"If only we could tell our fallen that the battle had been won."
- Among the dignitaries invited to the German Army maneuvers of
1909 was Winston S. Churchill, who attended in his uniform as a
major in the Queen's Own Oxfordshire Hussars, a yeomanry
regiment, and who was photographed shaking hands with Kaiser
Wilhelm II. - From mid-1944, the “battle rhythm” for a typical
U.S. aircraft carrier was normally about three days of offensive
operations followed by one or two days of replenishment. - While
helping to plan the Anglo-French expedition to the Crimea in
1853, general de division François Certain Canrobert reportedly
met several times with Baron Antoine-Henri Jomini at the Café
Anglais in Paris to discuss strategy. - During World War I,
casualties among lieutenants who were commissioned from West
Point averaged 195 per thousand men engaged, as against 30.3 for
officers commissioned by other means. - In 1742, some 3,000 of
the 6,620 seamen crewing the Royal Navy squadron in the
Caribbean were incapacitated