'One if by land, and two if by sea'

Or 'By Keel and Saddle'

Through some elaborate permutations that aren’t worth recounting, research into the Battle of Kursk in 1943 and the flaws of attacking salients led me to the remarkable story of Union Army General Joseph Warren Revere (1812 — 1880).

Some of Paul Revere’s descendants. Paul I had sixteen children who lived to adulthood, so unsurprisingly there are still R…