...Alexander the Great said that his greatest victory was his success at solving the puzzle of the Gordian Knot.

...Julius Caesar believed that people needed one strong ruler in order to have maximum production and proper function of a society.

...when the Persians said to the Spartan king Leonid before a battle that they were so numerous that their arrows would bloke out the sun, Leonid answered, "Then we shall fight in the shade".

...that the early Spartans believed helmets were unnecessary and boxing prepared them for the inevitable blows to the head they would receive in battle.

...the first tank in the world to be fitted with an automatic loader was the Soviet T-64.

...the only tank in the world to feature a front-mounted power pack is Israeli Merkava.

...it is said that when when Alexander the Great saw the breadth of his domain, he wept... for there were no more lands to conquer.

...the general Hannibal of Carthage was nicknamed Father of Strategy, and his march over the Alps is one of the most famous attacks in military history.

...Alexander the Great usually slept with Homer and his sword under his pillow.

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