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| Author: | Navarone [ Fri Feb 25, 2005 9:33 am ] |
| Post subject: | British Tactics defeating everyone, a sure thing |
<font color="red"><i>The officers will take all proper opportunities to inculcate in the mens' minds a reliance on the bayonet; men of their bodily strength and even a coward may be their match in firing. But the bayonet in the hands of the valiant is irresistible.</i></font id="red"> Lieutenant-General Burgoyne, General Orders, 20, June 1777 and <font color="red"><i>Rangers of Connaught! It is not my intention to expend any powder this evening. We'll do this business with Cold Steel.</i></font id="red"> General Sir Thomas Picton, 6 April 1812 to the 88th Foot before the assault on Badajoz. I Irresistably Remain, |
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