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Bayonet Brits kill 35 rebels
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| 5/16/04
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Posted on 05/16/2004 8:46:27 PM PDT by 1066AD
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To: 1066AD
Wow. Looks like "Don't bring a knife to a gun fight" is superceded by "Don't piss off the Brits". Outstanding work.
To: GretchenM
No ambusher of coalition troops should be allowed to escape alive.
If they know that every attack they make is a suicide attack, their pool of potential volunteers will be very low.
Respond with overwhelming force.
This is a truly amazing story.
God bless these brave warriors and their families.
To: John Jorsett
Duh, 5 to 1 .... my bad math (or as Brits say, "Maths")
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posted on
05/16/2004 9:33:30 PM PDT
by
WOSG
(http://freedomstruth.blogspot.com - I salute our brave fallen.)
To: Brimack34
Stop this capturing stuff. No more prisoners. Great job though. The headline should have read: "Brits mount bayonet charge, 35 insurgents killed, 8 captured who later died of wounds suffered in battle"
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posted on
05/16/2004 9:34:44 PM PDT
by
antaresequity
(This is not the "War on Terror", Islam is the common denominator)
To: kerryveryscary
it is rather amazing that they charged 100 armed men and only got 3 minor wounds The "Ladies from Hell" are at it again.
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posted on
05/16/2004 9:34:54 PM PDT
by
tbpiper
To: 1066AD
It seems the Brits see this as it really is, WAR!
Our soldiers have too many restants put upon them.
Our country does not control our own press, and our soldiers have to act like this is some kind of "honor" battle like during the Civil war "field" battles where they would march and keep marching into cannons pointed straight at them while the front lines were picked off row by row.
To: Ursus arctos horribilis
Col. Joshua Chamberlain and the 10th Maine... I don't mean to pick nits, but to be historically accurate, it was the 20th Maine.
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posted on
05/16/2004 9:36:41 PM PDT
by
arm958
To: 1066AD
I'm only a trace Scot(mostly Irish), but I'll raise my glass to our Celtic and English cousins here.
88
posted on
05/16/2004 9:37:46 PM PDT
by
Dan from Michigan
("Today we did what we had to do. They counted on America being passive. They were wrong.” - Reagan)
To: tbpiper
The "Ladies from Hell" are at it again.
A few Gurkhas or extra Argylls and it could've been a clean sweep !
More than anything I think it shows what discipline and training can do against a rabble although sheer numbers will tell in the end if it goes on long enough.
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posted on
05/16/2004 9:40:31 PM PDT
by
1066AD
To: 1066AD
Wow! Those SOBs picked the wrong target this time.
90
posted on
05/16/2004 9:42:44 PM PDT
by
dougherty
(I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free. **-Michelangelo)
To: EternalVigilance
I forgot to requote this: "Despite being outnumbered five to one, they suffered only three minor wounds in the hand-to-hand fighting near the city of Amara."
Wow.
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posted on
05/16/2004 9:49:35 PM PDT
by
GretchenM
(No military in the history of the world has fought so hard and so often for the freedom of others.-W)
To: dougherty
Iraqis cry next to the grave of a dead family member as the body arrived for funeral ceremonies from the city of Amarah to the holy city of Najaf, Iraq, Sunday, May 16, 2004. At least 28 Iraqis died in recent fighting between British troops and gunmen loyal to radical cleric Muqtada al-Sadr, after a British patrol was ambushed between the southern cities of Amarah and Basra.
Armed Shiite militiamen lead a funeral procession as 22 killed Iraqis arrived from the city of Amarah to the holy city of Najaf, Iraq, Sunday May 16, 2004. At least 28 Iraqis died in recent fighting between British troops and gunmen loyal to radical cleric Muqtada al-Sadr, after a British patrol was ambushed between the southern cities of Amarah and Basra.
Some of those guys look pretty dejected...did they tell them they put bacon grease on their batons?
