
History of the Thirty Years War - Volume II
Attitude of the Imperial/League army after the protestant victory at Brietenfeld.
The Thirty Years War
Boule de Suif (1880)
Context: For several days in succession fragments of a defeated army had passed through the town. They were mere disorganized bands, not disciplined forces. The men wore long, dirty beards and tattered uniforms; they advanced in listless fashion, without a flag, without a leader. All seemed exhausted, worn out, incapable of thought or resolve, marching onward merely by force of habit, and dropping to the ground with fatigue the moment they halted.
History of the Thirty Years War - Volume II
Attitude of the Imperial/League army after the protestant victory at Brietenfeld.
The Thirty Years War
“I moved through the days like a severed head that finishes a sentence.”
“An army which cannot be reenforced is already defeated.”
Napoleon : In His Own Words (1916)
Berlin: Hitler’s Order of the Day Calling for Invasion of Yugoslovia and Greece http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/adolf-hitler-order-of-the-day-calling-for-invasion-of-yugoslovia-and-greece-april-1941 (April 6, 1941)
1940s
"The Diamond As Big As The Ritz"
Quoted, Tales of the Jazz Age (1922)
About the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine
Source: A Soldier's Story (1951), p. 488.
Feng Shih-kuan (2017) cited in " PRC missiles aimed at Taiwan: MND http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/front/archives/2017/03/21/2003667164" on Taipei Times, 21 March 2017