Battle Honours
- Ushant 1778 & 1781
- St Lucia 1796
- Curacoa 1807
- Black Sea 1854
- China 1900
- Heligoland 1914
- Dogger Bank 1915
- Norway 1940-41
- Malta Convoys 1941-42
- Normandy 1944
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Famous quotes containing the words battle and/or honours:
“the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither
yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches to men of understanding, nor yet
favour to men of skill; but time and chance happeneth to them all.”
—Bible: Hebrew Ecclesiastes (l. IX, 11)
“Vain men delight in telling what Honours have been done them, what great Company they have kept, and the like; by which they plainly confess, that these Honours were more than their Due, and such as their Friends would not believe if they had not been told: Whereas a Man truly proud, thinks the greatest Honours below his Merit, and consequently scorns to boast. I therefore deliver it as a Maxim that whoever desires the Character of a proud Man, ought to conceal his Vanity.”
—Jonathan Swift (1667–1745)