Infinite Wisdom

"The battle is lost, but there is time to win another."

--	Louis Charles Desaix, at Marengo, June 14, 1800, where he was killed

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• More than 60 years after the 1942-1943 campaign in their country, Tunisians still dig up about about 50 unexploded shells, bombs, and mines each month.


• In 1813 the American privateer Thomas, an armed schooner, took two British ships that together yielded $92,246.36 in prize, so that even the lowest ranking member of the crew was awarded nearly $800, over four years’ pay for a common unskilled worker.


• During the nineteenth century Austria engaged in 21 wars that lasted a total of 25 years, for an average duration of just 0.8 years per war.


• Although during the Revolutionary War the Continental Army was more open to talent that any of its day, it appears that fewer than 2-percent of American officers were former enlisted men.


• A U.S. Army private serving in Mexico in 1846-1848 earned $7 a month and one ration a day, while a teamster with the army received $25 a month and 1½ rations a day.


• While commanding the Alcazar of Toledo in the summer of 1936, closely besieged siege by Spanish Republican troops and militiamen, Col. Jose Moscardo was approached by an officer who demanded better rations, whereupon he handed the man a 50-peseta note and said "Take this, go outside and buy something if you like!"


• In the eighteenth century Prussian males were required to register for military service at the age of 10.


• On a average, between 1765 and 1793, 21½-percent of the crewmen in the Royal Navy were flogged each year, with the mean number of lashes being 5, though only 19-percent of the men serving under the ill-famed Capt. William Bligh were flogged, for a mean of only 1½ lashes.

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