"SYW friendly fire?" Topic
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 raducci  | 01 Nov 2009 2:24 a.m. PST |
I am reading Old Fritz's musings on war.
I've come to the section where he recommends firing on your own dragoons if they wouldn't charge home.
He certainly wasn't playing for fun. |
 timurilank | 01 Nov 2009 2:32 a.m. PST |
Raducci … was this during the First Silesian War? |
| bavoisSYW | 01 Nov 2009 3:49 a.m. PST |
Nothing like a bit of motivation to get the boys rolling! |
| Frederick | 01 Nov 2009 5:27 a.m. PST |
Well – he didn't want them to live forever! |
 John the OFM | 01 Nov 2009 5:06 p.m. PST |
I wouldn't exactly call it friendly fire. |
| DJCoaltrain | 01 Nov 2009 5:23 p.m. PST |
They were Cav, it's not as if they were real people! |
| raducci | 01 Nov 2009 10:29 p.m. PST |
@ timurilank
Its from art of war book. |
| abdul666lw | 02 Nov 2009 5:02 a.m. PST |
"They were Cav, it's not as if they were real people!":
Actually the matter is more complex: for 'true' cavalrymen it would be the opposite, infantrymen not being 'real people' -according to the saying 'Below the cavalryman is his horse and far, far further below the remainder of humankind' (don't know were their wives fit "To our women to our horses and to those mounting them!").
But Dragoons were NOT cavalrymen yet (see their definition in Ambrose Bierce's 'Devil's Dictionary'), they still had drums and guidons rather than trumpets and standards, so the issue is debatable… |
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