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To: bobo1
Your post # 28

The Brits actually have a pretty good heritage when it comes to some things.

I note your support for things Brit and thanks. I am used to the give and take on FR, would not have it any other way. Getting late and I thought I would fire off a salvo. It was at Omdurman in 1898, witnessed by a young Churchill, that the great charge of fanatical Islam took place. Thousands of horsemen wanting to die for Allah. Victory for Kitchener of Khartoum. Oh well, one parting statement.

We are on the same bloomin' side, are we not? God speed the Navy!

103 posted on 09/15/2012 10:26:27 PM PDT by Peter Libra
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To: Peter Libra

Re the Battle of Omdurman. The charge of the “Whirling Dervishes”. I’ve seen one account that said that the British killed 10,000 of them.

How? Gatling guns or their British equivalent.

Remind me to thank the Gatling Brothers for their contribution to keep the world safe from Islamic extremists.


105 posted on 09/15/2012 10:30:34 PM PDT by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
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