I too was struck by that seeming contradiction. I guess when you are throwing up a hasty fortification you can't spend too much time thinking about such things as drainage.
86 posted on 08/23/2006 5:03:41 AM PDT by Tallguy
(The problem with this war is the name... You don't wage war against a tactic.)
Yeah, I guess we'll never know the reasoning. I assumed that the Royal Engineers would take the lay of the land into account when building the fortification, but hind sight is 20/20 lol... Thanks for the reply.