Xhosa Wars/fourth War 1811-1812

Famous quotes containing the words wars, fourth and/or war:

    “Probably the battle of Waterloo was won on the playing-fields of Eton, but the opening battles of all subsequent wars have been lost there.”
    —George Orwell (1903–1950)

    “The British are a self-distrustful, diffident people, agreeing with alacrity that they are neither successful nor clever, and only modestly claiming that they have a keener sense of humour, more robust common sense, and greater staying power as a nation than all the rest of the world put together.”
    —Quoted in Fourth Leaders from the Times (1950)

    “It is a war against the pines, the only real Aroostook or Penobscot war.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)