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| Tango01 | 14 Aug 2014 11:40 a.m. PST |
"It was the best part of a Mess Dinner. The toasts were drunk, I had been asked to drone on about glory, the Empire and "What ho, Blandingshires!", then we senior officers had retired to the lounge for cigars and brandy, leaving the subalterns to throw bread rolls at each other while getting beastly drunk finishing the port. My old regiment, the Blandingshire Fusiliers were on station and were celebrating their Regimental Day, or Groose Trinken Day. As the pater and various Majors had hammered into my thick noggin when I was a young subaltern, Groose Trinken was the day when the newly raised Col. Wooster's Regiment of Foote was part of the old Duke of Marlborough's rear guard in Flanders or Saxony, or Switzerland maybe, and like a red brick fort they held all day as the French cavalry, or maybe they were Russians?… some Foreign Johnnies anyway, swarmed about them Formed square around the Duke's wagon of wine, mouths parched with powder smoke and no water, well it's understandable what happened…"
Full battle here
link Hope you enjoy!. Amicalement
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wants to know if you can tell the difference between weaker and stronger magnets with 3mm aircraft.
