List of Battles Before 601

Famous quotes containing the words list of, list and/or battles:

    “Shea—they call him Scholar Jack—
    Went down the list of the dead.
    Officers, seamen, gunners, marines,
    The crews of the gig and yawl,
    The bearded man and the lad in his teens,
    Carpenters, coal-passers—all.”
    —Joseph I. C. Clarke (1846–1925)

    “The advice of their elders to young men is very apt to be as unreal as a list of the hundred best books.”
    —Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. (1841–1935)

    “Have you heard that it was good to gain the day?
    I also say it is good to fall, battles are lost in the same spirit in which they are won.”
    —Walt Whitman (1819–1892)