Soldiers
- Álvaro Vaz de Almada (count of Avranches) (1390–1449) (knight of the Garter, Captain-major of Portugal, killed in battle)
- Fernando de Almada (count of Avranches) (1430–1496), Captain-major of Portugal
- Otelo Saraiva de Carvalho (born 1936) chief strategist of the Carnation Revolution of Portugal
- Aníbal Augusto Milhais (1895–1970) most decorated soldier Ordem de Torre e Espada do Valor, Lealdade e Mérito of Portugal
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Famous quotes containing the word soldiers:
“According to U.S. strategy, if you never see the other, his destruction will be more acceptable ... so that when Iraqi soldiers surrendered, sooner than expected, it was as if they emerged from a dream, a flash-back, a lost epoch—an epoch when the enemy still had a body and was still “like us.””
—Serge Daney (1944–1992)
“But that wasn’t fancy enough for Lord Byron, oh dear me no, he had to invent a lot of figures of speech and then interpolate them,
With the result that whenever you mention Old Testament soldiers to
people they say Oh yes, they’re the ones that a lot of wolves dressed up in gold and purple ate them.”
—Ogden Nash (1902–1971)
“The soldier here, as everywhere in Canada, appeared to be put forward, and by his best foot. They were in the proportion of the soldiers to the laborers in an African ant-hill.... On every prominent ledge you could see England’s hands holding the Canadas, and I judged from the redness of her knuckles that she would soon have to let go.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)