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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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May 7
1867: VC won by Dr (Asst-Surg) Campbell Mallis Douglas, 24th (Warwickshire) Regiment of Foot (British Army), Island of Little Andaman, The Burma Campaign
1915: Lusitania torpedoed, 1198 lost
1945: Unconditional surrender of all German forces to the Allies, signed at Eisenhower's HQ at Rhiems
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