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"Once the mass of the defending infantry become possessed of low moral, the battle is as good as lost."

Douglas Haig, British Soldier

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"Once the mass of the defending infantry become possessed of low moral, the battle is as good as lost."

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"So long as the opposing forces are at the outset approximately equal in numbers and moral and there are no flanks to turn, a long struggle for supremacy is inevitable."

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