To: SunkenCiv
remember your history...Flanders is a reference to the Belgian territory upon which the three battles of Ypres were fought. Passandaele I believe was the third of those battles, occurring in late 1917. It remains that it, as were most of the large land engagements, frightful slaughters brought on by generals and politicians trapped in the age of Napoleon and Bismark.
9 posted on
05/30/2005 9:05:42 PM PDT by
massatoosits
(just ask the Brits...)
To: massatoosits
roo, the old switche', to me. Thanks.
12 posted on
05/30/2005 9:19:51 PM PDT by
SunkenCiv
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To: massatoosits
Saw something on the history channel where Gen. George Marshall grabbed Pershing (the overall commander of the army) by the arm in front of the troops and held on to him until he was done berating him for the lack of material, planning, training, etc. from the higher ups. Instead of a court-marshall, Pershing took Marshall as his right-hand man.
19 posted on
05/31/2005 12:40:33 AM PDT by
geopyg
("It's not that liberals don't know much, it's just that what they know just ain't so." (~ R. Reagan))
To: massatoosits
The sad thing is that the western powers had sent observers to the US Civil War but learned nothing from that slaughter. Mix in machine guns and more trenches and you get WWI.
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