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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| Author: | Tas [ Fri Oct 21, 2005 12:37 pm ] |
| Post subject: | England Expects Every Man will do His Duty |
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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| Author: | netepic [ Fri Oct 21, 2005 3:47 pm ] |
| Post subject: | England Expects Every Man will do His Duty |
Hehe, 22 - Nill, still warms the cockles of my heart .
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| Author: | Heresiarch [ Fri Oct 21, 2005 6:58 pm ] | ||
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You have a bivalve mollusk as a heart?!?!  "Hail Britannia, Britannia rules the waves" |
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| Author: | mageboltrat [ Fri Oct 21, 2005 7:19 pm ] |
| Post subject: | England Expects Every Man will do His Duty |
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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| Author: | Tas [ Sat Oct 22, 2005 5:19 am ] |
| Post subject: | England Expects Every Man will do His Duty |
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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| Author: | primarch [ Sat Oct 22, 2005 6:07 am ] |
| Post subject: | England Expects Every Man will do His Duty |
Hi! Yes, I remembered that today when I went to Borders and saw the cover of National Geographic with Trafalgar on it. Rule Britannia! Primarch |
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| Author: | Magnus [ Sat Oct 22, 2005 9:44 am ] |
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Uhm... looks like someone is forgetting Napoleon here
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| Author: | Legion 4 [ Sat Oct 22, 2005 3:11 pm ] |
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God save the Queen or King ! ?Which ever is the case !  ?A great Naval victory not appreciated by all Euros ! ? I remember a French Infantry Bn's Officers in Berlin being invited to a Brit Bn's formal Dining In function in the '80. ?However the French left a bit angry when they saw, among the UK Bn's trophies included items that were captured at Waterloo by that Brit Bn from the French Bn ! ?Oops ! ?Also IIRC the Glousters still wear a red beret flash awarded for bloody close combat against the Colonials during the American Revolution ! ? ?Ghastly ! ?  |
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| Author: | Heresiarch [ Sun Oct 23, 2005 1:05 am ] | ||
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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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| Author: | Legion 4 [ 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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| Author: | Jaldon [ 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 Jaldon
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| Author: | Legion 4 [ Sun Oct 23, 2005 5:11 pm ] |
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Ouch !!!
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| Author: | primarch [ Sun Oct 23, 2005 11:09 pm ] |
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Hi! Hehe. Primarch |
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| Author: | vanvlak [ Mon Oct 24, 2005 6:47 am ] |
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Aw, buggere alle and Vive l'Empereur! I'm a bit of a Francophile, y'know?
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| Author: | Tas [ Mon Oct 24, 2005 1:51 pm ] |
| Post subject: | England Expects Every Man will do His Duty |
George Elford's "The Devils Guard" | |
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