I never served with any officer who didn't duck rather frequently. I was, however, on a submarine. So there's that.
@buzzdroid8325
5 жыл бұрын
Lol
@lewisdean22
5 жыл бұрын
He didn't 🦆 but I bet he dived.
@asparadog
5 жыл бұрын
You are a very humourous person.
@DestinyChildTranslations
5 жыл бұрын
High ratio of officer deaths is NOT something to be proud of. It's downright dumb. The Japanese in the Pacific kept putting their sergeants in danger (not to mention put them in stupid banzai charges... which was idiotic... much less without any artillery or smoke to cover them!) and coupled with a very rigid command doctrine meant often times units would be led astray without a surviving officer to command them. They did this because they genuinely still believed the Frenchmen's WW1 idea of "elan vital," which was yet another misuse of a theoretical biological concept that "the will to live evolves creatures (which was a dumb idea to begin with)" which meant if you believed yourself bulletproof you can weather through machinegun fire. Men dying in droves in Verdun just meant that they didn't believe hard enough. It didn't work for the French, and it didn't work for the Japanese. No reason it should work for the British or any body of humans.
@DestinyChildTranslations
5 жыл бұрын
The examples Lindy gives are ridiculous. Not to mention he did start off saying lots of officers died, which can't be good. First of all, the near miss case, the officer wouldn't have even been shot at in the first place if he wasn't so careless. Second, for every man "emboldened" by a fearless act of an officer, we don't see the opposite case: the case where a foolishly bold officer inconveniences everyone around him by getting himself recklessly killed.
@David_Axelord
5 жыл бұрын
It's a historical fact that many snipers learned to read lips so they could make their shots with optimal comedic timing.
@finleyxavier7273
4 жыл бұрын
Your fucking with me right ?
@juliethurgood3667
4 жыл бұрын
Lol
@johanmikkael6903
4 жыл бұрын
I mean if youre talking to a guy that says "Trust me to save your ass in battle" Then after that he got shot, you would be scared like shit and have PTSD for the rest of your days.
@Big_Steve11
4 жыл бұрын
"I need that like I need a hole in the head *BAM* "
@darryl635
4 жыл бұрын
"Phil, wear the fucking helmet you're gonna die" "Nah a don't need it" *BAM* aaand Phil's dead
@JigerotatheWicked
7 жыл бұрын
Many years ago I was stationed at Fort Sam Houston, in San Antonio, Texas. One night at the officers' club, the post commanded chided a British liaison officer. The Brit along with other liaison personnel was supposed to show up for morning PT with the post headquarters company, but he never did, and the CO was somewhat affronted, both because he was a big fitness nut and because he took the absence as a kind of insubordination. When he got done the Brit, who went through the entire thing with a face as deadpan as an empty skillet, took a sip of his tequila (which he had taken quite a liking to) and in the most sterotypical round, plummy tones he could manage he said "Sir, a British officer never runs. It might panic the troops."
@markone6861
6 жыл бұрын
That is funny
@SNP-1999
5 жыл бұрын
A gentleman walks, but never runs. (I can't run anymore anyway, I would trip over my walking stick)
@Fidgottio
5 жыл бұрын
Yet one has to run 2.4km and complete the beep test to a minimum of 10.2 to pass officer selection
@nigeh5326
5 жыл бұрын
Fidgottio officers don't call it running they call it strolling briskly 😀
@mrmaje1
5 жыл бұрын
@janis vogel do you not have a sense of humour then?
@mikewazowski471
4 жыл бұрын
"Funny thing snipers, they've got all of me to aim at, but still took a pop at your head." That line is absolute comedic genius
@Hypatia4242
7 жыл бұрын
"Seeing your officer shot can embolden the men." Hmm, perhaps I can recommend this to my boss as a way of improving office morale.
@andytaylor1588
7 жыл бұрын
Perfect comment!
@idk-zy9ig
7 жыл бұрын
Genuis
@Blowfeld20k
7 жыл бұрын
This needs to be turned into a international movement :P
@barryallenporter8127
7 жыл бұрын
Think they called that Communism
@Burneri
7 жыл бұрын
but it only works if the men like the officer...
@sneakysnakeproductions8800
7 жыл бұрын
"Any officer who goes into action without his sword is improperly dressed." -"Mad" "Fighting" Jack Churchill
@rizahanifardhi7112
6 жыл бұрын
tennõheika banzai!
@connorkilpatrick6283
6 жыл бұрын
Was hoping he would get mentioned the crazy nutter.
@Lord.Kiltridge
5 жыл бұрын
@Ryan Kruse Well, the very best history has recorded. I'll grant you that. Mad Jack also has the record of the last recorded bow and arrow kill in war. 1940 at Dunkirk.
@angloempire6935
5 жыл бұрын
@Ryan Kruse Fuck off
@Tentin.Quarantino
5 жыл бұрын
Ryan Kruse Churchill saved me money on my car insurance. He’s pretty good he’s not strictly human though.
@gallendugall8913
8 жыл бұрын
I thought with Knights the heraldry was meant to scream, "DON'T KILL ME I CAN BE RANSOMED!"
@MrJohnycomelately21
8 жыл бұрын
My favourite tale of that, was a French knight who had, please don't kill me I'm very rich inscribed on his helmet (in French) unfortunately for him he was captured by a common soldier who didn't speak French.... it didn't end well for the the knight :)
@MrJohnycomelately21
8 жыл бұрын
My favourite tale of that, was a French knight who had, please don't kill me I'm very rich inscribed on his helmet (in French) unfortunately for him he was captured by a common soldier who didn't speak French.... it didn't end well for the the knight :)
@kokofan50
8 жыл бұрын
It was both "Look how awesome I am" and "I'm worth a lot of money; don't kill me".
@MrJohnycomelately21
8 жыл бұрын
I love it when a complete boof head gets their comeuppance!
@616lordofdarkness
8 жыл бұрын
real life plot armor
@nosferatu5
8 жыл бұрын
So Monty Python sketches on british military were on point?
@paulmag91
8 жыл бұрын
O.o
@RAkers-tu1ey
8 жыл бұрын
Isn't MP always on point?
@LionofCaliban
8 жыл бұрын
Apparently the Black Adder series in WW1, was more than a little accurate when it came to the Royal Australian Army.
@hartleymartin
8 жыл бұрын
There was no such thing as the "Royal Australian Army" There were units such as the Royal Australian Artillery, Royal Australian Regiment, Australian Imperial Forces.
