Entries tagged with military history

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Roman battlefield unearthed in Germany

But the real question,

gr_c17 is, did they find any Zulu assegais?

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What I spent my afternoon doing

Still needs a lot of work linking to other articles, but at least the utter tripe that was there before is improved 100%+.

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more info on great-uncle Bob P.

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very interesting

( cool WWI stuff about my family )

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A great story about US-Canadian history (or perhaps historiography) passed along by

vikingcat.

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a toast to those strange people from Down Under

Here's to the men (and now women) from Australia and New Zealand who have fought and far too often died for King, Country, and for those who live far from their Antipodean homes.

If you're not familiar with ANZAC Day, there are a good many references, starting with this Wikipedia article.

Someone from Australia commented on one list I read: ( Read more... )

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too funny

There's a pretty regular mistake that people who don't speak German make when writing about historical German military units. For whatever reason, they refer to sovereigns' bodyguards as "lieb guard" units.

"Lieb" of course means "love"; what they really mean are "leib guard" (bodyguard) units. But it happens all the time, along with people who think "Peninsular" is a noun and have trouble with French words like "chausseur" and "voltigeur".

But what I saw just now was priceless. One person in a thread referred to the "Lieb Guard" and I thought, "Oh, here we go..." And then someone replied, correctly referring to the "Leib...

....Gaurd". Aiiiieeeee!

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(Of course, almost no one goes so far as to correctly refer to such units as "Leib Garde". Now that would just be crazy...