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Defeat is inevitable as soon as the hope of conquering ceases to exist. Success comes not to him who has suffered the least but to him whose will is firmest and morale strongest.”
“Eliminate the red trousers?” he cried. “Never! Le pantalon rouge c’est la France!”
With a certain optimism, he added, “and eventually to restore the neutrality of Belgium”—a project comparable to restoring virginity.
The Times of London had said Namur would withstand a siege of six months; it had fallen in four days.
As the sale of vodka was a state monopoly, this act at one stroke cut off a third of the government’s income.
“but never since the dawn of history has a country in time of war renounced the principal source of its revenue.”
the known dead per capita of population were 1 to 28 for France, 1 to 32 for Germany, 1 to 57 for England and 1 to 107 for Russia.
