Northern War

Northern War may refer to:

  • Northern Wars (1655–1660)
  • Great Northern War (1700-1721)
  • Flagstaff War (1845–1846)
  • War in the North (1937)

Famous quotes containing the words northern and/or war:

    “Warmest climes but nurse the cruelest fangs: the tiger of Bengal crouches in spiced groves of ceaseless verdure. Skies the most effulgent but basket the deadliest thunders: gorgeous Cuba knows tornadoes that never swept tame northern lands.”
    —Herman Melville (1819–1891)

    “In a war everybody always knows all about Switzerland, in peace times it is just Switzerland but in war time it is the only country that everybody has confidence in, everybody.”
    —Gertrude Stein (1874–1946)