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Thread #74028 Message #1288550
Posted By: alanabit
04-Oct-04 - 04:48 PM
Thread Name: BS: October - a good month for battles?
Subject: RE: BS: October - a good month for battles?
Different ways of looking at it. In 1066, the Frogs duffed us at Hastings (or rather Battle - some six miles to the north). It set up a class system, which some of us would say is still in position nearly ten centuries later. Agincourt, which I talked about in other threads, was a great result on the day. However, to be fair to the French, we should recall that the first thing Henry V did after winning it was to get back to Calais and get the first Sealink Ferry home. We definitely LOST the campaign and indeed later, we lost the Hundred Years War (which, I think, actually lasted 116 years). Trafalgar was certainly a good one for us. We duffed 'em, sent 'em to Davy Jones Locker and ended Napoleon's (quite preposterous) invasion plans in 1805. All in all, I don't think October was a good month for the bad tempered little Corsican. I believe the Battle of the Nations took place in October 1813 at Leipzig - and that didn't do his career prospects much good either. Mixed fortunes I'd say.