@LionofCaliban
8 жыл бұрын
Martin Hartley I might have to disagree, though it seems the Royal part is not needed. Either way, there is most definitely, an army, made of a number of units including a number of regiments, infantry, artillery and armour. As well as that we have units such as the SASR, built on the model as used by the 22nd SAS out of Hereford. Two Commando units as well. It works with the RAAF (Royal Australian Air Force) and RAN (Royal Australian Navy), as part of the Australian Defence Force and as of a previous change of government, all serving members in the ADF are required to swear allegiance to the Queen of Australia, Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth the Second. At least, as I understand it. Yeah, that's also her title, as well as the many other states and entities still part of the Commonwealth where it's written into their respective Constitutions that the reigning monarch in England is their effective head of state. So if you can accept there are battalions, regiments and the like, there most certainly is an Australian Army. While it seems to lack the Royal moniker, it is none the less, a recognised service and has its own units, personnel and formations.
@yetanother9127
8 жыл бұрын
American officers have made a habit of ducking ever since a particularly famous engagement during the American Civil War. General John Sedgwick was participating in the Battle of Spotsylvania Courthouse when he and his unit came under fire from Confederate sharpshooters. As his men dove for cover, Gen. Sedgwick confidently strode around in the open, urging his men to show more backbone with the words "What? Men dodging this way for single bullets? What will you do when they open fire along the whole line? I am ashamed of you! Why are you dodging like this? They couldn't hit an elephant at this distance!" Shortly after saying this, he took a bullet below his left eye and died instantly.
@ala5530
8 жыл бұрын
Not quite true- he was shot after saying that line, yes, but he'd had time to make his way over to the next group of his men to urge them to stand up, borrowing the rifle-musket from one of them when he was killed. Granted, many accounts have him shot sooner (often going so far as to have him killed mid-sentence), but I suspect that, as in this video, they were going for irony rather than total accuracy.
@kirotheavenger60
8 жыл бұрын
that was terrible luck, snipers weren't a thing back then due to the accuracy of the guns.
@Alf763
8 жыл бұрын
ah you see, he wasn't british and that's the key
@yetanother9127
8 жыл бұрын
Kirothe Avenger Actually, there are records of Confederate sharpshooters (using the Sharps rifle, from which the word "sharpshooter" is derived) making shots at almost a kilometer. Not bad for the tail end of the musket era.
@kokofan50
8 жыл бұрын
What are you talking about? American career officers are just as crazy.
@TheMilitantHorse
7 жыл бұрын
*Quotes Heroic British General* "Admittedly, his body was never found..." Christ, that's blunt...
@GoranXII
6 жыл бұрын
And therefore ducking wouldn't have helped.
@theortheo2401
6 жыл бұрын
duck in a hole, you survive, stand in a hole you die, ducking always increase your survivability
@panstan8499
6 жыл бұрын
*takes hit*
@notsogreatsword1607
6 жыл бұрын
Theortheo who said ducking in a hole wouldn't make a difference? No one said anything of the sort. If you're out in the open ducking doesn't make much of a difference. That's what was said.
@theortheo2401
6 жыл бұрын
@@notsogreatsword1607 ducking in the open and you're a smaller target, therefore, harder to hit...
@chriscox3046
3 жыл бұрын
I was an British Army Officer and can say that we were constantly reminded at Sandhurst of the heroism of previous officers, and our duty to maintain that tradition. However things have changed (for the better) in that it is now harder to tell an officer in the field as they look, and are usually carrying the same weapons etc as the other ranks. However there is still a very strong motivation to be seen to be calm under fire, and to use your head to work out the best course of action. At the end of the day the lucky survive, and soldiers always like a lucky officer!
@carrott36
Жыл бұрын
I’m told that German snipers in WW1 could pick out officers because of their thinner legs from wearing their riding breeches.
@chriscox3046
Жыл бұрын
@@carrott36 In WW1 Officers had to attack machine guns with webley pistol, absolute insanity
@wardenstone6021
Жыл бұрын
@@chriscox3046in ww1 there was no killing of a machine gun crew until you were inside a trench. Thats why it didnt really matter what you gave an officer.
@melliteshastur4417
5 жыл бұрын
"Seing your officer being shot may improve morale." Sounds like an Imperial guard tactic
@mandowarrior123
5 жыл бұрын
Not much in their doctrine that isn't british.
@steveisthecommissar4013
3 жыл бұрын
Ah yes it make you feel so alive Standing also gives a better view of the men to check to see if I need to shoot one
@ianhogben3472
2 жыл бұрын
was that a 40k refrence
@finalfantasylegend93
2 жыл бұрын
Yes I believe so
@wookie-zh7go
3 жыл бұрын
My mates dad was in a fox hole in the gulf, when a moustache sporting officer jumped in "alright chaps? food hot? beds dry? alright cheerio". I would have been laughing till the next day.
@widowpeak6142
8 жыл бұрын
Basically: The british officers had run out of fucks to give back at the middle ages. :D
@TheBaconWizard
8 жыл бұрын
That's right, the fuck-making industry collapsed in the Renaissance ever since which any fucks have to be imported.
@Wavemaninawe
8 жыл бұрын
+theBaconWizard Thats a lie. The British never had a fuck-making industry to begin with. They have imported their custom made fucks since day one and cynically kept them under close watch, with no prospects of fuck charity.
@apropercuppa8612
8 жыл бұрын
Catasstrophy, European powers fighting constantly kept Europe strong. We developed much faster than every other continent. We were so busy trying to outdo each other, that when someone got ahead, everyone quickly raced to match - then beat them. A good reference would be, Paul Kennedy's : The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers, to put it into persepective. Look at it now..
@MrChickennugget360
8 жыл бұрын
China did not "remain behind" Europe, they were ahead of Europe for most of their histroy but Europe surpassed them in the 1700's
@MrChickennugget360
8 жыл бұрын
you don't know what your talking about.
@shikiaura
6 жыл бұрын
"How dare you say that we can't hold meetings in the battlefield? We're British! The bullets wouldn't dare-" -The unfinished battle cry of the British general.
@funstuff2006
7 жыл бұрын
"As I was saying, our Colonel leaped up like a youngster of ten: 'Come on lads!' he shouts, 'and we'll show 'em.' And he sprang to the head of the men. Then some bally thing seemed to trip him, and he fell on his face with a slam . . . Oh, he died like a true British soldier, and the last word he ut- tered was 'Damn!' And hang it! I loved the old fellow, and something just burst in my brain, And I cared no more for the bullets than I would for a shower of rain." From "Afternoon Tea," by Robert Service.
