War
Two naval battles of the Anglo-Dutch Wars are called the Battle of the North Foreland after the cape:
- The Battle of the Gabbard, June 2 to June 3, 1653, in the First Anglo-Dutch War.
- The St. James's Day Battle, July 25 to July 26, 1666, in the Second Anglo-Dutch War.
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Famous quotes containing the word war:
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—Lyndon Baines Johnson (1908–1973)
“Their bodies are buried in peace; but their name liveth for evermore.”
—Apocrypha. Ecclesiasticus, 44:14.
The line “their name liveth for evermore” was chosen by Rudyard Kipling on behalf of the Imperial War Graves Commission as an epitaph to be used in Commonwealth War Cemeteries. Kipling had himself lost a son in the fighting.
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—Stephen Crane (1871–1900)