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If I were asked to define leadership, I should say it is the projection of personality. It is the most intensely personal thing in the world because it is just plain you.

The qualities that distinguish a leader from other men are courage, will power, initiative, and knowledge. If you have not got those qualities you will not make a leader; if you have them, you will.

- Field Marshal Sir William Slim from an address at West Point, circa 1950:

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Today in Military History

March 24



1848:

12e REgiment blinde du Canada: Adsum


1871:

6th Bn, Royal 22e Regiment: Honeur et Devoir (Honour and Duty) and Je Me Souviens (I remember)


1945:

VC won by Cpl Frederick George Topham, 1st Canadian Parachute Battalion, East of the Rhine




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