@dafoex
Жыл бұрын
I find it somehow funny that I've all of a sudden discovered a couple of Service's poems from seemingly disconnected sources. The other was a piece of electronic music that included an except of "Laughter". It's kind of like the old saying about waiting for a bus.
@txm100
8 жыл бұрын
"It doesn't matter in terms of getting shot if you stand or duck" - Lindybeige, defying physics and common sense since 2007.
@jwadaow
8 жыл бұрын
Personal experience?
@txm100
8 жыл бұрын
Yeah I somehow keep watching his videos.
@sammycw2000
8 жыл бұрын
I think he meant the likelyhood of you being shot is the same in the open whether you're ducking or not.
@jwadaow
8 жыл бұрын
A shot passing at upper body height high will miss but a shot at the midriff will pass through more internal organs.
@benjules5681
8 жыл бұрын
So go ahead and duck in open ground and see if ur as likely of getting shot by an accurate rifle than someone that's not
@beardlessodin945
3 жыл бұрын
You shouldn't be merely _sponsored_ by *Audible,* rather, you should indeed be _employed_ by them. You're one of my favourite storytellers of all time. You'd be perfect for narration.
@NonApplicable1983
8 жыл бұрын
Do British officers goose?
@trucid2
8 жыл бұрын
The French officers chicken.
@thomaster8870
8 жыл бұрын
No, the French fry. hahahahHAhahAHAAHaHaAhAHaAAa!!!!
@Slarti
8 жыл бұрын
I think it was standard operating procedure of WWI generals to goose their troops.
@titanuranus3095
8 жыл бұрын
They don't, neither do they grouse but they may crane and swanning might be tolerated.
@Sypanite
8 жыл бұрын
Tyger, tyger
@capcompass9298
5 жыл бұрын
Richard Meinhertzhagen (good British name, and I believe his decendents work in The City) strode up to the forces of the Mad Madhi who were waiting for the order to charge, waved his swagger stick at them, admonished them for fighting on a Sunday (Holy Day) "We didn't attack you on Friday; have the decency to postpone your attack until tomorrow", then strode back to the British lines and the Madhi's stunned men duly took the rest of the day off before massing for "business as usual" on the Monday morn.
@konstantinosnikolakakis8125
9 ай бұрын
I don’t believe Meinherzhagen fought the Mahdists, considering that he wasn’t even in the Army by the time that war wrapped up.
@Hank..
3 жыл бұрын
"Arent you being shot at?" "Oh nevermind that"
@thomasbarnett2425
6 жыл бұрын
"all of me to aim at, and still went for your head." i died
@jeremyharris4021
3 жыл бұрын
The officer standing on the ground probably wasn't visible to the sniper by the sounds
@SimonsDiscoveries
8 жыл бұрын
Ducking makes a huge difference. First of all you're a half size target. More difficult to hit a 3 than 6 foot tall object wouldn't you agree? Second, your'e a lot more likely to avoid being hit by shrapnels which tend to fly upward from where they originate.
@kirotheavenger60
8 жыл бұрын
the further you duck the less comfortable and the slower you move
@warrik3958
8 жыл бұрын
You're also slower, and moving you head towards the biggest target.... Your belly.
@valleyshrew
8 жыл бұрын
I agree, but you're forgetting that the smaller a target you make the more likely your comrades are to be hit, thus why they disliked it. They wanted everyone to act as equally sized human shields for each other.
@thatchris1626
8 жыл бұрын
if your ducking and you get hit, the bullet has more well.. of you to go through thus more lethal
@Jakers457
8 жыл бұрын
Ducking while your knee deep in blood and mud probably wouldn't help
@Lukania
4 жыл бұрын
"Don't bother ducking, the men don't like it, and it doesn't do any good". "[...] his body was never found".
@Fiddling_while_Rome_burns
8 жыл бұрын
A friend of mine in the current British army assures me British officers don't do this any more, staying well out of enemy fire and ordering the men into danger is the norm for them these days.
@JudgeEomer
8 жыл бұрын
The army has Health and Safety regulations these days.
@Geothesponge111
8 жыл бұрын
Ahhh yes, telling your troops to avoid getting shot at when faced with weaponry that's far more deadly than what they had in World War 1... It's Health and Safety gone mad!
@cyclone8974
8 жыл бұрын
seems like he said the opposite though
@ignotumperignotius630
8 жыл бұрын
the British army aside from the world wars, has usually been small and professional
@devoyinator
8 жыл бұрын
Well a friend of yours is wrong. Have you seen the amount of officers who died during the Gulf Wars and Afghanistan? And unless you're an army legal officer in the Adjutant General's Corps, 2nd Lieutenants, Lieutenants, and Captains are not able to sit in a base and order men into danger. They are leaders of their units, especially infantry officers. They would be discharged if they ordered their soldiers to patrol without them. It just doesn't happen.
@greva2904
6 жыл бұрын
In one of Spike Milligan’s war memoirs (I forget which one) his CO Major Chatterjack is giving a talk to his heavy artillery unit, in Africa if I remember (may have been Italy). A German shell screams through the air and explodes nearby. The entire unit EXCEPT for Chatterjack throw themselves to the floor. The major remains standing throughout. The men sheepishly climb to their feet, embarrassed that their unshakable CO clearly had more nerve than them. Chatterjack then declares: ‘Of course, you realise that you men did the right, and I the wrong’ and then continues his talk as if nothing had happened. As Milligan comments, ‘What can you say to a man like that?’
@nicktrains2234
5 жыл бұрын
I remember those books fondly. Shame the war drove him insane
@jonjones1553
5 жыл бұрын
Grev thankyou. Spike's books back up this video. I'm going to read them again. My Mum told me that she was in the front row of a concert in Shrewsbury donkeys years ago and Spike knicked one of her shoes. She never got it back. We used to watch Q45678 etc, and we would totally crack up. Dad used to just glare at us.
@NobleNemesis
5 жыл бұрын
Right! Its not that the Officers wished to die or thought that they wouldn't.., only that they believe it will simply happen regardless, should it be their fate. This boosts morale. I think it's clever psychology.
@Briselance
5 жыл бұрын
"The men sheepishly climb to their feet, embarrassed that their unshakable CO clearly had more nerve than them." The officer didn't have more nerve. He was just uselessly reckless. For an officer, ricking your own life like this is flamboyant, but stupid and useless. And thus, should be avoided.
