Backpacking Quote by Lost LeBlanc

“In France, the war created 600,000 widows and left nearly one million children fatherless. In England three men were killed in World War I…

— Joseph E. Persico

“Introduced by de Gaulle to protect France’s ‘vital interests’, when there was a possibility that Britain would use it, the French wanted it abolished.”

— Christopher Booker

“fair face, on the throne of France. In both countries it was clearer than crystal to the lords of the State preserves of loaves…

— Charles Dickens

“When the war was over and the British returned in 1945, there were less than 600,000. A million people dead or gone. Nearly two…

— A.G. Riddle

“People forgot the fragility of our enterprise as a new nation, and sometimes forgot, too, how much we owed France for it.”

— Stephanie Dray

“the American Colonies. The Seven Years' War left England”

— William Roscoe Thayer

“What’s this war called again?” “The Hundred Years War.” “Hmmmm, got a bad feeling about this one.”

— Karl Wiggins

“What are the present governments of Europe, but a scene of iniquity and oppression? What is that of England? Do not its own inhabitants…

— Thomas Paine

“on the throne of France. In both countries it was clearer than crystal to the lords of the State preserves of loaves and fishes,…

— Charles Dickens

“Ninety-three" was the war of Europe against France, and of France against Paris. And what was the Revolution? It was the victory of France…

— Victor Hugo

Let me give you an idea of Fifties Britain. The war had ended ten years before, and most people had returned to their gardens…

— Mary Quant

“The war between England and Scotland was in its eighth year and there had been no raid for ten days: it had seemed possible…

— Dorothy Dunnett