"How alcohol played a key role in warfare around the world" Topic
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Tango01 | 13 Oct 2017 12:27 p.m. PST |
"For centuries alcohol has always played an important, and sometimes decisive, role in warfare. As it brought the troups moral and courage in many armies the intake of booze was allowed or even stimulated. Other commanders believed it was best to keep their troops as sober as possible, so they wouldn't go out of control. But no matter if we're talking wine for the Roman legions, gin and rum for the British soldiers in the colonies, whisky during the American Civil War or vodka for the Red Army during World War II, alcohol has always been an important issue in combat…" Main page link Amicalement Armand
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PrivateSnafu | 13 Oct 2017 12:42 p.m. PST |
Tango, You may need a shot of courage around here each time you post lately. |
Tango01 | 14 Oct 2017 12:23 p.m. PST |
Probably… more than one!….(smile) Amicalement Armand
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ITALWARS | 16 Oct 2017 6:11 a.m. PST |
i read from WW1 Veterans of the Italian front…that they aknowledged that an ennemy attack vs their trench lines was imminent because the wind carried the smell of schnapps/grappa that had been distributed and drunk by K.U.K troops to encourage them to close the ennemy… on the same line i read accounts from Italian WW2 veterans of the Lybian Campaign that during the first attacks vs their positions at Bardia ecc.. they were confronted by totally drunk Australian infantry |
Tango01 | 16 Oct 2017 11:15 a.m. PST |
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War Artisan | 21 Oct 2017 2:58 p.m. PST |
And on a related note . . . Episode 2 of the current season of Civil War Talk Radio: an interview with Mark Will-Weber, the author of "Muskets and Applejack: Spirits, Soldiers, and the Civil War": link |
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