Air-Force.ca's Fallen Comrades

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Their strength became split in diverging directions -- due partly to divided minds at the top, but also, ironically, to dazzling initial success in all directions. Instead of keeping a single line of operation that threatened alternate objectives, they were led to pursue several lines of operation, each too obviously aiming at a single objective, which thus became easier for the devender to cover. Moreover, in each case the attacker's direction became obvious at the same time that his drive was becoming a precarious strech of his own supply line.

- Sir Basil H. Liddel-Hart (Strategy, 1954; on German failure in WWII)

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Today in Military History

August 22

1485:

The Battle of Bosworth Field decisively ends the War of the Roses.

1642:

Charles I calls the English Parliament traitors. Beginning of the English Civil War.

1775:

King George III declares the American colonies to be in open rebellion.

1798:

French troops land in Ireland to aid the Irish Rebellion.

1864:

Twelve nations sign the First Geneva Convention. The International Red Cross is formed.

1875:

The Treaty of St. Petersburg between Japan and Russia is ratified. Japan ceded Sakhalin to Russia in exchange for the Kuril Islands.

1910:

Japan annexes Korea.

1914:

In Belgium, British and German troops meet in battle for the first time in World War I.

1916:

Lloyd-George announces 35 Zeppelins destroyed by the Allies

1941:

German troops reach Leningrad, leading to the siege of Leningrad.

1942:

Brazil declares war on the Axis powers (Germany, Italy and Japan)

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