Bayonet Brits kill 35 rebels (Brits Go Hand To Hand 5 to 1)

The Sun ^ | 5-19-04

[My Favorite Headache]

OUTNUMBERED British soldiers killed 35 Iraqi attackers in the Army’s first bayonet charge since the Falklands War 22 years ago. The fearless Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders stormed rebel positions after being ambushed and pinned down.

Despite being outnumbered five to one, they suffered only three minor wounds in the hand-to-hand fighting near the city of Amara.

The battle erupted after Land Rovers carrying 20 Argylls came under attack on a highway.

After radioing for back-up, they fixed bayonets and charged at 100 rebels using tactics learned in drills.

Charge ... tactics from drills

When the fighting ended bodies lay all over the highway — and more were floating in a nearby river. Nine rebels were captured.

An Army spokesman said: “This was an intense engagement.”

The last bayonet charge was by the Scots Guards and the Paras against Argentinian positions.

[LayoutGuru2]

I wonder how many of them were found to have soiled their underpants prior to meeting Allah?

[Haymarket]

Remember, there's nothing worn under the kilt - it's all in working order!

[neverdem]

Anything requiring courage and honor is not for them.

I know this is out of context, but I can't resist. Which American political party does it most closely describe, the rats or the pubbies.

May I submit it's the pubbies dream, and the rats nightmare. After caving on the judicial nominees, I hope that this new tone ceases if Bush wins ree-election.

[metesky]

Well Scotty Boy, according to this site, a certain clan with which you may be aquainted, only wore the kilt to make it easier to store stolen lambs. Must be tough to walk with a lamb clenched between your thighs, eh?

Oh, and they were subservient to the clan of the notorious "Madame D".

[philman_36]

The fearless Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders stormed rebel positions after being ambushed and pinned down.
Brits? They're Scotts, not Brits!

[EricT.]

Why were 9 captured?

Maybe all the whining and crying and begging for mercy from such "brave Arab warriors of Allah" was just too comical and the Scots were laughing too hard to finish them off.

BTW, surely someone can come up with the shot from Braveheart where the Scots are lined up for battle and turn around to show the English what they thought of them.

[pau1f0rd]

They're Scotts, not Brits!

They're Scots and British.

[johnb838]

Cold Sheffield steel people don't like.

[johnb838]

"So it's pack-drill for me and a fortnight's C.B. For "drunk and resisting the Guard."

Funny, my daddy never taught me THAT one. Didn't learn of it in school either... hmmm...

[OXENinFLA]

An Army spokesman said: “This was an intense engagement.”

Oh, I bet he had a few other things to say in private.

[7thson]

Training and discipline!

[johnb838]

"speaking of bagpipes...how would anybody know a bagpipe is out of tune ?"

That reminds me.... what is the definition of perfect pitch?



(when you throw the bagpipes in the dumpster without touching the sides)

[johnb838]

Isn't that what the pipes were invented for, intimidating the enemy? Seems to me the Scots have always had an innate talent for psyops.

[StriperSniper]

I saw this just before I shut down last night. What we need is video of engagements like this to be broadcast all over Iraq and the rest of the jihadi world. Some say the jihadi are crazy, no, they are stupid. It is our guys(Coalition partners included) that are crazy, we do these things and expect to live. ;-)

[FreedomPoster]

Actually, if we're posting Kipling, I think this is more apropos; Fallujah comes to mind. It often seems we have forgotten these lessons:

The Grave of the Hundred Head
by Rudyard Kipling

There's a widow in sleepy Chester

Who weeps for her only son;

There's a grave on the Pabeng River,

A grave that the Burmans shun;

And there's Subadar Prag Tewarri

Who tells how the work was done.

A Snider squibbed in the jungle-

Somebody laughed and fled,

And the men of the First Shikaris

Picked up their Subaltern dead,

With a big blue mark in his forehead

And the back blown out of his head.

Subadar Prag Tewarri,

Jemadar Hira Lal,

Took command of the party,

Twenty rifles in all,

Marched them down to the river

As the day was beginning to fall.

They buried the boy by the river,

A blanket over his face-

They wept for their dead Lieutenant,

The men of an alien race-

They made a samadh¹ in his honour,

A mark for his resting-place.

For they swore by the Holy Water,

They swore by the salt they ate,

That the soul of Lieutenant Eshmitt Sahib

Should go to his God in state,

With fifty file of Burmans

To open him Heaven's Gate.

The men of the First Shikaris

Marched till the break of day,

Till they came to the rebel village

The village of Pabengmay-

A jingal² covered the clearing,

Caltrops hampered the way.

Subadar Prag Tewarri,

Biddin₈ them load with ball,

Halted a dozen rifles

Under the village wall;

Sent out a flanking-party

With Jemadar Hira Lal.

The men of the First Shikaris

Shouted and smote and slew,

Turning the grinning jingal

On to the howling crew.

The Jemadar's flanking-party

Butchered the folk who flew.

Long was the morn of slaughter,

Long was the list of slain,

Five score heads were taken,

Five score heads and twain;

And the men of the First Shikaris

Went back to their grave again,

Each man bearing a basket

Red as his palms that day,

Red as the blazing village-

The village of Pabengmay

And the "drip-drip-drip" from the baskets

Reddened the grass by the way

They made a pile of their trophies

High as a tall man's chin,

Head upon head distorted,

Set in a sightless grin,

Anger and pain and terror

Stamped on the smoke-scorched skin.

Subadar Prag Tewarri

Put the head of the Boh

On the top of the mound of triumph,

The head of his son below-

With the sword and the peacock banner

That the world might behold and know.

Thus the samadh was perfect,

Thus was the lesson plain

Of the wrath of the First Shikaris-

The price of white man slain;

And the men of the First Shikaris

Went back into camp again.

Then a silence came to the river,

A hush fell over the shore,

And Bohs that were brave departed,

And Sniders squibbed no more;

For the Burmans said

That a white man's head

Must be paid for with heads five-score.

[jonatron]

YES!

[537cant be wrong]

with apologies to sir alford lord tennison,
iraqis to the left of me, iraqis to the right of me, iraqis in front of me, and me mother-inlaw behind me, into to the valley of death charged the brave brit soldiers.

way to go british give em hell.

[Ragtime Cowgirl]

Posted and pinged, but look at this great response!

Thanks, My Favorite Headache. (^:

Thanks for continuing to ping your list to the good stuff, OXEN.

[537cant be wrong]

om my gosh,
funniest thing ive read in ages. thanks