John Drawbaugh

“I prayed the Lord to have mercy on his soul, and then took care of his body.”
― Rick Atkinson, The Fate of the Day: The War for America, Fort Ticonderoga to Charleston, 1777-1780

“This would eventually become the Dolchstosslegende, the ‘stab in the back’ myth, that would help lay the groundwork for the seizure of power by Adolf Hitler and the National Socialists, who vowed to avenge the defeat of 1918 and bury for ever the memory of the ‘November criminals’. The claim that the German Army had not been defeated in 1918 was readily grasped by those who had been raised on the invincibility of Prussian arms”
― Nick Lloyd, The Western Front: A History of the Great War, 1914-1918

“Yea, and if some god shall wreck me in the wine-dark deep, even so I will endure…For already have I suffered full much, and much have I toiled in perils of waves and war. Let this be added to the tale of those. —Homer”
― Pierce Brown, Light Bringer

“Every particle of my blood,” Rush wrote, “is electrified with revenge.”
― Rick Atkinson, The British Are Coming: The War for America, Lexington to Princeton, 1775-1777