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Al Nofi's CIC
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Issue #336, March 7th, 2011 |
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This Issue...
- Infinite Wisdom
- la Triviata
- Short Rounds
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Infinite Wisdom
"Gentlemen, don't fight the problem. Solve it."
La Triviata
- The Battle of Dettingen (June 27, 1743), was
characterized by an almost unique tactical development, when, led by the 21st
Regiment of Foot (later the Royal Scots Fusiliers), British infantry attacked
and routed a considerable force of French cavalry, a feat personally witnessed
by King George II, as this was the last occasion on which a British sovereign
actually commanded in the field.
- Although at the time considered an atrocity of the
worst sort, during their month-long bombardment of Paris in December
1870-Janaury 1871, the Prussian-German forces fired 12,000 rounds into the
city, damaging about 1,400 structures, but killing only 97 people.
- During the late eighteenth century, perquisites and
opportunities for feathering one's nest in the Royal East India Company forces
in India were such that a colonel could easily come away with £8,000 in a year above his official pay and emoluments,
which only amounted to a few hundred pounds.
- By 1918, an average of 20,000 British troops were on
leave in London
every day.
- The backbone of the Maginot Line, in Alsace-Lorraine,
took nine years to build from 1930 to 1939, at a cost of about fr 9 billion, then some $323 million,
today about $5 billion based on the CPI,
but probably more than twice that based on the prevailing minimum wage.
- During the Second World War, tiny Tristan da Cunha in
the far South Atlantic, was officially a commissioned warship in the Royal
Navy, designated HMS Atlantic Isle.
- The tallest classes of conscripts for the French Army
during the nineteenth century were those of 1835-1839, many of whom had been
born as a consequence of the occupation of France by Prussian, Russian,
English, and other foreign troops from 1814 through 1818.
- During World War I Austro-Hungarian troops dubbed the
wooden frames used to hold barbed wire in place “Spanishe Reiter – Spanish Riders”, after the famed Lipizzaner
horses of the Spanish
Riding School.
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of "Al Nofi's CIC" have appeared previously in Military Chronicles,
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