Napoleonic Wars/gunboat War 1807-1814

Famous quotes containing the words wars and/or war:

    We have to have wars now and then just to prove we’re top dog.
    Reginald Berkeley (1890–1935)

    Superstition, bigotry and prejudice, ghosts though they are, cling tenaciously to life; they are shades armed with tooth and claw. They must be grappled with unceasingly, for it is a fateful part of human destiny that it is condemned to wage perpetual war against ghosts. A shade is not easily taken by the throat and destroyed.
    Victor Hugo (1802–1885)