British Army
During the ground phase, the British 1st Armoured Division took part in the gigantic right-hook which outflanked Iraqi forces. British Challenger tanks destroyed approximately 300 Iraqi vehicles, including achieving the longest-range tank-kill in history. A friendly fire incident, when an American Fairchild Republic A-10A Thunderbolt aircraft attacked two British Warrior vehicles, resulted in the deaths of nine British service personnel.
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“However British you may be, I am more British still.”
—Henry James (1843–1916)
“I was interested to see how a pioneer lived on this side of the country. His life is in some respects more adventurous than that of his brother in the West; for he contends with winter as well as the wilderness, and there is a greater interval of time at least between him and the army which is to follow. Here immigration is a tide which may ebb when it has swept away the pines; there it is not a tide, but an inundation, and roads and other improvements come steadily rushing after.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)