Military Movement Quotes

Rations were scarcely issued, and the men about preparing supper, when rumors that the enemy had been encountered that day near Gettysburg absorbed every other interest, and very soon orders came to march forthwith to Gettysburg.

It is apparent that the Japanese military have initiated a widely extended movement of aggression only after careful preparation with a strategic goal in mind

I shall begin my march for Camp tomorrow morning. It was not in my power to move until I could procure shoes for the troops almost barefoot.

For me, then, territory and movement are linked. For instance, territory is controlled by the movements of horsemen, of tanks, of planes, and so on.

'Redeployment' is a military term. It means to transfer a unit from one area to another.

The British retreat is over and now the advance will begin.

We now have a literary movement. it is not very important; it will be followed by a political movement, that will not be very important; then must come a military movement, that will be important indeed

The cold passed reluctantly from the earth, and the retiring fogs revealed an army stretched out on the hills, resting. As the landscape changed from brown to green, the army awakened, and began to tremble with eagerness at the noise of rumors.

Half a league Half a league Half a league onward With a hey-nonny-nonny And a hot cha-cha.

We hereby prohibit the Passage of all Manner of People… except only the Lords and other great men of the Realm, and true and notable merchants and the Kings soldiers … out of the said Realm without the King’s special license.

What is today a matter of academic speculation begins tomorrow to move armies and pull down empires.

There is a hush over all Europe, nay, over all the world. Alas! it is the hush of suspense, and in many lands it is the hush of fear. Listen! No, listen carefully, I think I hear somethingyes, there it was quite clear. Dont you hear it? It is the tramp of armies crunching the gravel of the paradegrounds, splashing through rain-soaked fields, the tramp of two million German soldiers and more than a million Italiansgoing on maneuversyes, only on maneuvers!