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Post subject: England Expects Every Man will do His Duty  Posted: Fri Oct 21, 2005 12:37 pm |
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Congratulations to our British friends on the bicentennary of this most historic battle
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Trafalgar
"Victory..and damnation to the French!"!
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Post subject: England Expects Every Man will do His Duty Posted: Fri Oct 21, 2005 3:47 pm |
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Hehe, 22 - Nill, still warms the cockles of my heart .
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Post subject: England Expects Every Man will do His Duty Posted: Fri Oct 21, 2005 6:58 pm |
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| Quote (netepic @ 21 Oct. 2005 (08:47)) | | Hehe, 22 - Nill, still warms the cockles of my heart . |
You have a bivalve mollusk as a heart?!?!
"Hail Britannia, Britannia rules the waves"
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Post subject: England Expects Every Man will do His Duty Posted: Fri Oct 21, 2005 7:19 pm |
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I have heard the French have increased the Alert level to Hide after a terrorist attack, the only two higher levels being Surrender and Collaborate.
This action was prompted by the bombing of two of Frances most productive White Flag factories and is believed to have almost halved Frances ability to fight a war.
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Post subject: England Expects Every Man will do His Duty Posted: Sat Oct 22, 2005 5:19 am |
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Dont forget the fact that they are also horribly fatigued after their gargantuan effort a few years a go to drop a Concorde onto a hotel - and thus tripling the figure of Germans they managed to kill in the past 100 years 
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Post subject: England Expects Every Man will do His Duty Posted: Sat Oct 22, 2005 6:07 am |
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Hi!
Yes, I remembered that today when I went to Borders and saw the cover of National Geographic with Trafalgar on it.
Rule Britannia!
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Post subject: England Expects Every Man will do His Duty Posted: Sat Oct 22, 2005 9:44 am |
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Uhm... looks like someone is forgetting Napoleon here
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Post subject: England Expects Every Man will do His Duty Posted: Sat Oct 22, 2005 3:11 pm |
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Post subject: England Expects Every Man will do His Duty Posted: Sun Oct 23, 2005 1:05 am |
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| Quote (Magnus @ 22 Oct. 2005 (02:44)) | | Uhm... looks like someone is forgetting Napoleon here |
Ah but Magnus... Napoleon was Corsican not "France French".
Even today theres a disproportionate number of Corsicans serving in French special forces units. Combine that with the size and ferocity of the Corsican underworld groups and I'd have to say that by and large Corsicans are not people you want to have be irritated with you.
Don't even get me started on the number of Germans in the post WWII French Foreign Legion...
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Post subject: England Expects Every Man will do His Duty Posted: Sun Oct 23, 2005 5:17 am |
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Yep ... a lot of Corsicans are in French SF units ... The FFL's 2d REP is stationed in Corsica ! And the FFL was full of Germans after WWII (there were a bunch before, too !) The Germans in the FFL in French Indo China '45-'54, were very good ... they had a lot of experience at war ! ?Read George Elford's "The Devils Guard" and "Return to Inferno" ... it's said to be historical fiction, but ... ? 
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Post subject: England Expects Every Man will do His Duty Posted: Sun Oct 23, 2005 7:31 am |
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Rue Britannia, and God Save The Queen (And Monty Python re-runs too)
You do know that France restructured their road networks during reconstruction after WWII. Yea, they straightened them all out to make it easier on invading armies moving from east or west 
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Post subject: England Expects Every Man will do His Duty Posted: Sun Oct 23, 2005 5:11 pm |
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Ouch !!!
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Post subject: England Expects Every Man will do His Duty Posted: Mon Oct 24, 2005 6:47 am |
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Post subject: England Expects Every Man will do His Duty Posted: Mon Oct 24, 2005 1:51 pm |
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George Elford's "The Devils Guard" |
That is an AWESOME book. I highly recommend it.
Those were some very BAD boys, fresh from partizan hunting in the Pripet marshes in Russia so hunting Viet Minh in Indo-China was pretty much their bag.
In the end the Vietnamese could not defeat them militarily and brought International pressure on France to stop using war criminals in the FFL.
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?A great Naval victory not appreciated by all Euros ! 
?Ghastly ! ?