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| Tango01 | 26 Dec 2018 9:44 p.m. PST |
….Vets Who Volunteered to Fight for the Egyptian Army "THE 1874 to 1876 Egyptian-Ethiopian War is one of the 19th century's more obscure conflicts. Among the most surprising aspects of the conflict is that it involved a group of ex-Confederate officers who had been hired by an Ottoman viceroy to conquer an empire in central Africa. These Confederate veterans had fought in the U.S. Civil War, in part to preserve a social system based on the enslavement of Africans and their descendants. However, along with some Union officers, less than 10 years after the fall of the Confederacy they found themselves posted more than 6,000 miles from home, in new uniforms and leading columns of African troops into the Ethiopian highlands…."
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| mwindsorfw | 27 Dec 2018 11:25 a.m. PST |
Wasn't there a bad movie about searching for a Confederate ship in a desert? |
| Tango01 | 27 Dec 2018 11:47 a.m. PST |
Yes… VERY bad!….
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| 15th Hussar | 27 Dec 2018 1:03 p.m. PST |
Sahara w/o Matthew McConahey (sic)? I don't think it's all that bad… |
| Lion in the Stars | 27 Dec 2018 2:21 p.m. PST |
The movie was terrible compared to the book. And the book is barely-tolerable pulp fiction. |
| Tango01 | 28 Dec 2018 12:39 p.m. PST |
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| Gerard Leman | 28 Dec 2018 2:54 p.m. PST |
The movie was terrible compared to the book. And the book is barely-tolerable pulp fiction. Don't sugar-coat it, Lion. Tell us what you really think about it. :-) |
| Lion in the Stars | 28 Dec 2018 11:37 p.m. PST |
The Dirk Pitt adventures were pretty fun until Clive Cussler started writing himself into the stories… |
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