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Willz the Wargamer wrote: ↑Fri Apr 19, 2024 3:24 pm Winner winner chicken dinner as they say.

Splice the mainbrace, surely? (Much more classy.)

All I know is that Errol Flynn was involved, somehow. But they are lovely figures that Penda's churning out.. I vaguely recall seeing that film as a boy - my recollection is that Flynn led his regiment on a charge against Pathans on the N W Frontier and suddenly found himself assaulting Russian gun...

Loch Dubh - Black Lake. On a similar theme, the last Hiberno-Norse invasion of England left Dublin (originally Dubh Lin - Black Pond or Pool) and landed on the coast of Lancashire. Would anyone like to guess where? They did very well right up to the point that their leader had the brilliant idea of...

Willz the Wargamer wrote: ↑Fri Apr 19, 2024 11:15 am Ah was not sure if I spelled it correctly, should have looked on one of the recordings and got the spoiling correct.

So another BBC comedy with an implanted copper mangling the local dialect.....

Ah, Zaphir and Abbas - a fine pair of opening batsmen.....

Interesting fact: until the British captured New France and its lucrative fur trade, the grenadiers in Protestant countries all wore cloth mitre caps, with or without metal front plates, whilst those of Catholic countries (possibly because they were further south and/or contained forested mountain r...

They were originally a Government regiment but the first colonel insulted the troops by not allowing them to drink whiskey. So the regiment mutinied to a man and went over to Bonnie Prince Charlie. Denying Scotsmen whisky*? Well, that's just asking for trouble, isn't it. (I was always taught no &qu...

Yes, more excellent work, Mr P.

Another respectable unit. (Were black bears out of season when their hats were "sourced"?)

Nicely done, sir!