"Famous Last Words – The Dying Utterances of Well-Known" Topic
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| Tango01 | 09 Oct 2019 9:07 p.m. PST |
…. Military Commanders ""Whether they're fact or fiction, last words such as these are the stuff of legend in the annals of military history."…."
See them here
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Amicalement
Armand
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| ninthdoc | 10 Oct 2019 11:58 a.m. PST |
This one's a stretch, Tango, but I can back it up with more silly justification, if need be. "Gazpacho soup!" Arnold J. Rimmer of the Red Dwarf |
| von Schwartz | 10 Oct 2019 6:08 p.m. PST |
I think the number one has gotta be Union General John Sedgwick, Sept 13, 1864. Trying to encourage his men who were taking shelter from Confederate sniper fire he is reputed to have stood up and shouted to his troops, "They couldn't hit an elephant at this dist…." |
| Tango01 | 11 Oct 2019 12:07 p.m. PST |
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| 95th Division | 12 Oct 2019 10:45 a.m. PST |
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| Bowman | 15 Oct 2019 6:29 a.m. PST |
Don't know how true this is, but here goes……. Oscar Wilde is impoverished and now dying in a cheap, decrepit room. He wakes up in a moment of lucidity, looks around at his squalid surroundings and claims, "Well, either this wallpaper goes or I do". But as wargaming goes, it's hard to beat Sedgwick's comment. |
| Old Wolfman | 07 Nov 2019 7:49 a.m. PST |
"Enemy on island;Issue in doubt" Wake Island defenders reputed last message. |
| Tango01 | 08 Nov 2019 1:02 p.m. PST |
Good ones!.
Ammicalement
Armand
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| von Schwartz | 17 Nov 2019 7:44 p.m. PST |
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| Robert le Diable | 01 Jan 2020 6:05 a.m. PST |
Like many Irish soldiers, Patrick Sarsfield was killed fighting for another country. He is said to have commented on the sight of his blood, "oh, that this were for Ireland." Further away still, Ned Kelly said to the Hangman just as the noose was settled, "Such is Life." Staying with executions, one of the best parting shots has to be Murat before a firing-squad; "Tirer au coeur; sauvez la tete." |
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