@MrMenefrego1
4 жыл бұрын
"You're an idiot", would be a proper response.
@daca8395
7 жыл бұрын
Serbian officers befor charge issued order "follow me" instead of "forward". Every military tradition has its way of rising moral.
@Br1cht
6 жыл бұрын
Was that what your Turkish overlord thought;)
@harryzgeezah7162
6 жыл бұрын
Danilo Popović Serbian officers are cowards who are only good at fighting unarmed civilians.
@PaunCovek
6 жыл бұрын
Harry you shouldn't read biased untruthful history books. If any unarmed civilians were killed on the Balkans chances are they were Serbs. Not playing the victim card, sure not all out officers were angels, but Croatians celebrating operation 'Oluja (Storm)', the operation in which they killed 1500 unarmed Serbs and NATO 'accidentally' bombing us (Belgrade specifically) in WW2 is just a hint at the truth. Edit: If you even care to read this I would also like to add that Serbia stood against the Nazis unlike some of our neighbors who threw flowers in front of their tanks and happily obliged to take civilians to death camps.
@MrKilllol
6 жыл бұрын
Don't read biased untruthful history books, read untruthful history books which comply to my bias! yuck
@PaunCovek
6 жыл бұрын
What exactly is biased in my comment? You can check everything I said, maybe try wikipedia, should be no bias there, right?
@whynotanyting
5 жыл бұрын
Mentioned Media: 6:14 - Mailed Fist by John Foley 9:39 - Tank! by Ken Tout 12:22 - A Bridge Too Far (1977) by Dickie Attenborough 15:01 - The River War by Winston Churchill 16:14 - The Junior Officers' Reading Club by Patrick Hennessey
@captainroger
3 жыл бұрын
Nice one
@jamesdear3496
7 жыл бұрын
"I am one with the force, and the force is with me"
@shorelockhomes943
6 жыл бұрын
L.O.L. Good one. Good song too.
@germanyandfcbayern5791
5 жыл бұрын
الله قوات سمير وبس
@PhilipKDuck-je7cx
8 жыл бұрын
Waterloo: "Sir Napoleon is in range, shall we fire?" Arthur Wellesley "No, it is not the business of generals to shoot at one another!"
@Beriorn
8 жыл бұрын
My favorite British officers story is from a few years back, when a report came out that showed that a single rogue British officer could, with nothing more but a screwdriver, some minor knowhow and malcontent in his heart, activate and ready one or more of the nuclear warheads that the British have access to. There was a bit of fuss about this, with people citing security risks. The military was a bit indignant about this, claiming that it would go against an officer's honor and code of conduct to plunge the world into nuclear annihilation without express orders to do so from command. This pretty much closed the argument for the military, and not an awful lot of fuss came from this.
@kokofan50
8 жыл бұрын
Here in the US somebody figure out how to do that with a spoon and some string decades ago.
@arthurdent6256
8 жыл бұрын
Over in America they just leave theirs in parking lots.
@batt3ryac1d
8 жыл бұрын
not as bad as the Americans. They've literally accidentally dropped them on their own soil.
@ElementalOctopus
8 жыл бұрын
It was ONE TIME! And it fell into a swamp, doesn't really count as "soil"...
@batt3ryac1d
8 жыл бұрын
ElementalOctopus What about the time they lost one on a commercial runway for a month.
@abyssaljam441
8 жыл бұрын
It's good that you specified 'Moaning minnies' when you sayed minnies. As late fiftys cars are not very good ordnance.
@kirotheavenger60
8 жыл бұрын
im not so sure, I wouldn't want one landing on my head
@Warclam
8 жыл бұрын
The muzzle velocity isn't up where you'd like it to be, though.
@willynthepoorboys2
8 жыл бұрын
The Americans called them screaming miemies(Sounds like me me's,likely I butchered the spelling)
@KinkyPinkFemboiAlex
8 жыл бұрын
And also wernt invented!
@txgunguy2766
8 жыл бұрын
+willynthepoorboys2 It's screaming mimi which is also an extremely loud alarm clock OTR truckers use.
@davidmicheletti6292
8 жыл бұрын
A wonderful presentation but you'll have to forgive me I'll duck.
@arthurdent6256
8 жыл бұрын
Ducking is for panseys who care about getting shot or not. ;)
@crwydryny
8 жыл бұрын
you wimp, stand tall man and look they couldn't even hit an elephant at this dis
@gorisenke
8 жыл бұрын
+crwydryny sir, you're bleeding all over the ground!
@thedepartmentofvillainy
7 жыл бұрын
But sir your missing a arm...
@theirishrave6448
7 жыл бұрын
NONSENSE SOLDIER! I've SEEN WORSE!
@Alex-lf1cl
8 жыл бұрын
Harambe didn't duck Look where he is now... He is a god now, so moral of the story is die a martyr
@khanman196
8 жыл бұрын
Of all the places to comment a harambe meme you choose this channel. For shame, for shame. What's say in your defense.
@aetherblades2368
8 жыл бұрын
Hope he doesn't duck, I heard it doesn't help.
@lordbinkythebuffoon5465
8 жыл бұрын
Don't let your memes be dreams
@VictorKyalo
8 жыл бұрын
amen #dicksout
@amorembalming
8 жыл бұрын
pre ducked is my favourite phrase.
@danyael777
4 жыл бұрын
"Takes more than combatgear to make a man, takes more than the license for a gun. Confront your enemies, avoid them when you can. A gentleman will walk but never run."
@kayallen7603
Жыл бұрын
running attracts the eye... walking doesn't. Even better, try moseying away.
@dafoex
Жыл бұрын
But no hurtling. Hargreaves found that out the hard way.
@itstheeconomy2101
8 жыл бұрын
How dare you putting french in small characters, they had 5000 more men and 12 more guns than the British.
@404killer
8 жыл бұрын
looooooool
@georgebowyer5170
8 жыл бұрын
Yeah but there french ....
@studiotoggle
8 жыл бұрын
Doesn't mean they actually did any fighting.
@EeroVuori
8 жыл бұрын
French surplus rifle markets: Never fired, only dropped once.
@giovanni-cx5fb
8 жыл бұрын
It's a recurring thing in his channel to take the piss out of the french. I lost my shit when I saw that text.
