Famous quotes containing the words army and/or officers:
“Like an army defeated
The snow hath retreated,”
—William Wordsworth (1770–1850)
“I then went to the Parade. I saw the King. It was a glorious sight.... As a loadstone moves needles, or a storm bows the lofty oaks, did Frederick the Great make the Prussian officers submissive bend as he walked majestic in the midst of them.”
—James Boswell (1740–1795)