“Sir, give me a single battalion of the Royal Carabineers and I will drive these upstarts into the sea.”

Quoted in "The Civilizing Mission" - Page 232 - by A. J. Barker - 1968

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Italian general during both World Wars and a Prime Minister… 1871–1956

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