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Sure I am this day we are masters of our fate, that the task which has been set before us is not above our strength; that its pangs and toils are not beyond our endurance. As long as we have faith in our own cause and an unconquerable will to win, victory will not be denied us.

- Winston Churchill

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Subject Matter Expert, the person who has the course, expertise, been there, done that (see BTDT) and has the T-Shirt. The guy that knows what he's talking about.


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Today in Military History

September 7



1191:

Third Crusade: Battle of Arsuf - Richard I of England defeats Saladin at Arsuf.


1812:

Napoleonic Wars: Battle of Borodino - Napoleon defeats the Russian army of Alexander I near the village of Borodino.


1864:

American Civil War: Atlanta, Georgia, is evacuated on orders of Union General William Tecumseh Sherman.


1901:

The Boxer Rebellion in China officially ends with the signing of the Peking Protocol.


1939:

Introduction of Atlantic convoys


1940:

Beginning of the London blitz


1940:

World War II: The Blitz - Nazi Germany begins to rain bombs on London. This will be the first of 57 consecutive nights of bombing.


1942:

While escorting convoy QS-22 up the St. Lawerence river to the open sea, the armed yacht HMCS RACOON is struck by a torpedo from U-165. There are no survivors.




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