This Day in History

[Leman (Andy)]

Serves me right for getting ahead of myself.

[Radar]

On this day 23rd October 1643 the battle of Edgehill.

Edgehill gives us the only officially recognised ghosts in this country due to a Royal Commission being sent to investigate the phenomenon by Charles I. Their report is apparently 'lost' so we have to rely upon newssheets paraphrasing, and no doubt embellishing the story.

[Colonel Kilgore]

A ghost reports on ghosts?

Surely 8 days too early...

[John Watson]

Sorry to be pedantic but Edghill or Edgehill was 1642.

John

[martin goddard]

Fuss fuss fuss John

martin

[John Watson]

I believe it is also the anniversary of the 3rd battle of El Alamein in 1942. Gen Claude Aukinleck (not sure of the spellijng) stopped the DAK in the first battle, then repulsed their thrust towards the Suez in the second battle before Monty completed the job. Churchill, always one to bend the truth to fit a famous quote said that we never won a battle before Alamein and never lost one after. How quickly he forgot the Battle of Britain, the Battle of the River Plate and the sinking of the Bismarck.
John

[Radar]

Sorry to be pedantic but Edghill or Edgehill was 1642.

John

D'oh! School boy error, lack of sleep. Probably both.

[pbeccas (Paul)]

Churchill, always one to bend the truth to fit a famous quote said that we never won a battle before Alamein and never lost one after. How quickly he forgot the Battle of Britain, the Battle of the River Plate and the sinking of the Bismarck.
John

Tobruk?

[Smiley Miley 66]

I think he was referring to a "Land Battle" to which an average person on the street relates to, even though all the fore mentioned battles had cost many thousands of lives collectively already.
But I am afraid to say that is a sad fact of life !
The effort,gains and sacrifices made up that point had been quite high, but the average person on the street and in Parliament never look at the other things that went on, as they were not "Headline" grabbing enough !!!
Miles

[Leman (Andy)]

October 25th 1854 - Battle of Balaclava. Successful charge of the Heavy Brigade, defence of Kadikoi by the thin red line of Highlanders, Turks and invalids, and the one and a half hours resistance by the hugely outnumbered Turks in Redoubt No.1 all overshadowed by the unclear orders and miscommunication of the Light Brigade charge, which nevertheless shook the Russians up a bit. And also to be remembered the Charge of the Chasseurs d'Afrique on the left flank Russian guns and infantry which helped the Light brigade survivors to get back down the valley less molested than they might have been.

[Colonel Kilgore]

Nice summary, Andy. Did I read somewhere that you game the Crimean War?

Simon

[Leman (Andy)]

Gamed it back in my teenage years with 25mm Minifigs. Not gamed it since then, although did dabble with some 6mm stuff but but did not make much progress. Currently considering 10mm with Magister Militum as they have the most complete range in that scale. Nothing yet though as the Netherlands and Belgium bank differently from the rest of, well, the world it would appear. A good example of how to take back control without leaving the EU.........oh silly me, no country in the EU ever lost its national sovreignty. Anyway I now find I am having to go through the hoohaa of cancelling my PayPal account and then open a new PayPal account in the Netherlands.

[Leslie BT]

I think Andy that will be the case for a lot of internet sites. Ebay is going to be the same. And a number of trade sites will also need new accounts creating in Europe and cancelling in the UK.

[Nick]

I put together a couple of big Crimean war forces years ago using Minifigs 15mm figures. Still use them occasionally with Black Powder ruleset.

Nick

[pbeccas (Paul)]

26 October 1881.  Tombstone Arizona.  The shootout at the O.K. Coral.