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Posted By: akenaton
29-Dec-15 - 06:56 PM
Thread Name: History and mythology of WW1
Subject: RE: History and mythology of WW1
Quotations from famous Scots.

"Every position must be held to the last man: there must be no retirement. With our backs to the wall, and believing in the justice of our cause, each one of us must fight to the end."

Field Marshall Earl Haig, Order of the Day, 12 April 1918. Douglas Haig was born in Edinburgh in 1861.