"Battle of the Biscuits" Topic

Interesting little article on the battle that began the Nine Year's War, the battle of the Ford of the Biscuits, 1594;

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Make mine a Rich Tea

Fascinating. Thanks for the link.

I also found the link interesting. But, sorry, couldn't resist the cheap gag…

Ah, the other Nine Years War.

Well the first one, so; dibs.

If you think that battle takes the biscuit for the name, I would like to point out that in 1420's an engagement known as The Battle of the Herrings took place in France. It was fought for the control of a baggage train loaded with barrels of herring.

Maybe we need a board for the discussion of disputed foodstuffs……

Would such a board allow discussion of Bourbons or Garibaldis?

Bastogne! biscuits are by far the best. Wrong board I know.

In 1784 there was the so called soepketeloorlog (or soupkettle war). This began as the Austrian Emperor demanded free traffic on the Scheld river which was closed for foreign ships after the 80 Years War.
Supposedly there was one shot fired which hit the soup kettle on a Dutch ship, the firing ship was forced to surrender. The war was ended after some time but no other shots were fired.

That's an excellent link Clib. I hope that Paul Logue and pals will be publishing their findings.

There is an opportunity to do what was done with the Little Bighorn site I hope someone does so.

I was intrigued by Logue's reference to armour piercing bullets what can he have meant?

I looked up the website and there is a nice educational resource there and some nice illustrations mostly Ian Heath.

Here's the link.

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