To: chookter
The Argyll & Sutherland Highlanders (Princess Louise's)
- 91st Argyllshire Highlanders raised in 1794. Saw service in South Africa Peninsula, Waterloo and India.
- 93rd Sutherland Highlanders raised in 1799. Saw service in New Orleans, Crimea including Balaklava, where they earned the nickname of the Thin Red Line and the Indian Mutiny where they won seven Victoria Crosses.
- In 1881 the two regiments amalgamated to form The Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders (Princess Louise's). After amalgamation battalions of the regiment served in:
- South Africa (Zululand)
- Boer War
- India and the Far East
- The Regiment had twenty six battalions in World War I and nine in World War II.
- Since the Indian Mutiny members of the regiment have earned a further nine Victoria Crosses.
- Since World War II the 1st Battalion has served in Palestine, Korea, British Guiana, Berlin, Suez, Cyprus, Malaya and Singapore, Borneo, Aden, Germany, Falkland Islands, England, Scotland and Northern Ireland.
THE REGULAR ARMY 1st BATTALION ARGYLL AND SUTHERLAND HIGHLANDERS
The 1st Battalion Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders are the West coast of Scotlands' Infantry Regiment of some 530 regular soldiers. They recruit from an area that stretches from Stirling, the regimental home and RHQ, in the east, north to Glencoe, westwards to Isles of Tiree, Mull and Islay, south throughout Argyll and Dunbartonshire and across the Clyde taking in Greenock and Paisley.
They are shortly to re-role into the British Army's newest, best equipped and most exciting Infantry Brigade - 16 Air Assault Brigade as an Air Assault Infantry battalion. They will be trained to deploy anywhere in the world when required to at short notice.
The Argyll and Sutherland Highlander soldiers are employed on humanitarian, peacekeeping and other operations (e.g. Afghanistan and Iraq ), as well as training.
From the:
THE ARGYLL AND SUTHERLAND HIGHLANDERS HOME PAGE
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posted on
05/16/2004 9:49:58 PM PDT
by
SandRat
(Duty, Honor, Country. What else needs to be said?)
To: I got the rope
Scotland is awesome,a very beautiful country and Edinburgh is a great place for nightlife.
I hope you go there,you won't regret it.
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posted on
05/16/2004 9:50:11 PM PDT
by
Mears
To: 1066AD
A little pic of what my lads from Glamorgan and Powys did at Rorke's Drift. My grandmother's maiden name was "Powers; i.e. Powys."
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posted on
05/16/2004 9:52:26 PM PDT
by
CholeraJoe
(Not Scottish. 3/4Welsh, 1/8Cherokee, 1/8Swiss. We're Archers and Infantry. Too short for the Cavalry)
To: Ragtime Cowgirl; Radix; HiJinx; Spiff; JackelopeBreeder; Da Jerdge; MJY1288; xzins; Calpernia; ...
William Wallace has returned with a vengeance in the very hearts of the Argyll & Sutherland Highlanders.
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posted on
05/16/2004 9:56:39 PM PDT
by
SandRat
(Duty, Honor, Country. What else needs to be said?)
To: BurbankKarl
Made in Britain, tested in Iraq.
To: SandRat
The spirit of the bayonet is TO KILL!!!
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posted on
05/16/2004 10:02:54 PM PDT
by
datura
(Let's drop the pretense. It's time to declare this a CRUSADE and finish it once and for all.)
To: CholeraJoe
This is awesome to read about. How many times have we seen this same spirit overcome the force of evil in history? Your reference is a good one.
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posted on
05/16/2004 10:03:17 PM PDT
by
snippy_about_it
(Fall in --> The FReeper Foxhole. America's History. America's Soul.)
To: datura
You got It! Unfortunately that little piece stopped being taught in the Clintoon PC salivation army but it's back now! Thanks to GW.
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posted on
05/16/2004 10:07:34 PM PDT
by
SandRat
(Duty, Honor, Country. What else needs to be said?)
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