Military
- Halifax Regiment (Duke of Wellington's)
- Handley Page Halifax, a British bomber plane during World War II
- Halifax-class frigate, of the Canadian Navy
- HMCS Halifax, the name of two Canadian naval vessels
- HMCS Halifax (FFH 330), the lead ship of the Halifax class
- HMCS Halifax (K237), a World War II Flower class corvette for convoy escort duties
- HMS Halifax, the name of several Royal Navy ships
- HMS Halifax (1756), a 22-gun sloop launched in 1756 and captured by the French in the same year at Oswego
- HMS Halifax (1768), a 10-gun schooner originally built for merchant service at Halifax, Nova Scotia in 1765. Purchased in 1768 by the British Royal Navy and wrecked in 1775
- HMS Halifax (1775), a schooner purchased in 1775 and sold 1780
- HMS Halifax (1780), an 18-gun sloop, originally USS Ranger, *renamed after the ship was captured from the United States Navy on 11 May 1780, and sold in 1781
- HMS Halifax (1782), a 10-gun schooner purchased in 1782 and sold in 1784
- HMS Halifax (1806), an 18-gun sloop launched in 1806 at Halifax, Nova Scotia and broken up in 1814
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Famous quotes containing the word military:
““My ancestors were all famous for military genius.”
My Lady smiled graciously. “It often runs in families,” she remarked: “just as a love for pastry does.””
—Lewis Carroll [Charles Lutwidge Dodgson] (1832–1898)
“I would sincerely regret, and which never shall happen whilst I am in office, a military guard around the President.”
—Andrew Jackson (1767–1845)
“Who are we? And for what are we going to fight? Are we the titled slaves of George the Third? The military conscripts of Napoleon the Great? Or the frozen peasants of the Russian Czar? No—we are the free born sons of America; the citizens of the only republic now existing in the world; and the only people on earth who possess rights, liberties, and property which they dare call their own.”
—Andrew Jackson (1767–1845)