据说福尔柯克战役(298年)第一次证明了长弓的决定性作用,爱德华一世军战败了苏格兰人。
At the Battle of Falkirk (298), said to be the first battle in which the longbow proved decisive, the troops of Edward I defeated the Scots. Population, 37,800.
直到1697年的法国战争,威廉三世才说服国会建立一支专业的常备军,而国会这样做的代价是将军队置于严格的立法控制之下。
Not until the war France in 1697 did William III persuade Parliament to create a professional standing army, and Parliaments price for doing so was to keep the army under tight legislative control.
陆军、海军和海军陆战队在20世纪40年代进行试验,看这些会飞的哺乳动物能否被用于在日本各地燃起数百万的炮火。
The Army, the Navy and the Marine Corps conducted experiments in the 1940s to see if the flying mammals could be used to start millions of fires across Japan.
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