There's also the glimmer of a less London-centric focus, with nominations for several artists and companies based outside the capital, including Rosie Kay for her remarkable portrait of army life, 5 Soldiers.
Thongchai Jaidee, the remarkable former Thai army paratrooper who had some 60 jumps before turning pro as a 30-year-old in 1999, was also right there, as was Ross Fisher, the dynamic Wentworth pro who won the European Open at the London Golf Club in Kent early in July.
The Chinese have raised another army of remarkable dimensions, hundreds of foot-tall terra-cotta warriors, along with horses and chariots, that come from the depths of a tomb site south of Beijing.
His shell-shocked US soldier in Vietnam is deservedly celebrated, as is his remarkable shot of the army charge in Belfast with the woman shrinking back into the doorway.
The speed and efficiency of the destruction by Sherman's army was remarkable.
In either case, historians agree that the army enjoyed remarkable success during her brief time with it.
He also hosts the wildly popular World Domination Summit which attracts "an army of remarkable people" to Portland each year in a TED conference style setting combined with food and beverage tours of the local city establishments.
The Battle of Anzen is also notable for illustrating the difficulties faced by the Byzantine military of the time against horse-archers, a remarkable change from the army of the 6th 7th centuries, when such skills formed a core part of Byzantine tactical doctrine.
Despite his many defeats, Mansfeld showed remarkable success in keeping armies together and thus demonstrated the truth of his motto: "War feeds war".
As Kennett shows, the sense of restraint is all the more remarkable inasmuch as Sherman's army was run pretty much as a private army, with him its near dictator, careful to exclude reporters, commissioners and outside observers as he saw fit.
