Hartford World: Changing Tides, Part XXXVII
March 20, 1942 Ambassador Ridlon stepped out of Number 10 Downing Street. He checked his pocket watch. It was not yet 11:00. For a celebratory dinner at Prime Minister Churchill’s table, it had...
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Brilliantly done-please keep up the good work.
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Wow, wonder if the Confederate naval officers know they just helped the Negro Battalion win a great battle.
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This is superb, all of it. Allowing Japan to retain (much of) its empire will have long-term ramifications for HW and New England. Question: Mention has been made here of the impact on the USA that...
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I don't think Major Little has any real choice, but close assault against a more numerous foe is a great way the quickly attrite your own force.Thanks to surprise, the phosphorous, light artillery...
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coast watcher wrote:This is superb, all of it. Allowing Japan to retain (much of) its empire will have long-term ramifications for HW and New England. Question: Mention has been made here of the...
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Big Dave wrote:I don't think Major Little has any real choice, but close assault against a more numerous foe is a great way the quickly attrite your own force.Thanks to surprise, the phosphorous,...
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Wolfman21 wrote:Brilliantly done-please keep up the good work.Thank you!
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Fred the Great wrote:Wow, wonder if the Confederate naval officers know they just helped the Negro Battalion win a great battle. No. They couldn't--there was no direct communication. They were...
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Château Mouton Rothschild...that's good stuff.
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wb wrote: But the rear areas, filled with newly-arrived infantry and all of the available artillery, were pummeled by all of the HE ammunition available to the two cruisers (probably 20-30 rounds per...
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coast watcher wrote:wb wrote: But the rear areas, filled with newly-arrived infantry and all of the available artillery, were pummeled by all of the HE ammunition available to the two cruisers...
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Theodore wrote:Château Mouton Rothschild...that's good stuff.The joke, of course, being that they wouldn't touch the champagne because it was too expensive...you can buy about ten bottles of Moet...
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A fine chapter. Do always enjoy the humor about wine and grand houses. I also misunderstood, reading "six-gun half salvoes of two departed Confederate heavy cruisers" to mean that the cruisers fired a...
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A joke, in Hartford World? That's not something you see every day. Makes you wonder if Captain O'Brien had a word with the sergeants about how to select their headquarters. Effective scenes in both...
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The better comparison, at least to Texas minds, will be a modern-day Battle of San Jacinto. Heavily outnumbered defenders - check. Charging into prepared defenses - check. Mexicans - check. An...
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chelt2 wrote:A fine chapter. Do always enjoy the humor about wine and grand houses. I also misunderstood, reading "six-gun half salvoes of two departed Confederate heavy cruisers" to mean that the...
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Siegmund aus dem Engelnwald wrote:A joke, in Hartford World? That's not something you see every day. Makes you wonder if Captain O'Brien had a word with the sergeants about how to select their...
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kdahm wrote:The better comparison, at least to Texas minds, will be a modern-day Battle of San Jacinto. Heavily outnumbered defenders - check. Charging into prepared defenses - check. Mexicans -...
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WB,Again, apologies for late posting.Siegmund was saying that HW is light on jokes, which I'll second. So why did the whole scene remind me of the "unblessed communion wine binge" in Spike Milligan's...
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