"Do you wish an invincible, unconquerable regiment? Then
organize it, administer it, train it, and fight it . . . with a
pride that scoffs at danger. Inspire it with a soul of
intrepidity and honor and make it to know that its defeat is
impossible, that it may be killed but that it cannot be
conquered. |--||Col. Ulysses Grant McAlexander,| 30th Infantry,
1917 - The 73 British warships and 370 transports and cargo
vessels that sailed into New York harbor in July of 1776,
constituted the largest fleet ever to cross the Atlantic until
World War II, and comprised 45-percent of the maritime resources
of the British Empire at the time. - The famed Mihail
Tukhachevsky, boy genius of the Red Army and founder of its
armored forces, was arguably the heir of the Medieval Counts of
Flanders, which perhaps explains why he was purged by Stalin in
1937, - Internal explosions accounted for nearly one-sixth of
the battleships and battlecruisers sunk during World War I, six
of 36 vessels. - During the mid-eighteenth century, 5