"Give me 20 divisions American soldiers and I will beach Europe . Give
me 15 consisting of Englishmen, and I will advance to the borders of
Berlin . Give me two divisions of those marvelous fighting Boers
(Meaning Farmer, originating from the
<http://www.geocities.com/pentagon/6638/say.htm#%23> Boer War) and I
will remove Germany from the face of the earth."
Field Marshall Bernard L. Montgomery, Commander of the Allied forces
during WWII.
"The Americans fight for a free world, the English mostly for honor and
glory and medals, the French and Canadians decide too late that they
have to participate. The Italians are too scared to fight; the Russians
have no choice. The Germans for the Fatherland. The Boers? Those sons of
bitches fight for the hell of it!"
- American General, George "Guts and Glory" Patton -
"Take a community of Dutchman of the type of those who defended
themselves for fifty years against all the power of Spain at a time when
Spain was the greatest power in the world. Intermix with them a strain
of those inflexible French Huguenots, who gave up their name and left
their country forever at the time of the revocation of the Edict of
Nantes . The product must obviously be one of the most rugged, virile,
unconquerable races ever seen upon the face of the earth. Take these
formidable people and train them for seven generations in constant
warfare against savage men and ferocious beasts, in circumstances in
which no weakling could survive; place them so that they acquire skill
with weapons and in horsemanship, give them a country which is
immanently suited to the tactics of the huntsman, the marksman and the
rider. Then, finally, put a fine temper upon their military qualities by
a dour fatalistic Old Testament religion and an ardent and consuming
patriotism. Combine all these qualities and all these impulses in one
individual and you have the modern Boer."
- Sir Arthur Conan Doyle -
(And for those who don't know, he wrote the Sherlock Holmes stories)
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