World War I
In September 1916, following an attack on St Albans, the German Airship SL 11 became the first airship to be brought down over England.
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Famous quotes containing the words war i, world and/or war:
“... near a war it is always not very near.”
—Gertrude Stein (1874–1946)
“Trust me, my dear Eugenius ... “there are worse occupations in this world than feeling a woman’s pulse.””
—Laurence Sterne (1713–1768)
“Then think I thus: sith such repair,
So long time war of valiant men,
Was all to win a lady fair,
Shall I not learn to suffer then,
And think my life well spent to be,
Serving a worthier wight than she?”
—Henry Howard, Earl Of Surrey (1517?–1547)