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Best Battle Quote? - 2/23/2003 11:52:32 PM

Cap Mandrake

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Nominate the best quote by a General, political leader or soldier before, during or after a battle.

***England expects every man to do his duty.....Nelson/Trafalgar

***Nuts...........Gen McAuliff 101st Airborne, Bastogne

***In order to make an omelette, one must break a few eggs.....Napolean

***War is Hell.................W T Sherman

***Too bad....................R E Lee after Pickett's failed attack at Gettysburg

And then, of course, there is Winston Churchill

http://www.winstonchurchill.org/

I'm sure everyone has their favorites
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- 2/24/2003 12:54:56 AM

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"Veni, vidi, vici" - Julius Caesar on returning from his victory at Zela. The soul of wit is brevity.

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- 2/24/2003 3:09:39 AM

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King Henry V: Once more into the breach, dear friends, once more; or close the wall up with our English dead!

Shakespeare.

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- 2/24/2003 6:19:22 AM

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[QUOTE]Don't be a fool and die for your country. Let the other sonofabitch die for his. --George S. Patton[/QUOTE]

John

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- 2/24/2003 11:18:29 PM

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"First Sergeant! Tell the men I said 'No prisoners!'"

George Armstrong Custer, Battler of the Little Bighorn

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- 2/25/2003 12:10:36 AM

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"Ceterum censeo Carthaginem esse delendam!"
(Apart from that I think Cartago should be destroyed!)

- Marcus Porcius Cato, Roman senator 234 - 149 B.C.

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- 2/25/2003 9:55:12 PM

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[QUOTE]Originally posted by rockymtndoc
[B]"First Sergeant! Tell the men I said 'No prisoners!'"

George Armstrong Custer, Battler of the Little Bighorn [/B][/QUOTE]

Did he really say that? Is there any truth to the rumor that later in the battle he said "Holy He11, where did all these G** D*** Indians come from?"

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Re: Best Battle Quote? - 3/4/2003 11:47:23 AM

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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Cap Mandrake
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***In order to make an omelette, one must break a few eggs.....Napolean

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I thought Vladimir Lenin said that?

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- 3/4/2003 12:35:33 PM

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thats not much of a quote

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