
“[T]he navy performed its part of the operations.”
Source: 1880s, Incidents and Anecdotes of the Civil War (1885), p. 214
Source: 1880s, Incidents and Anecdotes of the Civil War (1885), p. 212
“[T]he navy performed its part of the operations.”
Source: 1880s, Incidents and Anecdotes of the Civil War (1885), p. 214
On a heroine in Tales of the South Pacific (1947) in Commercial Appeal (31 December 1951)
Source: Introduction, p. viii note: 1950s, Fleet Admiral King: A Naval Record (1952)
“The British Army should be a projectile to be fired by the British Navy.”
Quoted by Admiral 'Jacky' Fisher in Memories p.18 https://archive.org/stream/memoriesbyadmira00fishuoft#page/18/mode/1up (1919).
Speech in Parliament (January 15, 1855), reported in Hansard's Parliamentary Debates, Third Series, vol. cxxxviii. p. 2077; this can be contrasted witho Sydney Smith's statement "The officer and the office, the doer and the thing done, seldom fit so exactly that we can say they were almost made for each other" in Sketches of Moral Philosophy (1806).
Letter to French Laurence (12 May 1797) after hearing of the mutinies in the Royal Navy, quoted in R. B. McDowell (ed.), The Correspondence of Edmund Burke, Volume IX: May 1796–July 1797 (Cambridge University Press, 1970), p. 333
1790s
Source: The Right to Be Happy (1927), p. 241
“Can the Army win the war before the Navy loses it?”
The World Crisis, Vol 3, 1916-1918, Part I (1927), Churchill, Thornton Butterworth (London), p. 283.
“It is not possible to foretell the reaction of certain elements in the Army and Navy.”
Quoted in "The Decision to Drop the Atomic Bomb" - Page 107 - by Dennis Wainstock - History - 1996.
“Russia has only two allies: the Army and the Navy.”
Source: Book of memories Appendix to Illustrated Russia for 1933 by Alexander Mikhailovich http://www.rummuseum.ru/lib_a/al_mih05.php