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SOME FAMOUS MILITARY MESSAGES.
Of famous military messages there are scores beginning with the never-to-be-forgotten «' Veni, vidi, vici" of Caesar, and that equally famous dispatch of Commodore Perry, "We have met the enemy and they are ours " ; but both were beaten for brevity by General Sir Robert Boyd, who, while Governor of Gibraltar, being in need of beef for his troops, wrote to the agent in England this laooniG dispatch: " Browne, beef, Boyd." Browne sent the stores with the reply : " Boyd, beef> Browne."
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Kaipara and Waitemata Echo, 14 June 1917, Page 3
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83SOME FAMOUS MILITARY MESSAGES. Kaipara and Waitemata Echo, 14 June 1917, Page 3
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