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#21

Ahem. Proven fact, as demonstrated in practical terms in Custer-V-United First Nations in 1876 -

a. Widely spread-out deployed troops = massacre of the defenders.

b. Closely packed troops = massacre of the attackers.

Also, AFA Custer was concerned - never take a single-shot rifle to a shooting match where the opposition have repeaters.

tac

#22

The only REAL omission from the film ‘Zulu’ was Tom Cruise as the Zulu king Ketshwayo.

Oddly enough, the part was played by Ketshwayo’s grandson. It must have given him a bit ofa shiver to lose out for the second time to a bunch of Rooineks.

See - Inkosi Mangosuthu Buthelezi (born 27 August 1928) is the former prime minister of Zululand and South African Zulu politician who founded the Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP) in 1975. His praise name is Shenge.

In 1964 he played King Cetshwayo kaMpande (his own maternal great-grandfather) in the film Zulu.

tac

#23
tac said:
Ahem. Proven fact, as demonstrated in practical terms in Custer-V-United First Nations in 1876 -

a. Widely spread-out deployed troops = massacre of the defenders.

b. Closely packed troops = massacre of the attackers.

Also, AFA Custer was concerned - never take a single-shot rifle to a shooting match where the opposition have repeaters.

tac


Being cavalry, Yellow Hair forgot to deploy his dismounted Troopers as Infantry, in a square, as was required when fighting dismounted troops against cavalry. That was one of his minor mistakes, the biggest being to divide his force.

Now that I think of it, arrogance was probably his biggest mistake.

#24
Steve Featherkile said:
... Now that I think of it, arrogance was probably his biggest mistake.
His joining the Army in the first place wasn't such a smooth move either... :rolleyes:
#25
John Le Forestier said:
Odd people, the Welsh.... to take a perfectly adequate alphabet and turn it into scrambled eggs like that. 'Course, then there's Polish... :lol:
Truth is, every language in modern Europe makes the Roman alphabet do things that would confuse the hell out of Iulius Caesar. Damn barbarians ...
#26

Let’s not be TOO scathing about the Welsh, please.

Remember that -

  1. Wales has no less than TWELVE active and ever-improving narrow-gauge rail lines in operation, including one with more operational Beyer-Garratt locos than anywhere else on earth, and

  2. FAR more important, Mrs tac is Welsh, and I have to live with her under the terms of the contract we drew up together in September of 1971.

tax

#27

You must spend a lot of time laughing… :P;)

#28

Sure do, Sir, ask anyone who’s met me. :slight_smile:

tac

#29

That’s cause he’s ticklish and Ig knows the right spots…:wink:

#30

Mrs TAC Welsh…News to me.

#31

Well, HALF-Welsh.

tac

#32

Terry, Ig, and Gaylor, may be at the American Invasion of Friends, in 2013…John, you can meet them here, along with Ken, and bunch of other operational fanatics…!!

#33

I have to point out at this juncture that any reference to ‘ken, the GFT’ that might have appeared from time to time in MY correspondence here has absolutely NO connection, implied or actual, with our own Ken with a capital K.

Thank you.

tac