Honourable Corps of Gentlemen at Arms - Battle Honours

Famous quotes containing the words battle and/or honours:

“A battle won is a battle which we will not acknowledge to be lost.”
—Ferdinand Foch (1851–1929)

“Come hither, all ye empty things,
Ye bubbles rais’d by breath of Kings;
Who float upon the tide of state,
Come hither, and behold your fate.
Let pride be taught by this rebuke,
How very mean a thing’s a Duke;
From all his ill-got honours flung,
Turn’d to that dirt from whence he sprung.”
—Jonathan Swift (1667–1745)