Belleau Wood WWI Battle

Interesting Marc. Thanks.

Right on CWO.  Way cool read. I read of this in Forsythe’s “The Afgan”. It didn’t have many details though.

That was one major explosion. In recent times their was a ammo dump that went up in iraq. It was claimed no foul play but I’ve always wondered.

Thank you Marc. Interesting indeed. No nothing of Harding, so nice to hear this story.

I didn’t know that Cromwell.
The South were his family’s lands, so I suppose he would have felt the urge to protect them and its people.
All we can say, is that he should not have rushed. But then we weren’t there.
He almost won the battle( on the 14th October).
Think I posted about Hastings last year, so will not repeat!

@rjpeters70:

Underrated by whom?  I think a lot of professional military historians (Tim Hoyt at Naval War College for one) see Caesar as one of the finest ever, far better than Alexander or Napolean. When you look at the number of people and provinces he defeated, it is staggering.  Then you compare that with the number of casualties his forces took (damn, damn few), and it is breathtaking.

He is on my short list of best.

@Gargantua:

Oakland Raiders for sure.

Vader: So, you have accepted the truth.

images.jpg

@Jermofoot:

I had a friend rave about this movie.  When I told him I’d probably never go to see it, he started to describe the movie to me.

If I hadn’t known him, I would have thought he was schizophrenic or something.

I know what you mean, I tried to explain it to my wife who will never watch a movie like that, and half way though, I realized how crazy I sounded , so I just gave up.

Yep it was pretty much like the movie, characters and all.