@igneous061
8 жыл бұрын
how about a guy who went on normandy with longsword? :D :D
@Arquinsiel
8 жыл бұрын
Two different men there, but yes, both Jack Churchill and Simon Fraser, 15th Lord Lovat were total badasses (as was Bill Millin, who played said pipes).
@Arquinsiel
8 жыл бұрын
dimapez Bill Millin was Simon Fraser's personal piper so was with No.4 Commando the whole time. By D-day Jack Churchill (himself a bagpiper player) was either in Yugoslavia with No.43 Commando or a POW camp. It's easy to get stuff like that mixed up though, because all of them were low-level enough and engaged in so much incredibly badass shit that the stories aren't as well known as others.
@MartinTraXAA
8 жыл бұрын
Wasn't a longsword, but a basket-hilted broadsword ^^
@davidsmart8594
7 жыл бұрын
...otherwise known as a 'Claymore'.
@Arquinsiel
7 жыл бұрын
David Smart no, claymores were different and rather a lot larger. The clue is in the name.
@SK4M_Freal
4 жыл бұрын
"War doesn't determine who's right, War just determines who's left!"
@apollyonkatastrefia1586
5 жыл бұрын
Lord Nelson comes to mind. " My love of King & country keeps me warm, Aubrey pass the salt."
@pantoastado1264
5 жыл бұрын
This is the most British thing I have ever heard
@pibloackbar5420
5 жыл бұрын
Back when lindybeige was suprised by having a sponsorship
@Native_love
7 жыл бұрын
I remember my High School teacher telling me stories about Vietnam and how a Sioux Soldier wouldn't duck. He was fearless under fire! :-)
@poppedweasel
6 жыл бұрын
Lord Uxbridge nailed it: "By God, sir, I've lost my leg!" And Wellington's reply, equally British. "By God, sir, so you have!" No matter if apocryphal, it's inspiring!
@Tonks143
3 жыл бұрын
Just read Tank! by Ken Tout, amused to find the very next sentence after what lloyd read was "...a clear watch. Whilst I am still squaring my shoulders and feeling slightly braver, the most appaling crash yet, the most fightening flash yet, shatters my new-found resolution."
@Ozymandias3505
7 жыл бұрын
That was a fantastic Churchill impression.
@SoWe1
8 жыл бұрын
ah this is such a nice example of how men are objectified - they're not persons in war, they're just assets and even their deaths are deemed "beneficial" sometimes
@yourleftnostril835
8 жыл бұрын
+SoWeMeetAgain So, we meet again.
@warewolf435
8 жыл бұрын
that _is_ how war works. If you want equality in war, then I suppose work for objectifying women in the same way.
@qwertyuiopzxcfgh
8 жыл бұрын
Well, yes, in war, soldiers are not seen as individuals, in fact, the whole point of their training is that they don't think as individuals.
@SoWe1
8 жыл бұрын
Huehuehue yeah, for example the best way to get rid of the draft is to make it mandatory for women, too. Immediately the draft will be viewed as outdated and needing to be abolished.
@G96Saber
8 жыл бұрын
Oh poor you.
@dietcoke759
Жыл бұрын
"We stand tall on the quarterdeck, son. All of us." - Captain Jack Aubrey
@jonkrieger5271
7 жыл бұрын
I am so subbing to you man, saw your awesome stirling engine vid and now this one and I am hooked! Time to binge!
@blazednlovinit
7 жыл бұрын
Welcome to the beige army, matey.
@SuperCompany007
7 жыл бұрын
That is the lamest army ever. "Beige" army, wooooh striking fear :^)))
@Nerdious_Maximus
7 жыл бұрын
Jon Krieger did you come from Cody'sLab?
@blazednlovinit
7 жыл бұрын
@small, It was used by the British army when the British owned 1/3rd of the planet... xD
@JunkCCCP
7 жыл бұрын
Jon Krieger Lindybinge
@oddish2253
8 жыл бұрын
Next video should be how to persuade Indians and Africans to fight for the British Empire.
@mechanicalturk5202
8 жыл бұрын
Step one, Subjugate them.
@kis5140
8 жыл бұрын
Step two, shoot an elephant.
@elsasslotharingen7507
8 жыл бұрын
Step two, Propaganda
@HaNsWiDjAjA
8 жыл бұрын
Simple really. Africans and Indians back then did not see themselves as Africans and Indians. They see themselves as Zulus, Kikuyus, Maasai, Sikhs, Pathans, Rajputs and Gurkhas. They generally hated their neighbors even more than they hated the British, since they have been having blood feuds with them for centuries longer. The British generally treated the 'martial races' quite well, and they paid their troops well and regularly and provide them with excellent training and equipment that makes them victorious more often than not. If you see yourself as a warrior by birthright whose reason for existence is to vanquish your enemy (as most of these people think of themselves), why would you not want to serve in the British military? Plus in India at least, the tradition of mercenary service went way back before the British period. The muslim Mughal emperor Akbar had many loyal hindu Rajput warriors serving him, and the hindu Vijayanagaran rulers had many Pathan mercenaries as well. So for the Rajputs and the Pathans to be serving the British as well is a no brainer, especially when the British is constantly winning. "If you cant beat them, join them."
@dogdooish
7 жыл бұрын
Nice to see you know your History ! :) Top Marks !
@charlesdavidson4815
8 жыл бұрын
Gen. John Sedgwick (my ex wife's ancestor) had the best last words ever; "They couldn't hit an elephant at this distance." General John Sedgwick (September 13, 1813 - May 9, 1864) was a teacher, a career military officer, and a Union Army general in the American Civil War, killed by a Confederate sharp-shooter at the Battle of Spotsylvania Court House.
@chrismc410
5 жыл бұрын
They'll duck if their RSM tells them to. Officers of any military will listen their senior NCOs if they know what's good for them.
@yellowmaskdude553
8 жыл бұрын
I guess British officers knew about battle stress.
@allanrobertson8909
3 жыл бұрын
I think this is one of the best videos on youtube. Whenever someone asks me for some good educational youtube content I send them this video.
@WreckItRolfe
8 жыл бұрын
Churchill was supposed to have been a brave bastard.
@Peorhum
8 жыл бұрын
Easy to be brave, in a regiment of brave men.
@dirtydan8576
8 жыл бұрын
Well I guess they were both of each
@batt3ryac1d
8 жыл бұрын
He was always wasted as is the British way, which is where his courage came from.
