To: neverdem
As a French general who witnessed the spectacle said, “C’est magnifique, mais ce n’est pas la guerre.”
That was the Charge of the Light Brigade, Dick. During the Crimean War. I'm pretty sure that there were no French generals present at Gettyburg.
4 posted on
03/10/2010 5:37:23 PM PST by
Cheburashka
(Stephen Decatur: you want barrels of gunpowder as tribute, you must expect cannonballs with it.)
To: Cheburashka
I do believe there was a British liason observer who saw the fateful charge.
“Such fateful folly I saw”
7 posted on
03/10/2010 5:39:11 PM PST by
ak267
To: Cheburashka
Oh! Cat Poop! The Civil War or the Crimean?? Whats the difference. The difference is an L.S.D! The point is clear!/s/
* Note: L.S.D.= Little Shi**y Detail
9 posted on
03/10/2010 5:45:29 PM PST by
True Republican Patriot
(May GOD Continue to BLESS Our Great President George W. Bush!!)
To: Cheburashka
There was an English Grenadier Guards colonel observing on the Confederate side, one Colonel Fremantle. He describes in his memoirs the extreme reluctance of General Longstreet to verbally order Pickett to proceed with the charge- he apparently only nodded his head, yes- go.
11 posted on
03/10/2010 5:59:41 PM PST by
John S Mosby
(Sic Semper Tyrannis)
To: Cheburashka
That was the Charge of the Light Brigade, Dick. During the Crimean War. Good catch.
19 posted on
03/10/2010 8:18:02 PM PST by
TexasNative2000
(This seems like fairly decisive evidence that the dream can, in fact, die.)
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