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Hindu Stan retweeted
Men of B Company, 2nd Battalion, 24th Regiment of Foot, photographed at Pinetown, Natal, in September 1879.
Only eight months earlier, B Company had formed the core of the British garrison that defended Rorke’s Drift on 22–23 January.
"... the bombardment has been going on for three days now. I don't know how much longer the men can hold out. Morale is low..."
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Surely you can just train your robot to tick the 'I am not a robot' button - or are they bound by some convention to always answer truthfully?
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Hindu Stan retweeted
On this day in 1917, Australian Light Horsemen charged across four miles of open ground straight into Turkish guns at Beersheba.
They had no swords, so they charged with bayonets.
It's remembered as the last great successful cavalry charge in history.
Courage like that should never be forgotten.
If you have children, rather than muck around with the nonsense of Halloween - instead, sit down and teach them at the charge of the Australian LightHorse at Beersheba on this day, 31st October, 109 years ago.
Because with our marxist infiltrated national curriculum - it’s likely they won’t be taught about it at school.
Extremely valuable work for anyone interested in the Napoleonic period - rush out and buy it !
Great start to the weekend - author copies have arrived!
The book is the story of those who made Napoleon's campaigns possible - the 2 million or so conscripts, and the system that brought them into the French army.
@Helionbooks have done a really great job putting it together!
See my 1988 essay 'Was the Peasant's Revolt really a peasant's revolt?'...
Andrew Garfield plays a ploughman in The Uprising – but the real medieval rebels weren’t all peasants. Research has traced the background of hundreds of people connected with the revolt and they had varied backgrounds.
theconversation.com/andrew-g…
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Blimey - I thought @Hindu_Stan was a gonner for a minute there! Twitter synced itself to my phone (which I rarely use) and created a whole new account for me - thanks!
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Slightly annoyed as I had meant to post about this a few days ago but here we see a romanticised image of the Gendarmes de Paris climbing the spoil heaps to the north of Hondschoote on 9th September 1793 during the 'great victory over the English'.
Just for clarity - the defending force was Hanoverian and managed to hold its exposed position all day against a French force that outnumbered it 3:1 and it then withdrew in good order to close up with the Duke of York's force at Dunkirk.
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Walking has happened - I am utter knackered but I completed the whole, 23 mile, course if a little slower than I'd hoped.
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Hardly bothering Sir Roger Bannister but I am just walking - have cracked 13 minutes a mile - quite chuffed!
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Dear Lidl - what happened to 'have what you're given and like it'? Anyone else had enough of that spoilt little....?
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Absolutely - The allies considered France was finished and started looking for ways to 'secure the peace' rather than finishing the job. If they had done, in 1793, what they did in 1814 we would, I believe, have had a very different european history.
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I used to walk around Hallaton and regularly attended the annual bottle kicking - I might have been within yards of this beauty!
The Hallaton helmet, a #Roman cavalry helmet from the C1st AD. It is a very ornate piece, originally covered in silver sheet & gold leaf, with a female goddess on the brow guard; it is one of the earlist known Roman helmets from Roman Britain...
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