Bill Alexander - Military

Military

  • William Alexander (Canadian soldier) (1880–1917), World War I soldier executed for desertion
  • William Melville Alexander (1897–1988), Canadian World War I flying ace
  • William Alexander, Lord Stirling (1726–1783), American Revolutionary War soldier

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Famous quotes containing the word military:

    “I would sincerely regret, and which never shall happen whilst I am in office, a military guard around the President.”
    —Andrew Jackson (1767–1845)

    “In all sincerity, we offer to the loved ones of all innocent victims over the past 25 years, abject and true remorse. No words of ours will compensate for the intolerable suffering they have undergone during the conflict.”
    —Combined Loyalist Military Command. New York Times, p. A12 (October 14, l994)

    “The military mind is indeed a menace. Old-fashioned futurity that sees only men fighting and dying in smoke and fire; hears nothing more civilized than a cannonade; scents nothing but the stink of battle-wounds and blood.”
    —Sean O’Casey (1884–1964)