Military and Naval
- John Watts (sailor) (ca.1778–1823), U.S. merchant captain from Virginia
- John Cliffe Watts (1786–1873), British military officer and colonial architect in New South Wales
- John Watts de Peyster (1821–1907), author on the art of war, philanthropist, and early Adjutant General of the New York National Guard
- John Watts de Peyster Jr. (1841–1873), Union Army officer during the American Civil War
- Philip Watts (naval architect), British naval architect
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Famous quotes containing the words military and/or naval:
“Personal prudence, even when dictated by quite other than selfish considerations, surely is no special virtue in a military man; while an excessive love of glory, impassioning a less burning impulse, the honest sense of duty, is the first.”
—Herman Melville (1819–1891)
“Yesterday, December 7, 1941Ma date that will live in infamy—the United States of America was suddenly and deliberately attacked by naval and air forces of the Empire of Japan.”
—Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882–1945)