BS: October - a good month for battles?

Subject: BS: October - a good month for battles?
From: Blowzabella
Date: 04 Oct 04 - 04:26 PM

Hastings - 14th October; Agincourt 25th October; Trafalgar 21st October - all decisive battles (certainl in British history).

Is there a pattern here - is there a strategic or even astrological reason for it? Just wondered....

Subject: RE: BS: October - a good month for battles?
From: Bill D
Date: 04 Oct 04 - 04:42 PM

hurrying to get as much done as possible before Winter....armies hate marching in cold and slush.

Subject: RE: BS: October - a good month for battles?
From: alanabit
Date: 04 Oct 04 - 04:48 PM

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.

Subject: RE: BS: October - a good month for battles?
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 04 Oct 04 - 05:15 PM

Well as an October baby, and a forceps birth to boot, I had a battle being born!
Giok

Subject: RE: BS: October - a good month for battles?
From: Paul from Hull
Date: 05 Oct 04 - 07:46 AM

Dont forget Balaklava...150 yrs ago, on the 25th...same day of the year as Agincourt took place.

Subject: RE: BS: October - a good month for battles?
From: Les from Hull
Date: 05 Oct 04 - 08:10 AM

Napoleon had given up invading Britain by the time of Trafalgar and was invading Austria.

The reason that Henry V won at Agincourt was the intercession of the tow East Riding saints he prayed to - St jOhn of Beverley and St jOhn of Bridlington.

Subject: RE: BS: October - a good month for battles?
From: Blowzabella
Date: 18 Oct 04 - 07:18 PM

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