@eelitanskanen8836
8 жыл бұрын
He was also a rather inefficient naval officer. And military strategist, being one of the masterminds of the infamous Gallipoli campaign in World War 1. :)
@georgepatient7710
8 жыл бұрын
did seem to learn from his mistakes though, thats better than some of french high command
@blastforth
5 жыл бұрын
I heard a Brit NCO cuss out a young soldier who forgot to make sure his weapon was unloaded after going off guard duty. It was the most awesome cursing I ever heard.
@lib556
6 жыл бұрын
Not just British. Look at Cpt "Bucky" O'Neil of the Roughriders in Cuba. Concerned soldier "Cap shouldn't you get down?" O'Neil nonchalantly smoking cigarette: "Spanish bullet ain't been made can hit me" Promptly shoot through the mouth and killed.
@ZGryphon
6 жыл бұрын
"They couldn't hit an elephant at this dist"
@mandowarrior123
5 жыл бұрын
Wasn't a spanish bullet xD import xD
@Briselance
5 жыл бұрын
@@mandowarrior123 Still shot by a Spanish servicemember, though. :-)
@Briselance
5 жыл бұрын
Soldier muttering: "Fucking idiot". :-P
@Briselance
5 жыл бұрын
"Spanish bullet ain't been made can hit me" It sound atrociously misbuilt, for a captain. :-P
@Adam-ni6ne
8 жыл бұрын
Continuing in the tradition of his father of leading troops from the front, Theodore Roosevelt Jr. was the only Allied general to personally lead troops onto the beaches of Normandy during Operation Overlord, at Utah Beach. He went in with the first wave of troops, and was standing up and directing forces as the battle raged around him. He survived the battle, greeted other generals as they made it to shore after the fighting on the beach was done, and was recommended for the Medal of Honor (which he won). During the attack, he was old enough to need a cane. He died a month later he died from a heart attack. Apparently during the invasion, he also kept troops calm by telling them stories about his father, Theodore Roosevelt.
@Hiraghm
3 жыл бұрын
Those were silly orders about having meetings in range of the French... what're the French going to do about it... run away at them?
@jamesmasonaltair1062
4 жыл бұрын
Monty Python's Meaning of Life illustrates this "don't duck" principle in a most dramatic and hilarious way. The comedy skit is reminiscent of the British officers in the serious movie, Zulu. This movie clearly showed this uniquely British pluck. Thousands of angry Zulus and the officers are cool as ice! Adrian Carton de Wiart exemplied the pluck of the British officer corp. He fought in three wars over 6 decades (the Boer War, WWI, and WWII). In WWI, having previously lost an eye and a hand in battle, Carton de Wiart, as commanding officer, was seen by his men pulling the pins of grenades out with his teeth and hurling them with his one good arm during the Battle of the Somme, winning the Victoria Cross. This is just one of a myriad examples of his IDGAF about incoming rounds attitude. This American loves his British cousins and America has no better friend than Britain. No better feeling in Afghanistan than to link up with Brits or Aussies. Rule Britannia and Pax Americana forever!
@wilsonhuber
4 жыл бұрын
I hope someone flattened the ends of those cotter pins on those grenades he pulled out with his teeth - otherwise he'd only be able to eat pablum in the morning!! (it's usually only Americans who do this & only in the movies. )
@maximilienrobespierre7927
8 жыл бұрын
Basically, those Generals were doing the same thing as Rommel, except that he didn't get himself KIA.
@VincentiusSmith
8 жыл бұрын
Not surprising. Rommel was quite brave comparatively. Only high ranking German who would shoot enemies who weren't blindfolded and tied up.
@nilloc93
8 жыл бұрын
I don't think Rommel ever took a direct role in battle after being promoted to a staff officer position
@maximilienrobespierre7927
8 жыл бұрын
nilloc93 Yet he was always with his troops.
@fuckingpippaman
8 жыл бұрын
After reading, unfortunately, just a part of his ''diary'' on WW1's Caporetto, i guess he actually may had the right to.
@skbee3393
4 ай бұрын
There is a sea shanty called admiral Benbow, after the dudes legs were blown off by chain shot he asked to be placed up on a chair so he could face his enemy while he died.”
@Blitz-0012
6 жыл бұрын
"The only time you'll see a British Officer's head go down is when the elevation of the land dips first! That or he's been shot" - Pretty much sums it up.
@puupaa1993
8 жыл бұрын
Yes! All the Lindybeige videos are pleasurement for me.
@pinkliongaming8769
2 жыл бұрын
"It's no use ducking the bullets have already passed you" Good thing the enemy army only has one bullet
@dafoex
Жыл бұрын
To be fair to Churchill in WWI most of the rifles were bolt action and had to be loaded one bullet at a time. Move quick and you'll be away while the hun still has his sights blocked by the lifted bolt.
@dafoex
Жыл бұрын
Come to think of it, I might be wrong implying they were all breech loaders, but the handle of the bolt did block the sights on German rifles of the time.
@andrewcombe8907
Жыл бұрын
Even better was the Piper who followed Lord Lovat on DDay. He stood in the open playing the bagpipes without a scratch. Germans later said they didn’t shoot him as they thought he was insane.
@TheEndKing
8 жыл бұрын
What if British officers have to fight in a small, waist-high enclosure and aren't able to stand up to their full height, but also don't wish to completely crouch down to the earth?
@mergele1000
8 жыл бұрын
They sit down and shuffle forward.
@hi-im-kerri
8 жыл бұрын
Like a dog, wiping it's arse.
@DylanJo123
8 жыл бұрын
+Kerrigan Fairbairn thanks for the wonderful mental image
@perspectivedetective
8 жыл бұрын
In such a situation, the enclosure shall be inspired to rise and accommodate the officer.
@elliotclose6038
8 жыл бұрын
Well he plows right through it creating something that looks like it is from Hole In The Wall
@Fullmetalmikey
7 жыл бұрын
Just found this channel, love this guy. He's like the Vsauce of war history.
@AS-zg7fw
4 жыл бұрын
I like how you give a bit of personality to the stories with accents and general enthusiasm. Puts a bit more life in them.
@DaneStolthed
8 жыл бұрын
Additionally, Prince Charles in 1994 didn't even flinch when 2 shots were fired at him. Astounding...
@dabtican4953
5 жыл бұрын
When was this?
