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First let us rid our minds of the fallacy that guerrilla war is a wholly distinct thing in kind from regular war. It is nothing of the sort. War is a science whose fundamental principles are constant however wide or numerous the variations....

— Robert Erskine Childers Literary Years and War (1900)

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The treaty, though it has good points, is a vast trap.

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The cavalryman, is for practical purposes a compound of three factors; man, horse and rifle. The lance should go altogether.

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I am a birth, domicile, and deliberate choice of citizenship an Irishman...

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Lieutenant Colonel Malone––was it necessary, in order to carry out the raid, to-ransack the nursery, and to wake up the children?

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Take a step or two forward lads.....it will be easier that way.

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