Written In Blood History

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"So forever in the future Shall I battle as of yore, Dying to be born a fighter But to die again once more." Patreon Further Reading/Principle Sources:Axelrod, Alan. 2006. Patton: a biography. Credits:Cover Art Credit: Courtney DiJulius Music Credit: Dario Tartagni Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

"I daresay that for every man remembered for acts of peace there are fifteen made immortal by war and since in my mind all life is a struggle to perpetuate your name, war is naturally my choice." Patreon Further Reading/Principle Sources:Axelrod, Alan. 2006. Patton: a biography. Credits:Cover Art Credit: Courtney DiJulius Music Credit: Dario Tartagni Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

"The skeleton sits forever with us at the feast. It may mean murder, it may mean abdication, but it serves always to remind us of the unexpected." Patreon Further Reading/Principle Sources:Tuchman, Barbara W. 1994. The guns of August. New York: Ballantine. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

“Somme. The whole history of the world cannot contain a more ghastly word.” Patreon Further Reading/Principle Sources:Carpenter, Humphrey. 2002. JRR Tolkien: a biography. London: HarperCollins. Credits:Cover Art Credit: Courtney DiJulius Music Credit: Dario Tartagni Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

“First you kind of laugh at it, then you read about it, and it was just horrible.” Patreon Further Reading/Principle Sources:Puleo, Stephen. 2019. Dark tide: the great Boston molasses flood of 1919. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

"I admire you for marching with your regiment; I dare say you are the only man of your rank who ever performed such a journey on foot." Patreon Further Reading/Principle Sources:Letters of hugh, earl percy, from boston and new york, 1774-1776. 2010. [Place of publication not identified]: Nabu Press. Credits:Cover Art Credit: Courtney DiJulius Music Credit: Dario Tartagni Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

“It was a big, menacing thing. It also was the scariest thing I've ever seen." Patreon Further Reading/Principle Source:http://www.gitwisters.com/gitwisters/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

"For the first time since trumpets flattened the walls of Jericho, a significant advantage was handed back to the side besieging a stoutly fortified castle." Patreon Further Reading/Principle Sources: Crowley, Roger. 2014. 1453: the Holy War for Constantinople and the clash of Islam and the West. New York: Hachette. Credits: Cover Art Credit: cjdijulius.myportfolio.com Music Credit: MIT Concert Choir Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

"He has practiced deceit and now he has had it practiced on him." Patreon Further Reading/Principle Source:Magie, David. 1921. Historia Augusta, Volume I: Hadrian. Aelius. Antoninus Pius. Marcus Aurelius. L. Verus. Avidius Cassius. Commodus. Pertinax. Didius Julianus. Septimius Severus. Pescennius Niger. Clodius Albinus. http://www.loebclassics.com/view/LCL139/1921/volume.xml. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices