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They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old
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I levelled the city and its houses from the foundations to the top, I destroyed them, and I consumed them with fire. I tore down and removed the outer and inner walls, the temples and ziggurats built of brick, and dumped the rubble in the Arahtu canal. And after I destroyed Babylon, smashed its gods and massacred its population, I tore up its soil and threw it into the Euphrates so that it was carried by the river down to the sea
- Sennacherib of Assyria, 680 BC
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May 2
1885: Infantry School Corps in action, Cutknife Creek, Northwest Rebellion
1945: Berlin surrenders to the Allies
1952: POCHON-NI, effective dates for battle honour begin (to 3 May 53)
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