[My Favorite Headache]

DAAAAAAAAAAAMN!

[areafiftyone]

I was just checking and not one freakin mention on the BBC Newssite. How pathetic is that?

[Nick Danger]

There we were.
Surrounded on all sides.
Outnumbered 5 to 1...

[areafiftyone]

(((((((PING))))))

[Joee]

Bayonets? It's been a long time since I've heard of them being thus employed. I would venture a guess that the Arabs had only guns w/o bayonets. Further, I do not note any mention of "prisoners" taken. Cold steel has a way of inducing panic in the enemy, which I think could easily be the case here.

[opbuzz]

A big Semper Fi to the Brits!

[Leisler]

I'm wondering if maybe that Scottish skirt thing, sans the undies, with nice, tanned, hairy calfs and socks with a little balls on them didn't, for a moment, stun the enemy with sexual longings, until it was too late and the Scottie's were upon them.

[germanicus]

I'd pay a hundred bucks to see a video of that engagement.

[Tennessean4Bush]

Wow!

[RoseofTexas]

DOUBLE DAMNNNNNNNNNNN!!! I hope it was captured on film....DANG!! That's what you call men with real, ah, uh... you know! :)

[BlessedBeGod]

Already posted on the 16th:

Bayonet Brits kill 35 rebels

[lonevoice]

Ping for British coalition heroes' Another story you'll never hear on the news.

[InterceptPoint]

This is a great story but would someone please explain how bayonets could ever be more effective than bullets. And also, how effective would they be if your enemy was using bullets.

[Amerigomag]

To me the surprise isn't the outcome of the battle but the patriotic nature of the report published in the Sun..

If this same event had been reported by Jennings or Rather can you imagine how different the report would have been?

[ThePythonicCow]

Sergeant Andrew Rennie in Walking Out Dress 93rd Sutherland Highlanders circa. 1850-1852 From a contemporary painting. Artist unknown.

[MindBender26]

During DS, a group of 6 SF amd 6 Blue Suit FACs and "Air Commandos" was "advising" two Kuwati armor companies. Our friendly Kuwaiti woggies came across a company of Iraqi mech infantry. A few shots from the Iraqis (all missed) and the Kuwatis turned tail and unassed the area.

US troops were so P.O.ed, they dismounted the Kuwati tanks, attacked the Iraqis on foot and killed or captured all of them, so the Kuwatis returned and claimed a "glorious victory for the Coalition forces"

Isn't Allah great!

[ThePythonicCow]

93rd (Highland) Regiment of Foot, The Thin Red Line at Balaclava

The Thin Red Line at Balaclava, painted by Victorian artist Robert Gibb in 1856.

Recreated by Frontline Figures in 1996.

The Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders are perhaps one of the best known Highland regiments and the one with the most romantic associations. The regiments history dates back to 1794 but it assumed its present form in 1881 following the amalgamation of the 91st Argyllshire Highlanders and the 93rd Sutherland Highlanders. Better known in Scotland simply as the Argylls the regiment recruited in central Scotland (in the old counties of Stirlingshire and Clackmannanshire) and in the West of Scotland in Argyll.

The Sutherland Branch of the reqiment is particularly famed for its part in the Battle of Balaclava (1854) during the Crimean War.

The regimental badge is a circle inscribed Argyll and Sutherland surrounded by a wreath of thistles. In the centre the cypher of Princess Louise is reversed and interlaced with the princess's coronet mounted above The boar's head of the Duke of Argyll and the cat of the Duke of Sutherland lie within the circle.

The Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders have two mottos. The first is 'Ne Obliviscaris' (do not forget) the motto of the Duke of Argyll, and the second is 'Sans Peur' (Fearless) the motto of the Duke of Sutherland.

[Cheeeeze]

EXCELLENT!

[Pharmboy]

Some things never change. During the 18th Century, there was nothing more feared than the bayonet charge of the British infantry. During the RevWar, we could not best them at this (and one of the reasons was that we had fewer bayonets).

[sheik yerbouty]

Who dares, wins!

[maestro]

?.....Absolutely,.....NO Automatic Weapons were used by either side?

/sarcasm