Quotes from Charles William Chadwick Oman

Like so many other French generals in the Peninsula, he was soon to find that victory is not the same thing as conquest.

the diarist very wisely writes, "one could not be too guarded in one's conduct with such heroes."{201}

Rhodes had fallen into their hands, and the long-prostrate Colossus had been sold for old brass to a Jewish dealer, and exported to Syria to be melted down.

Every man should arm himself as quickly as he could, and come to the King.