'you can't just keep reiterating "top historians have said..." as though it's an unassailable argument",' says Will above. Without taking sides [I don't even purport to be a military historian & have no direct comment to make on either side in this particular dispute], must just observe that it strikes me as a somewhat better argument than Musket's constant assertion that anything that has appeared in the Telegraph or the Mail is ipso facto to be denounced as untrue. Dear me, what a silly fellow the occasionally intelligent Mather can be when he really puts his mind to it!

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