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HEY GAL posted:early modern artillery owned, you shut your mouth During King Philip's War I think there was either something like one place that could make gunpowder in all of New England or the colonists were entirely dependent on shipments from England.
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HEY GAL posted:was it because of raw materials or did they forget how or something Partly raw materials, mostly just not having much industrial infrastructure. This is only a couple generations after the Mayflower arrived, remember.
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Last time the British ran away from Europe like this was in 1940.
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Jobbo_Fett posted:Wikipedia: On this day I made a Dunkirk joke already.
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FAT CURES MUSCLES posted:Are there any cool military history museums around Munich? The Deutsches Museum has the original German U-boat in the basement. It's worth visiting for that alone.
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Ainsley McTree posted:He and Henry VIII would have been good friends Is that a loving coat of arms on his codpiece? Vincent Van Goatse fucked around with this message at 20:38 on Jun 26, 2016 |
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Xiahou Dun posted:As of when I was there in May it and most of the other cool poo poo was in storage. That's... disappointing.
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HEY GAL posted:The squirrel thing: how well supplied are these Alpini--do you suppose the sharpshooter wants to eat them? or do you think he wants to shoot them because he's, you know, a sharpshooter and it would be a challenge? I'd think there wouldn't be much of the squirrel left if it was hit by a shot from a WW1 service rifle so probably the latter.
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Xerxes17 posted:I'm now morbidly curious as to what a varmit round to the belly would do to a person. It'd hurt like a bitch, same as any other bullet.
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Hazzard posted:And "Lions led by Donkeys" is a left wing myth, so left wing in fact that a Tory working for Thatcher invented it. It actually existed long before Alan Clark wrote that squalid little book. You can thank Liddell Hart for a lot of it.
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Not really. Churchill was frustrated that in mid-1941 the Home Guard still didn't have enough weapons to issue every member a gun and wrote in a memo that they had to issue every member of the Home Guard a weapon even if it was just a pike or a mace. He was exaggerating for effect, but some clod at the War Office took it literally and had thousands of pikes made up from old bayonets and pipes. Neither Churchill nor the poor bastards who were issued the things were happy about it.
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There's a big statue of Lincoln in Manchester, UK of all places. Although the reasoning becomes much more obvious when you read the plaque:Extract of a letter to the working men of Manchester 19th January 1863 posted:I know and deeply deplore the sufferings which the working people of Manchester and in all Europe are called to endure in this crisis. It has been often and studiously represented that the attempt to overthrow this Government which was built on the foundation of human rights, and to substitute for it one which should rest exclusively on the basis of slavery, was likely to obtain the favour of Europe. Through the action of disloyal citizens the working people of Europe have been subjected to a severe trial for the purpose of forcing their sanction to that attempt. Under these circumstances I cannot but regard your decisive utterances upon the question as an instance of sublime Christian heroism which has not been surpassed in any age or in any country. It is indeed an energetic and re-inspiring assurance of the inherent truth and of the ultimate and universal triumph of justice, humanity and freedom ... I hail this interchange of sentiments therefore, as an augury that whatever else may happen, whatever misfortune may befall your country or my own, the peace and friendship which now exists between the two nations will be as it shall be my desire to make them, perpetual. Vincent Van Goatse fucked around with this message at 05:02 on Jul 2, 2016 |
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The Lone Badger posted:Counterpoint: In modern America the Navy's Army has an Air Force. They don't operate those ships, the Navy does.
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MrYenko posted:I believe his point was that the Navy operates them, and their escorts, entirely separately from the Navy's primary surface action groups and CVBGs. Except they don't operate entirely separately. In an actual no-poo poo amphibious operation the CVBGs would be covering the amphibious ships.
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HEY GAL posted:french as well, you've got the chef de file, "head of the file," chef de serre file, "head of the back of the line," and the chef de demi flle, "head of halfway down the line." The Royal Navy actually did this poo poo too. You had Admirals of the Rear, Admirals of the Van [vanguard, i.e. the front of the line of battle], and Admirals of the Main. It's why the lowest grade of Admiral is known as Rear Admiral.
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FAUXTON posted:Happy Fall of Vicksburg Day/Lee's Retreat from Gettysburg Day everyone! George Meade has a Posse.
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FAUXTON posted:Every time someone tries claiming Germany wasn't mobilized until the late war I want to sit them down and play them that guy's presentation about how utterly shitballs inefficient the German tank factories were. Also worthy of note is that such improvements in German industrial capacity as there were late in the war were achieved by imported laborers (either foreigners brought in by German companies or concentration camp inmates).
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Kemper Boyd posted:Clearly, a MacArthur coup would end by a bunch of privates killing him outside a bar or something with consecrated Patton-model cavalry sabres or something. Probably led by Patton himself.
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As much as I hate alt-history in general, I find it amusing that y'all are complaining about alt-history authors writing about Gandhi being assassinated because, y'know, that's what happened in real history.
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HESH wants blow up tank!
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Well, now I'm unreasonably angry at how stupid this is.
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P-Mack posted:Read Grant's memoirs, they're great. Sherman's too. Even better is they're like 99¢ on Kindle too and it's a nice edition that's been proofread and everything.
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EvanSchenck posted:It makes sense. The War Nerd aka "Gary Brecher" is a pseudonym for the writer John Dolan, who happens to be one of those Irish-Americans who are still obsessively Anglophobic. He also sucks poo poo on every other level of military history.
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my dad posted:HEY GAL makes a lot of good posts about Germany and mercenaries, but she has something like a hundred pages of posts in this thread, so it's best to treat her like a cloud of alcohol, pistols, windows, pistols shooting through windows, weird German words, and suspiciously bloody coins that gets regularly quartered in this thread. I make lovely jokes and occasionally post something about dreadnoughts.
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lenoon posted:I feel like force ten from Navarone was the inferior Navarone book and is therefore expected to be kind of lovely on its depiction of German vehicles The original used Chaffees to represent German tanks (a battalion's worth deployed on some backwater Greek island for some reason) so Force 10 actually comes out ahead.
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