Battle
See Brandywine order of battle for a detailed list of the regiments and organizations of both armies.Read more about this topic: Battle Of Brandywine
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“The mother’s battle for her child—with sickness, with poverty, with war, with all the forces of exploitation and callousness that cheapen human life—needs to become a common human battle, waged in love and in the passion for survival.”
—Adrienne Rich (20th century)
“Oh, who will now be able to relate how Pantagruel behaved in face of these three hundred giants! Oh my muse, my Calliope, my Thalie, inspire me now, restore my spirits, because here is the ass’s bridge of logic, here is the pitfall, here is the difficulty of being able to describe the horrible battle undertaken.”
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“That civilisation may not sink,
Its great battle lost,”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)