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British Soldiers Quotes

The British soldiers are fellows who have all enlisted for drink. That is the plain fact - they have all enlisted for drink.

The British soldiers are fellows who have all enlisted for drink. That is the plain fact - they have all enlisted for drink.

Duke of Wellington
War, British Soldiers, Facts

There is not a single injustice in Northern Ireland that is worth the loss of a single British soldier or a single Irish citizen either.

James Callaghan
Loss, British Soldiers, Citizens

The British soldier who thought himself superior, actually became so.

John Graves Simcoe
British Soldiers, Soldier, British
John Graves Simcoe (1844). “Simcoe's military journal”, p.15, Рипол Классик

A few regular troops from old France, weakened by hunger and sickness, who, when fresh, were unable to withstand the British soldiers, are their general's chief dependence.

James Wolfe
Air, British Soldiers, Troops

The British soldier can stand up to anything except the British War Office.

George Bernard Shaw
Witty, War, British Soldiers
The Devil's Disciple (1901) act 3

Technically it was a victory for the British, who attacked the patriot fortifications but a Pyrrhic victory if ever there was: out of 2,200 British soldiers 1,034 were killed or wounded, including one in nine of all the officers the British lost in the whole war.

Geoffrey Wheatcroft
War, British Soldiers, Victory

Come you back, you British soldier; come you back to Mandalay!

Rudyard Kipling
British Soldiers, Soldier, British
'Mandalay' (1892)

No matter what the cause was and wherever it was, Indian governments must never requisition the services of British soldiers to deal with civil disturbances.

Mahatma Gandhi
Government, British Soldiers, Matter
Mahatma Gandhi (1983). “Collected Works”

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