Operation Amherst was a Free French SAS attack designed to capture intact Dutch canals, bridges and airfields during World War II. It was led by brigadier Mike Calvert of Chindit fame.
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“Human knowledge and human power meet in one; for where the cause is not known the effect cannot be produced. Nature to be commanded must be obeyed; and that which in contemplation is as the cause is in operation as the rule.”
—Francis Bacon (1560–1626)