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They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old
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I levelled the city and its houses from the foundations to the top, I destroyed them, and I consumed them with fire. I tore down and removed the outer and inner walls, the temples and ziggurats built of brick, and dumped the rubble in the Arahtu canal. And after I destroyed Babylon, smashed its gods and massacred its population, I tore up its soil and threw it into the Euphrates so that it was carried by the river down to the sea
- Sennacherib of Assyria, 680 BC
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January 31
1862: The Black Watch (Royal Highland Regiment) of Canada is organized as the 5th Battalion, Volunteer Militia Rifles, Canada
1862: The Black Watch (Royal Highland Regiment) of Canada: Nemu me Impune Lacessit (No one provokes me with impunity)
1919: The Minister of Militia and Defence approves of Major-General Otter\'s Committee recommendations for the reorganization of the Militia of Canada
1945: The Battle of Kangaw - 42 Cdo RM
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