Two hundred years ago today...
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Captain Seafort
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Two hundred years ago today...
The battles of Ligny and Quatre Bras were fought between the French Army of the North, the Anglo-Dutch Army of Flanders and the Prussian Army of the Lower Rhine.
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Re: Two hundred years ago today...
Who won?
Give a man a fire, and you keep him warm for a day. SET a man on fire, and you will keep him warm for the rest of his life...
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Re: Two hundred years ago today...
The bad guys.
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Re: Two hundred years ago today...
We have a different definition of "bad" if von Blucher took the field with 10,000 more men and a decided advantage in artillery... and lost his manpower advantage to desertion alone.Captain Seafort wrote:The bad guys.
I can't stand nothing dull
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I'll massacre your ass as fast
as Bull offed Custer
I got the high gloss luster
I'll massacre your ass as fast
as Bull offed Custer
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Doh!Captain Seafort wrote:The bad guys.
Give a man a fire, and you keep him warm for a day. SET a man on fire, and you will keep him warm for the rest of his life...
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Re: Two hundred years ago today...
The good guys won the rematch.
With the result that this is the first thing any Frenchman sees when he arrives on the Eurostar:
With the result that this is the first thing any Frenchman sees when he arrives on the Eurostar:
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Re: Two hundred years ago today...
I remember reading the unabridged Les Miserables and hitting the twelve or fifteen page digression on Waterloo. Then there was the even LONGER digression on the Parisian sewer system...