@dabtican4953
5 жыл бұрын
Don't say 1994 lol I mean like can I get a link or something
@allanfifield8256
5 жыл бұрын
From Wikipedia: In 1994, aged 23, Kang fired two blank shots from a starting pistol at Charles, Prince of Wales, during an Australia Day speech at Tumbalong Park, Darling Harbour in Sydney on 26 January 1994.[3]
@iamwhoimnotimnotwhoiam4431
3 жыл бұрын
I dunno why, but i think lindy here is the closest thing we're ever gonna get to a real life Indiana Jones.
@JacobKloutier
7 жыл бұрын
You make history very interesting. Thank you for sharing stories.
@owaingriffiths4416
7 жыл бұрын
Cos they don't want to get their nice and clean uniforms a bit muddy.
@mart4144
4 жыл бұрын
In WW1, the Bulgarian general staff issued an order to prevent all officers of the infantry to go ahead of their men. This was done later in the war, as Bulgaria had lost most of its good officers, due to them charging too bravely. As funny as it is, they could get in deep trouble for doing it, yet many Lieutenants and Captains still charged in front of their men. It really boosts the morale of the men when they see their leader not fearing death. Great video.
@bokvarv1926
7 жыл бұрын
I would imagine this would also have an effect on lowering enemy morale. seeing an officer, or anyone for that matter in the heat of things strolling about like a sunday in hyde park would make gustav tink the brits were either bonkers or really so good at this war thing that did no really care....that is scary for any enemy
@thescoutpanda
5 жыл бұрын
my great grandad used to tell me during the war his captain would just sit out in the open with a portable table and chair he'd have brought everywhere with him, drinking a cup of tea as bold as brass. literally while getting shot at. i always used to think maybe he was exaggerating or fibbing, but now you've made me think twice. british officers were crazy
@calbanar
8 жыл бұрын
Why is there so much hate towards the french in the comments?
@Karelwolfpup
8 жыл бұрын
because the French are the French, seems perfectly logical to me, BAAAAA!
@jean-barbe7340
8 жыл бұрын
Karelwolfpup ... You know boursin? Not that it is a particularly refined cheese, but still, I'm impressed that you actually know something about real food, you classy disgusting flabby pudding-eating treacherous backstabbing son of a drunk overpolite pluviophile hamster. :)
@Karelwolfpup
8 жыл бұрын
JeanPierreXV Review of course I know it, those damned ads are never off my television! but of course that's how you like it, isn't it, you eclectic electric donkey bottom biter! you won't be happy until we're all chain smoking in film noir while waxing poetic about philosophical bullshit, isn't that so, you son of a window dresser! XDD Lord it is hard to talk so much bollocks XDD then again, I do like Boursin, especially with some Parma ham in a tortilla wrap with some olives and salad with a little mayo ^w^
@pumbar
8 жыл бұрын
I wouldn't say it was hate, more a sort of mild disapproval coupled with a distaste for cavalier attitudes toward personal hygiene.
@Undamagedaddyk
8 жыл бұрын
I don't know, but as I brit, I'm well aware of our sacred and most holy right to take the piss out of the French.
@holocenemusica
3 жыл бұрын
My my, I thought I had a good Irish accent with the early 1900’s. No, Lindy’s accent is like a scent in the wind.
@holocenemusica
3 жыл бұрын
@@RyakkiBaka No it was Irish, he states it was Irish mate.
@suddenuprising
8 жыл бұрын
Isn't it possible, or even likely, that the accounts found in the war memoirs are hyperbole designed for literary effect rather than historical accuracy?
@usazar
8 жыл бұрын
Some could be but I've read accounts from Indian soldiers who fought the Brits in 1857. So when your enemies record it there is some truth to it
@miskatonic6210
7 жыл бұрын
Doglyvich Seriously who writes memoires to be historical correct? Who can say he is objective after your friends have been slaughtered by the other side?
@proberts34
4 жыл бұрын
The term "suicidal courage" comes to mind.
@johaneriksandberg
8 жыл бұрын
Where does Lord Commander Mormont fit in to your collage of animal pictures? The old bear Mormont?
@burningphoneix
8 жыл бұрын
He explains it in the video "Apologising to James Cosmo".
@johaneriksandberg
8 жыл бұрын
burningphoneix Well look at that, ha! thank you.
@jameswoodard2386
8 жыл бұрын
an American version of that kind of memoir would have the officer killed in the middle of the conversation leaving the narrator to think the officer was being an arrogant idiot. Ironically, we Americans do look fondly on stories of Washington or Lee (the American Civil War General, not the Brit from the Revolutionary War) riding their big white horses up at the battle lines and coming back to have the junior officers point out how many bullet-holes the general had in his coat and hat. Since snipers became much more likely to actually hit their targets in more recent engagements, however, such over-brave behavior in an officer would probably reek of elitest idiocy more than exemplary bravery.
@Cringe_Lord
3 жыл бұрын
Average officers in wars: *ducking for cover* British officers: *casually taking a stroll through a volley of gunfire*
@elonhusk5203
5 жыл бұрын
British officers are the most nuts officers in ww2
@Sir_Stalwart
4 жыл бұрын
I wouldn't say most nuts. Just on another very significant level of nuts.
@BruceForte
8 жыл бұрын
I'd rather duck that die.
@safehavenonice6431
8 жыл бұрын
The gist of the argument is that if you can hear incoming fire, it's already to late to react, and if you're in a barrage and you don't have cover to duck behind (i.e. you don't have a wall that comes up to your eyeballs) it won't matter much if you make your profile slightly smaller and the opponent can shoot worth a damn. Also keep in mind that soldiers are generally instructed to aim for the center of mass; the goal is to stop the enemy from fighting back, not so much outright kill them, and the torso is a much easier target.
@lepathewarrior4445
8 жыл бұрын
>that
@CursetheVandal
8 жыл бұрын
Mate its ww1 they are running across no mans sky hes busing holding his 17 to 19 year old men together and marching forward u aint worried about ducking
@sabberi
8 жыл бұрын
Pish. Ducks are mortal.
@demonsoul1174
7 жыл бұрын
running across no man's sky? who even plays that shit of a game..
@jameslangham9854
4 жыл бұрын
Very useful thank you - I have linked to this on an online course I'm doing "From Waterloo to the Rhine: The British Army 1815-1945."
@Joshua-hz3cl
7 жыл бұрын
Well US army ranger officers dont duck, they drown. sorry really dark joke.
@Aziz-vd3bm
7 жыл бұрын
Joshua relax man
@asmrdegeneracy946
7 жыл бұрын
Joshua can u explain the joke to me bro
@Joshua-hz3cl
7 жыл бұрын
US Army rangers where sent to normandy beach, nearly 35% of the first wave drowned to death.
