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Thread #3275   Message #16071
Posted By: Benjamin Bodhra/nai
11-Nov-97 - 07:18 AM
Thread Name: Help: The Foggy Dew: Sud el Bar? Huns?
Subject: RE: The Foggy Dew
Hey ya Leprechaun,

The term Hun is used a lot just to describe a bloodthirsty warring people or person, so yes in the view of the Irish republicans the English were Huns. Also the fact that the English are Anglo-Saxons, Anglelandt and Saxony being part of Germany and Denmark. But the phrase Britains sons is one I have found more common and it is more appropriate I think.

Sud el Bar was a battle area in WWI, but having just done a quick check of my history books I can't find a good reference to it. It is in the Middle East and I'm sure that Australia was involved as that is why I would have a reference in my mind. I think it was in Egypt, maybe the same time and area as the Beersheba charge. Don't quote me.

Sla/n

Benjamin