The ceremony concluded with a unique flypast, a Typhoon and Spitfire together, referencing the Battle of Britain pilots defending Britain from invasion 75 years ago, and today's Quick Reaction Eurofighter Typhoons.
The new campaign logo references the Battle of Bannockburn, Stirling Castle and the River Forth.
There he addressed a gathering of some 200 people and told them: "People of Jenin, all the citizens of Jenin and the refugee camp, this is Jenin-grad" - a reference to the battle of Stalingrad in the second world war.
The Scottish secretary, the MP for the Borders constituency of Berwickshire, Roxburgh and Selkirk, opened his speech with a reference to the battle of Flodden in 1513, the largest battle between Scottish and English forces, which ended in defeat and death for the Scottish king James IV. Moore insisted he regarded himself as a proud Borderer, a Scot, but someone who is equally British.
For many critics, Trump's use of the mass killing at Wounded Knee — along with his reference to the Battle of the Little Bighorn, where hundreds of U.S. soldiers and American Indians died in Gen. George Armstrong Custer's infamous last stand in 1876 — took his Warren attacks to a new level.
Under Małachowski's right hand there is a figure with a bandaged head holding a flag; this is Tadeusz Kościuszko (4), and his head wound is a reference to the battle of Maciejowice, which took place during the Kościuszko Uprising in 1794, three years after the event depicted in the painting.
Not only was the reference to Pocahontas insulting, as people have complained repeatedly, but the casual reference to Wounded Knee — and the Battle of Little Bighorn — as part of a disdainful joke astounded many.
"It was here in Providence that French forces gathered that would march to Yorktown and defeat the British," he said, referencing the final battle of the Revolutionary War as he held a glass of the wine high.
Steven Elop, the CEO of Nokia at the time, had a famous quote, which I referenced in my book Modern Monopolies: "The battle of devices has now become a war of ecosystems".
Some held signs reading "Americans united against government thugs," while others were calling the rally the "Battle of Bunkerville," a reference to a American Revolutionary War battle of Bunker Hill in Boston.