@commander31able60
6 жыл бұрын
Joshua i thought its because they’re army, not marines...
@princesstinklepanties2720
6 жыл бұрын
commander31able A ranger is like a marine to an infantry man.
@rooo9802
5 жыл бұрын
Major-General Charles George Gordon CB (28 January 1833 - 26 January 1885), also known as Chinese Gordon, Gordon Pasha, and Gordon of Khartoum was Governor-General of the Sudan. While he was under siege in Khartoum he wrote a memoir. The memoir was smuggled out of Khartoum before it fell. In the memoir Gordon tells us that there was a debate among the officers as to whether they should duck. The officers standing on the walls of Khartoum could see the musket balls coming toward them and thought that it was no disgrace to duck. Gordon was writing twenty years after the end of the American Civil War and seventy years after Waterloo. I have never read anything on the attitude to ducking in the American Civil War. I do know that it would not have been acceptable in Napoleonic times. Soldiers during Napoleonic battles would just close ranks after a line of men was swept away by a cannon ball. Ducking by officers would encourage the same in the ranks, creating chaos in the tightly packed formations. In Napoleonic times officers exposing themselves was not exceptional. Officers were expected to set an example. Nelson at Trafalgar, or Wellington at Waterloo. At Waterloo Wellington began with an escort of nineteen men. During the battle all nineteen were shot down as Wellington rode around the battlefield. Wellington’s staff were shot off their horses one by one. By the end of the battle, Wellington was riding alone.
@BoxxerCore
7 жыл бұрын
You remind me of the man who presents Scrapheap Challenge, Robert Llewellyn.
@guyjones4936
5 жыл бұрын
My favorite two films are "A Bridge Too Far" and "The Battle of Britain".
@b.christytler4120
8 жыл бұрын
The idea of nonchalance under fire is ridiculous. Officers are much too valuable to risk. An officer's job isn't to be brave, it's to lead. They can't do that if they're dead. It's one thing to sacrifice for your men, it's one thing to lead from the front, it's one thing to lead by example, but it's completely different to commit suicide for the sake of morale. That doesn't help anyone. It's foolish. It's a waste, a waste of a life and of money and of your command. It's obscene for a general to act like that as you claim they did in WWI, because it takes years and millions of dollars and a rare type of person to make a general, and they're an incredibly important part of the machine, one that is absolutely essential and very difficult to replace. It's foolish to decapitate your command- as much as people don't like to admit it, the decision making and authority of even a lowly freshly minted butter bar can win a battle and save lives. You don't sacrifice that. People claim the British are deeply pragmatic, but that's hard to believe if this is really how they act.
@mgd8867
5 жыл бұрын
Death is a preferable alternative to cowardice. The British army will always have a command structure even if there is only two men left.
@Alf763
5 жыл бұрын
British officers are very capable of commanding from the front, the Germans did it too, that’s just how Europeans fight, and well there’s no point in laying down trying to sneak a look at an enemy position when you can simply have a smoke and take a stroll up to them instead, maybe Americans are just awfully good at getting shot?
@jeffprice6421
3 жыл бұрын
The River War is brilliant! Churchill's account of the devastatio wrought hundreds of yards away in a mad minute is the authoritative description.
@justforever96
6 жыл бұрын
It's amazing how hard it is to convince people that it's actually much more dangerous statisically for an officer, and far more of them died in battle. They have a fixed conviction that "upper class" people get cushy, safe jobs as officers while the poor men are sent out as cannon fodder. The British officers who were slaughtered in WWI were upper class, yes, but they paid dearly for their privilege. Even the generals who WERE leading from behind the lines (with good reason; with communications of the day it would have been tactically disastrous to try to command ten miles of line from a mile in the rear, even if you weren't killed throwing everything into chaos. It was bad enough even WITH the general staff to the rear in a communications hub equidistant to all the front line units). Of course, "general" isn't that high a rank in the whole scheme of thing. There is a brigadier general for every single brigade in the army, and they are quite far forward. When people think "general safe behind the lines", they are thinking of the HEAD general, the guy who commands the other generals. Anyway, officers may not be made up of entirely upper class men any more, but they STILL have the most dangerous job on the battlefield. You lead by placing yourself in danger (not by getting shot though; that doesn't actually help the men's morale much)
@myview5840
5 жыл бұрын
WW1 almost wiped out the British upper class due to the amount of officers killed. What actually changed was the officers were no longer allowed to dress any different than then men in combat. Parade ground and HQ still wore officer dress.
@jacobb.9181
4 жыл бұрын
This is near impossible to picture in my head lmao
@edwardelric4975
5 жыл бұрын
If total war has taught me anything, it's that losing leaders lowers morale.
@pretzelbomb6105
5 жыл бұрын
Unless they’re just that bad
@jakubcesarzdakos5442
5 жыл бұрын
What does a Secret Service agent says to his president when they are under attack? Donald! Duck!
@Briselance
5 жыл бұрын
X-D +1
@drunkenbarbarian8211
5 жыл бұрын
"To me 6 Commando" My Great Grandfathers final words, an officer that didn't duck.
@Briselance
5 жыл бұрын
"an officer that didn't duck." He should have. Respect for him, though.
@Oooo-bi7bi
Жыл бұрын
I thought Lions lead by donkeys referred to Haigs stubbornness to not change tactics and keep sending men over the top to walk towards machine guns.?
@bubaloow123
8 жыл бұрын
You're the most British person I've ever seen. Rivalled only by Stephen Fry.
@bremCZ
5 жыл бұрын
Would young sir like to wear a crevat on the cross country run?
@patrickzhang5430
5 жыл бұрын
I know this is late but British Officer: *Don’t Duck During Battle* Every Single Enemy Sniper and Machine gunner: Now this looks like a job for me
@TheCompleteMental
5 жыл бұрын
British infantrymen, snipers, tanks, and machine gunners: Allow us to introduce ourselves
@olliephelan
7 жыл бұрын
"Look at General Jackson standing there like a stone wall" (quoth some civil war dude, about Stonewall Jackson) )
@michaelmckinnon1591
3 жыл бұрын
Bernard E Bee said that at First Manassas (Bull Run) seconds before being killed
@olliephelan
3 жыл бұрын
@@michaelmckinnon1591 seconds before being killed ? Well, that must have dampened the effects his words had.
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