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A legendary battlefield commander, Leclerc was most famous for fighting his way north with a Free French force 420 miles from Fort Lamy in Chad to join the British Eighth Army in the Sahara in February 1941.
Jean Edward Smith • Eisenhower in War and Peace
“As the kings displayed pride and rigor in their commands, the greater part of the Greeks took away their power, and left them only the care of religion.”465
Numa Denis Fustel de Coulanges • The Ancient City: A Study of the Religion, Laws, and Institutions of Greece and Rome (Illustrated)
Pompey the Great
Mary Beard • SPQR
Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck,
Max Boot • Invisible Armies
Kesselring, with sixty thousand troops, had held back two Allied armies for thirty-eight days, inflicting twenty thousand casualties at a cost of twelve thousand.48
Jean Edward Smith • Eisenhower in War and Peace
The rebelling Iceni and Trinovantes, led by the warrior queen, laid waste to Camulodunum (modern Colchester), the first capital of the Roman province of Britannia. Meanwhile, Gaius Suetonius Paulinus, the Roman governor of Britain, was campaigning in Anglesey, targeting the Druids, who were perhaps even more powerful and influential than Celtic
... See moreAlice Roberts • The Celts: Search for a Civilization
