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Illustrations of history

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago

I can’t imagine the soldiers would be too motivated to be the first ones at the top

iirc they said of Frederick the Great's army that the soldiers were more afraid of the officers behind them than the enemy in front of them.