Book Review: The Lion at Dawn: Forging British Strategy in the Age of the French Revolution, 1783–1797 Archives by Nathaniel Jarrett Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2022. Pp. xii, 325. Maps, ...

“A military parade is really a kind of ritual dance, something like a ballet, expressing a certain philosophy of life,” wrote the great British author George Orwell in 1941.

For a British military march to be reinvented as a graduation tune – by a former colonial subject of the U.K., no less – shows how people can bestow entirely new meanings onto old songs.