"Lads, sharpen your swords!"
|--||Augustus Charles Hobart-Hampden, |
- During the 1982 Falklands War, British Harrier fighter aircraft brought down 24 Argentine aircraft using missiles and eight with cannon fire.
- At the onset of the seventeenth century a soldier in one of Spain’s famed tercios received a daily ration of two pounds of bread, a pound of meat, and a botella of wine, more than a half-gallon.
- Between the outbreak of World War I in 1914 and its end in 1918, the number of machine guns in the Imperial German Army increased by 512.8 percent, from about 1,500 to about 80,000.
- HMS Wellesley, a 74-gun ship launched in 1815, was the last ship-of-the-line to be lost in action, when she succumbed to a Luftwaffe bomb while serving as a receiving ship in 1940.
- Admiral Raymond A. Spruance, victor in the Battle of Midway, had a taste for raw onions.
- Austria, Hungary, and the other Hapsburg lands were at war 161 of the 300 years from 1600 to 1900.
- In 1243 King Henry III of England issued what appears to have been first commission as a privateer, to Adam Bobernotter and William LeSauvage, with instructions that they “grieve” the French sea and land.