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King Brown, the British army were always a professional army until the First World War when conscription became a requirement due to losses. My Great Uncle was also killed at Ypres in 1915. It was a tough war but the 1914 British professional lot were the best trained, equipped and experienced in the world at that time. Although greatly outnumbered they stopped the Germans in their tracks with the Germans believing that we were all armed with machine guns because of the speed and accuracy of fire. We then had to retreat to close the gap between us in Belgium and the French army and then it was a case of just dig in and hold. Lagopous..... Like I said before about the Brexit vote, we've kicked your ass and saved it for centuries and now you're telling us what to do, I don't think so.  Your revolution succeeded mostly because the British had bigger fish to fry. We burned your White House down last time we had a violent disagreement. During WWI, you did your very best to stay out of it until the last year, and in WWII you again tried hard to stay out of it. When you did enter the fray, it was after 3 years of hard fighting already and only because you were attacked. No wonder you seemed fresh by comparison. You were. As per my earlier post, please refrain from repeating myths or excessive jingoism. Instead, learn history and then comment on it. Hardly a case of "we've kicked your ass and saved it for centuries" NOooooo. I was referring to the English people, who have saved Europe for centuries, that decided to leave the EU by the Brexit vote on my post. I was NOT in any way referring to the American people. Ahh, two people separated by a common language.
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Sorry Treblig, misunderstood your comment. I get it now. Cheers!
James
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Thanks James!!! But I agree with you as people do get carried away with their juvenile oversimplification, "We kicked your ass" assessment of the American Revolution. It does get annoying.
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Ignorance, the way the ubiquitous "we" gets used for outcomes not only of the Revolution, Civil War and, collectively from the West, the Second World War.
(At least I had a big smile on my face, and listeners knew what I meant, when I said "we" cut and split six cords of dry hardwood on the weekend!)
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Ignorance, the way the ubiquitous "we" gets used for outcomes not only of the Revolution, Civil War and, collectively from the West, the Second World War.
(At least I had a big smile on my face, and listeners knew what I meant, when I said "we" cut and split six cords of dry hardwood on the weekend!) That's a pretty good pile King. Did three (bush) cords last winter and that was enough for a while! 
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Cornish Pasties are the answer in Cold weather...
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Cornish Pasties are the answer in Cold weather... Just getting ready to make some tourtierres using duck, sharptail and pork! Just the thing for a cold winter evening!
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'The right of ordinary citizens to possess weapons is the most extraordinary, most controversial and least understood of those liberties secured by Englishmen and bequeathed to their American colonists. It lies at the very heart of the relationship between the individual and his fellows, and between the individual and his Government.' Joyce Lee Malcolm. https://www.amazon.co.uk/Guns-Violence-Joyce-Lee-Malcolm/dp/0674016084 Lagopus..... Thanks Lagopus for posting the link to that book. There are a couple books noted there that examine the British experience with gun control that seem worth reading. I will have to order them.
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