"Guards to Poltava." Topic
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Tango01 | 15 Feb 2015 10:40 p.m. PST |
""The artillery opened the attack and the colours were unfurled. The men were drawn up in battle array to the sound of music; bugles rang out, and standards floated on the breeze. Swords flashed and a cheer went up, and the men moved forward in a cloud of dust. War before the advent of the aeroplane, the motor car, the tank, and barbed wire, must have been like this, I thought as I watched the. This waswhat it must have been like even as far back as Napoleon when men in gorgeous uniforms charged with snapping banners over greenmeadows against enemy batteries." Researching the Russian Civil War can often be a dark and bleak activity, where accounts, be they first hand or post event works of academe, so often focus on the horrors of this peculiarly grim conflict. There are, however, exceptions. "Farewell to the Don" by Brigadier H.N.H.Williamson is the perfect antidote to dry history, as hopefully the excerpt above shows. Williamson had been born in 1886 and after education at Eton and Woolwich took up a commission with the Royal Artillery in 1907. He served in India and then in France throughout the entire four years of the Great War. He was awarded the M.C., the Belgian Croix de Guerre and was three times mentioned in despatches…" Full text here PDF link Amicalement Armand |
Bobgnar | 16 Feb 2015 11:49 a.m. PST |
Sounds very interesting however, Forbidden Remote Host: [50.36.102.77] You do not have permission to access this page or file Data files must be stored on the same site they are linked from. Thank you for using 50megs |
GrumpyOldMan | 16 Feb 2015 3:47 p.m. PST |
Hello Bobgnar Just go to the original page link which has a wealth of scenarios. Lots of great stuff on Pygmy Wars site. Cheers GrumpyOldMan |
Bobgnar | 26 Feb 2015 10:14 a.m. PST |
Thanks Grumpy, that worked, good stuff |
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