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They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old
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After we have thought out everything carefully in advance and have sought and found without prejudice the most plausible plan, we must not be ready to abandon it at the slightest provocation. Should this certainty be lacking, we must tell ourselves that nothing is accomplished in warfare without daring; that the nature of war certainly does not let us see at all times where we are going; that what is probable will always be probable though at the moment it may not seem so; and finally, that we cannot be readily ruined by a single error, if we have made reasonable preparations.
- Karl von Clausewitz
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June 1
1879: Eugene, Prince Imperial of France, killed in the Zulu campaign
1915: Lord Kitchener made a K.G.
1917: Since beginning of the war, British have taken 76,067 prisoners on the Western front
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