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They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old
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Officers enter the army at an age when they are more likely to take up existing opinions than to form their own. They grow up carrying into effect orders and regulations founded on those received opinions; they become, in some measure identified with existing views, till, in the course of years, the ideas thus gradually imbibed get too firmly rooted to be either shaken or eradicated by the force of argument or reflection. In no profession is the dread of innovation so great as in the army.
- Colonel John Mitchell, British Army, 1839
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September 18
1759: Quebec surrendered to the British, following Wolfe's victory at the Plain of Abraham on 13 September, sounding the death knell for a French presence in Canada.
1931: Japanese invade Manchuria, occupying Mukden, Changchun and Kirin (Mukden Incident)
1944: SAN FORTUNATO, effective dates for battle honour begin (to 20 Sept 44)
1944: Several "Canloan" officers serving with the 1st Air Landing Brigade are killed in the defense of the recently captured bridgehead at Arnheim, Holland.
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