To: Valin
Probably the most accurate description of this battle is foung in John Keegan'sTHE FACE OF WAR". He has thoroughly reasearched it, and explains how the outnumbered and sickly English force managed to inflict such a hugely disproportionate number of casualties on the French (Hint- French arrogance had a little bit to do with it).
14 posted on
10/25/2003 7:34:15 AM PDT by
RANGERAIRBORNE
("De gustibus non disputandem est")
To: RANGERAIRBORNE
French? Arrogance?...Oh come on now.
"I do not dislike the French from the vulgar antipathy between neighbouring nations, but for their insolent and unfounded airs of superiority."
Horace Walpole, British letter-writer and memoirist
16 posted on
10/25/2003 7:41:23 AM PDT by
Valin
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