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Post by HolyDragoon on Aug 4, 2017 5:52:47 GMT -6
... so, if they're a bunch of guys with thir hands in the air, they're French?
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Post by Enderminion on Aug 4, 2017 6:06:29 GMT -6
... so, if they're a bunch of guys with thir hands in the air, they're French? I wasn't gonna say it...
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Post by Airy W on Aug 4, 2017 6:52:12 GMT -6
Strange, I thought this forum was all together too well informed for those old memes.
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Post by oldpop2000 on Aug 4, 2017 7:04:49 GMT -6
I read somewhere that the shortest book of war heroes is the Irish.
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Post by garrisonchisholm on Aug 4, 2017 8:06:29 GMT -6
Because they're too smart to be fightin' when there's drinkin' to be done! Slante!
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Post by oldpop2000 on Aug 4, 2017 8:53:29 GMT -6
Because they're too smart to be fightin' when there's drinkin' to be done! Slante! Possibly, or the answer is that they have spent most of their history fightin' amongst themselves to really have a chance to fight anywhere else. Except for the Irish Brigade in the US Civil War.
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Post by cv10 on Aug 4, 2017 9:39:29 GMT -6
Because they're too smart to be fightin' when there's drinkin' to be done! Slante! Possibly, or the answer is that they have spent most of their history fightin' amongst themselves to really have a chance to fight anywhere else. Except for the Irish Brigade in the US Civil War. Due to England controlling Ireland for so long, I think the Irish never really got the chance to fight under their own flag (with the exceptions of the 1690s, 1798, the Easter Rising, and then 1919-1920) Irish Regiments of the British Army, such as the 88th Regiment of Foot (Connaught Rangers), the 27th Enniskillen Regiment, the 83rd Regiment or the numerous other units that they filled. During the Peninsular War, I think an upwards of 1/3 of the Duke of Wellington's forces were made up of either Irish Regiments or Irishmen. Where would Britannia have been without the Irish! Plus there was that company of Irish Army peacekeepers that got trapped in Jadotville in the Congo during the 1960s. The 150-odd company held off an estimated 4,000 Katagese troops (armed by the Belgians and the French, and led by former officer of the French Foreign Legion) for 5 days. The Irish managed to kill around 300 of them, and wound around 1,000 before they ran out of ammunition and had to surrender. None of the peacekeepers were killed (though a failed relief column of Swedes lost 3 men). The Irish Brigade did great work during the Civil War. The charge they made up Marye's Heights (on par with Picket's Charge) was probably the bravest attack made of the war, as the soldiers followed an order that really should not have been given, and suffered terribly for it.
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Post by cv10 on Aug 4, 2017 9:42:46 GMT -6
I read somewhere that the shortest book of war heroes is the Irish. I'd go with the Swiss! When was the last time that their country went to war? Aside from providing Mercenaries that is? (No disrespect to the Swiss themselves, Beautiful country!) "With enemies you know where they stand but with Neutrals, who knows?" Zapp Brannigan
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Post by oldpop2000 on Aug 4, 2017 11:27:21 GMT -6
I read somewhere that the shortest book of war heroes is the Irish. I'd go with the Swiss! When was the last time that their country went to war? Aside from providing Mercenaries that is? (No disrespect to the Swiss themselves, Beautiful country!) "With enemies you know where they stand but with Neutrals, who knows?" Zapp Brannigan The last war for the Swiss was around 1500 when Swiss mercenaries were the most feared in Europe. In 1815, Switzerland invaded France two weeks after the Battle of Waterloo. There was a Sonderbund, or short civil war in 1847.
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Post by cv10 on Aug 4, 2017 11:37:43 GMT -6
I'd go with the Swiss! When was the last time that their country went to war? Aside from providing Mercenaries that is? (No disrespect to the Swiss themselves, Beautiful country!) "With enemies you know where they stand but with Neutrals, who knows?" Zapp Brannigan In 1815, Switzerland invaded France two weeks after the Battle of Waterloo. Kind of like Turkey declaring war on Germany right as the Red Army was pouring into eastern Germany. Oh to be a belligerent on the winning side for only about 3 months!
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Post by oldpop2000 on Aug 4, 2017 12:09:22 GMT -6
In 1815, Switzerland invaded France two weeks after the Battle of Waterloo. Kind of like Turkey declaring war on Germany right as the Red Army was pouring into eastern Germany. Oh to be a belligerent on the winning side for only about 3 months! Yea, I thought that was kinda low but you know the Swiss, anything for a buck. The Turks were not much better and when they get into trouble, they call on the rest of the world. I am still amazed by their side in WW1.
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Post by garrisonchisholm on Aug 25, 2017 21:21:30 GMT -6
I have another amusing entry in the "cartoon-level" violence category, again off Bari, this time though the Italians are the foe; the year 1947. In yet another night-time engagement... ...I find the the order of events amusing. At 33 minutes past the hour, a shape in the darkness; the squadron veers to port, the flagship uncertain. At 34 minutes past the hour a destroyer identifies the foe and signals; and then 24 hits from Byzantion with 2 jams- so 2 broadsides where every shell hit. 19 hits from destroyer #6- 2+ full broadsides. 22 hits from Satyr- 1+ full broadsides. 7 hits from 3 other ships. All in that 34th minute. "...a little jumpy are we?", the Commodore asks the captain...
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Post by fredsanford on Aug 25, 2017 22:01:03 GMT -6
Kind of like Turkey declaring war on Germany right as the Red Army was pouring into eastern Germany. Oh to be a belligerent on the winning side for only about 3 months! Yea, I thought that was kinda low but you know the Swiss, anything for a buck. The Turks were not much better and when they get into trouble, they call on the rest of the world. I am still amazed by their side in WW1. My vote goes to the mighty armed forces of Zanzibar in their heroic struggle against the British Empire! en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anglo-Zanzibar_War
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Post by director on Aug 25, 2017 22:24:05 GMT -6
garrisonchisholm - that is one seriously - seriously - dead merchant ship. You could use that hull as a colander!
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Post by garrisonchisholm on Aug 26, 2017 8:27:49 GMT -6
garrisonchisholm - that is one seriously - seriously - dead merchant ship. You could use that hull as a colander! Maybe the cargo was an explosive concoction of... Caesar Salad. ... I'll show myself out...
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