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Towton, the bloodbath that changed the course of English history. (Well worth reading)
The Sunday Times (UK) ^
| August 24, 2008
| AA Gill
Posted on 08/23/2008 7:45:39 PM PDT by PotatoHeadMick
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This is a fascinating article if you're into historical battles, AA Gill normally does restaurant and TV reviews but he's a good writer.
To: PotatoHeadMick
rising farmland, green corn and copses Whew, I couldn't believe it at first...I thought it read "corpses".
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posted on
08/23/2008 7:50:15 PM PDT
by
rfp1234
(Phodopus campbelli: household ruler since July 2007.)
To: PotatoHeadMick
By all contemporary accounts, allowing for medieval exaggeration, on this one Sunday between 20,000 and 30,000 men died. Just so that you grasp the magnitude, thats a more grievous massacre of British men than on the first day of the Somme. Without machineguns or shells, young blokes hacked, bludgeoned and trampled, suffocated and drowned. An astonishing 1% of the English population died in this field. The equivalent today would be 600,000. FYI!
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posted on
08/23/2008 7:57:05 PM PDT
by
2banana
(My common ground with terrorists - they want to die for islam and we want to kill them)
To: PotatoHeadMick
Thanks for this fascinating post.
L
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posted on
08/23/2008 7:57:52 PM PDT
by
Lurker
(Islam is an insane death cult. Any other aspects are PR to get them within throat-cutting range.)
To: PotatoHeadMick
WOW!!!!
GREAT article.
I’m a supporter of Richard III and would have been a Yorkist. Damn Lancstrians!!! Damn Tudors!!!!!
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posted on
08/23/2008 7:58:52 PM PDT
by
ZULU
(Non nobis, non nobis Domine, sed nomini tuo da gloriam. God, guts and guns made America great.)
To: ZULU
“Now is the winter of our discontent...”
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posted on
08/23/2008 8:07:43 PM PDT
by
Publius
(Another Republican for Obama -- NOT!!)
To: PotatoHeadMick
After a bit of argy-bargy, happy slapping, black dungeon-work and a couple of on-your-toes to the Continent, we get Henry V cocky sod and, more important, lucky sod who wins Agincourt but unluckily is then killed by the shits while his son is still a nipper.
Sometimes I admire British writing; sometimes it cracks me up, and sometimes it just leaves me scratching my 'ead.
To: the invisib1e hand
Right! What’s all this then!
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posted on
08/23/2008 8:12:24 PM PDT
by
ovrtaxt
(This election is like running in the Special Olympics. Even if McCain wins, we're still retarded.)
To: ovrtaxt
I say! What’d you say he was killed by?
To: PotatoHeadMick
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posted on
08/23/2008 8:15:26 PM PDT
by
Free Vulcan
(No prisoners. No mercy. Fight back or STFU!!!)
To: ZULU
Im a supporter of Richard III and would have been a Yorkist. Damn Lancstrians!!! Damn Tudors!!!!! Thanks to Shakespeare's hatchet job of 1593, Richard's reputation as "Dick the Bad" has endured to this day--and has been reinforced in films such as Tower of London (1962).
To: Fiji Hill
Shakespear was a great artist - but a Tudor lacky - and very BAD historian.
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posted on
08/23/2008 8:20:04 PM PDT
by
ZULU
(Non nobis, non nobis Domine, sed nomini tuo da gloriam. God, guts and guns made America great.)
To: PotatoHeadMick
Excellent article—about a piece of history I knew nothing about.
The slaughter that men have visited upon other men throughout the last 5,000 years makes one paue at the sheer magnitude of it, and its effects on society, on bloodlines, and on history.
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posted on
08/23/2008 8:25:11 PM PDT
by
exit82
(People get the government they deserve--and they are about to get it --in spades.)
To: 2banana
By all contemporary accounts, allowing for medieval exaggeration, on this one Sunday between 20,000 and 30,000 men died. In comparison, the Battle of Iwo Jima cost the lives of about 7,000 Americans and 21,000 Japanese.
To: PotatoHeadMick
Ping for a fresh start tomorrow... Looks like a fantastic read. Thanks for posting.
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posted on
08/23/2008 8:32:12 PM PDT
by
DariusBane
(Obamessiah the Assholian do not deny Him. (K-oneTexas creates assholian))
To: PotatoHeadMick
To: rfp1234
rising farmland, green corn and copsesWhew, I couldn't believe it at first...I thought it read "corpses".
And when the author writes corn, he probably means wheat or perhaps oats. It's a British meaning that always trips me up when I read it.
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posted on
08/23/2008 8:43:41 PM PDT
by
stripes1776
("That if gold rust, what shall iron do?" --Chaucer)
To: the invisib1e hand
I’m with you on that—have never heard the expression “argy-bargy” and am not sure what the writer means when he says Henry V was “killed by the shits”—unless he means dysentery or some such unfortunate disease. But I AM pretty sure what he means when he talks about Henry VI “hiding the pink sceptre”—and that line is hilarious!
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posted on
08/23/2008 9:03:51 PM PDT
by
milagro
To: PotatoHeadMick
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posted on
08/23/2008 9:04:33 PM PDT
by
Big Giant Head
(I should change my tagline to "Big Giant penguin on my Head")
To: milagro
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