To: lulu16
Interesting. Makes me think of that scene in “Patton”, in which he is walking around an ancient site in North Africa and recounting the Roman/Carthaginian wars that took place in the area and said he was a Roman soldier who fought there in that war (in a previous life).
8 posted on
09/04/2016 11:05:53 AM PDT by
OttawaFreeper
("If I had to go to war again, I'd bring lacrosse players" Conn Smythe)
To: OttawaFreeper
The dandy Xth is my regiment...
9 posted on
09/04/2016 11:07:06 AM PDT by
tet68
( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
To: OttawaFreeper
Africa and recounting the Roman/Carthaginian wars that took place in the area and said he was a Roman soldier who fought there in that war (in a previous life).I always thought the implication was that he'd fought for Carthage. When I was a kid, Hannibal was a hero of mine. But now, I tend to admire the Romans more for coming back from several horrific defeats at Hannibal's hands. Winning the Punic Wars really established Rome as a great empire.
23 posted on
09/04/2016 12:58:12 PM PDT by
Sans-Culotte
("Political Correctness is communist propaganda writ small" - Theodore Dalrymple)
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