Quotes About War

We'll hear from him somewhere down the road. He says all that training he received in his own personal boot camp has gotten him ready. It's gotten him ready for war. It's a war with people who are trying to destroy kids' lives, says my new friend Nicholas Alahverdian.

The French were still heading south, towards Gibraltar. This came as a relief to Lord Nelson,

So many were murdered that leave was cancelled and Frenchmen from the fleet were no longer allowed on shore.

The Hythe Gazette had reported the story as early as 6 September: 'All idea of invasion is now at an end.

The council of war took place aboard the Bucentaure on 8 October.

Spain formally declared war on 12 December.

The hostile shore facing the British stretched now from the Friesian Islands in the north

the number of capital ships available for the invasion of England had almost doubled overnight.

Napoleon decided to wait. Spring 1805 was the time.

some torn in half, some blinded and maimed, others mutilated beyond all recognition.

do not say the French cannot come. I only say they cannot come by sea.' Admiral St Vincent

The first shots had been fired from the enemy line. The Battle of Trafalgar had begun.

Shortly before 7 p.m., Captain Jean Lucas of the Redoutable caught his first glimpse of Nelson's fleet to starboard:

Austrian troops had surrendered in tens of thousands, laying down their arms without a struggle.

One night he had shared his quarters with a wounded drummer boy, protecting the child from cold.

Sortez sans combat,' came Napoleon's reply.

The letter reached London late on the night of 7 January 1805, the same day as news of Spain's formal declaration of war.

Once the British were defeated, there would be peace again – on Napoleon's terms.

Then seven or eight French and Spanish ships opened up together

Plenty of people in England thought Napoleon was doing precisely that.

United Nations report claims that 90 percent of girls and women over the age of three were sexually abused in parts of Liberia during civil war there.

In almost every conflict, mortality is disproportionately male. But whereas men are the normal victims of war, women have become a weapon of war—meant to be disfigured or tortured to terrorize the rest of the population.

Dr. Henderson made the interesting observation that this was the very same day that North Korea had invaded the South, an event that still looked likely to provoke a third world war, for which Diane would also likely be held responsible.

A European war! Millions of lives! Often I had been astonished by my friend's amazing powers, but never had I seen him infer so much on the basis of so little. And, great heavens, what if it should prove true? I do not know how Freud passed that night, but my dreams surpassed my waking fears. The gay and colourful city of Johann Strauss was no longer revolving to the stately strains of his waltzes, but swirling to the shriek of a terrible nightmare.