Sentences with phrase «greatest military victories»

Not exact matches

A nation that has never known anything but military victory has recently twice had to settle for a draw, not because we have really been beaten, but because our very intoxication with our own power has led us into untenable situations where the cost of «victory» became so great that it was no longer tolerable.

This man now changes the profound reality of history even though he is not a great man, a general, or a politician, and even though the apparent event of economic crisis or military victory or stability of government is in no way altered.

With the might of his colleagues and the brave military behind him, not to mention his loving and devoted wife Clementine Hozier, Churchill led his country to one of its greatest victories.

Though, of course, often victory will result from a greater or lesser percentage of both economical usage of resources and military might.

A military - minded research program is great when you're going for world domination while paying more attention to religion and the arts is key for a cultural victory.

Arthur Wellesey's victory over Napoleon at Waterloo is regarded as his greatest feat, enshrining his status as a national hero and legendary military leader.

Benjamin West's iconic painting The Death of General Wolfe (1776) depicts the death of James Wolfe, the British commander at the 1759 Battle of Quebec, one of Great Britain's most famous military victories, during what in this country is known as the French and Indian War.