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“more than 300 other ships bound for Algeria steamed from anchorages on the Clyde and along England’s west coast. For all these vessels to…

— Rick Atkinson

“Shortly after sunset on November 5, the convoy began to swing east, past the Pillars of Hercules. Soon the fleet would split apart, with…

— Rick Atkinson

“more than 300 other ships bound for Algeria steamed from anchorages on the Clyde and along England’s west coast. For all these vessels to…

— Rick Atkinson

“Thus the total armada amounted to 5,333 ships and craft of all types,”

— Stephen E. Ambrose

At sea let the British their neighbors defy-The French shall have frigates to traverse the sky.

— Philip Freneau

“forces on taking sugar islands in the West Indies or besieging Gibraltar or collecting an assault force for the invasion of Britain, because the…

— Barbara W. Tuchman

“The largest contingent of invaders—drawn from the U.S. 1st Infantry and 1st Armored divisions aboard thirty-four transport ships—would storm ashore at Beach Z near…

— Rick Atkinson

At sea let the British their neighbours defy — The French shall have frigates to traverse the sky.

— Philip Freneau

“CASABLANCA provided Vichy with its best anchorage south of Toulon, and the French navy had chosen to defend the Moroccan port with valor worthy…

— Rick Atkinson

“TWO hundred and thirty nautical miles southeast of Gibraltar, Oran perched above the sea, a splinter of Europe cast onto the African shore. Of…

— Rick Atkinson

“With the sole exception of Napoleon's campaign in Egypt, every single invasion the country witnessed in its history had come from the East. Sinai,…

— Tarek Osman

Was it proof of madness in the first corps of sea officers to have, at so critical a period, launched out on the ocean…

— John Paul Jones