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Thread #45911   Message #3787453
Posted By: Teribus
27-Apr-16 - 11:36 AM
Thread Name: BS: Easter Rising - April 24-29, 1916
Subject: RE: BS: Easter Rising - April 24-29, 1916
Pray tell Raggy what proof? The statement you quote proves nothing. I stand by what I said. I was responding to your idiotic:

"Not just for one shot apiece but for numerous shots apiece and neither managed to hit a static target a matter of a few hundreds yards away."

Hardly a few hundreds (sic) yards away, and I was explaining to you why under the circumstances fancifully imagined by your "volunteer" that neither gun crew could possibly hit the other - no firing solution. There was no indiscriminate fire Rags if there had been then a damn sight more than 260 civilians would have been killed. No heavy artillery Jom because if there had been then a damn sight more than 485 people would have been killed. No incendiary rounds as none existed in the whole of Ireland in April 1916. No blue-on-blue friendly fire incident as described by Raggy's volunteer.

Now then Rags tell us how it would be possible for a man under fire to witness what he said he witnessed? If you cannot do that then that puts his whole story into question doesn't it?

Jom's gone awfully quiet of the poppies and the obscene profits hasn't he? Mind you he is not alone. Fergie has remained silent since he was asked to tell us when and where Joe Offer asked him to pen his tuppence worth and Thompson doesn't seem to be able to tell us where he got his wildly exaggerated figures from (30,000 British troops whereas the actual number deployed to Ireland was 15,000 + 1,000 policemen of the RIC in Dublin at the time. At the height of the fighting the 1250 volunteers were engaged by 4,000 British troops) and where the 1.2 million Arabs came from who fought for the British Army in the First World War - 500,000 of them getting killed would you credit it - I certainly don't but then I don't just spout about being sceptical - I actually check-out statements made by others.