 76,067 prisoners on the Western front
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