[BartSimpson]

Batsy2 Batsy2:

Our men were out there fighting, up to their necks in muck and bullets, whilst yours were shagging.

Who says the Brits weren't shagging, too?

[Regina]

Batsy2 Batsy2:

Unsound Unsound:

I suspect it was the women of England who arranged things that way. After the first kiss from a man with good teeth, there was no going back for them

It's nothing to be proud of. There was a war on.

Knowing your vast knowledge of history it appears you need reminding that we were also there to fight the Germans.......both times. In other words if you were fighting so were we. Shagging the locals was a given. Taking home the good ones was a bonus.

[BartSimpson]

Regina Regina:

Knowing your vast knowledge of history it appears you need reminding that we were also there to fight the Germans.......both times. In other words if you were fighting so were we. Shagging the locals was a given. Taking home the good ones was a bonus.

Brits often have selective memories of WW1 and WW2. They frequently believe that they won those wars despite the assistance of their allies. See, if it weren't for their needing to tell us all how to do things then they could have won the war even sooner.

[ShepherdsDog]

hmmmmm.....I guess the Americans and British do have more in common

[Thanos]

I'd put "being an anti-Canadian jackass trolling a Canadian forum and doing nothing but insulting Canadians at every turn" as being grounds for a perma-ban.

Hey, jackass, we're sorry our guys spent a few months on Salisbury Plain getting some training in before they got assigned to the meat grinder. It's unforgivable that they didn't run straight to the front so stalwart British leaders like French and Haig could march them straight into some massed machine-gun and artillery fire sooner rather than later.

[BartSimpson]

ShepherdsDog ShepherdsDog:

hmmmmm.....I guess the Americans and British do have more in common

Anymore I find that the current academic philosophy in US history places far too much emphasis on Soviet participation. These days it's hard to find a young person who thinks the US did anything good in either of those wars. Meanwhile the kids will happily inform me of the noble contributions of the USSR to both wars.

[BartSimpson]

Thanos Thanos:

I'd put "being an anti-Canadian jackass trolling a Canadian forum and doing nothing but insulting Canadians at every turn" as being grounds for a perma-ban.

Hey, jackass, we're sorry our guys spent a few months on Salisbury Plain getting some training in before they got assigned to the meat grinder. It's unforgivable that they didn't run straight to the front so stalwart British leaders like French and Haig could march them straight into some massed machine-gun and artillery fire sooner rather than later.

+5 if you had your rep on.

[Thanos]

I wonder if World War One could actually have resulted in some kind of genuine Allied victory if they'd shot 9 out of 10 British and French generals and gave the jobs to those who actually knew what the fuck they were doing. With "know what the fuck you're doing" specifically meaning not try to kill more of your own men than the Germans were trying to do.

[Regina]

Perfect example of the privlilaged nearly eliminating an entire generation from a number of countries. Was also the main factor in Canada officially not declaring war on Germany for a week after the British. We were never going to be led again by the likes of Haig.

[Jabberwalker]

What that cold, miserable winter in Salisbury did for the 1st Canadian Division is got them accustomed to being cold, wet and sick so that when they finally deployed into Flanders in the early spring of 1915, they were fairly trained, much better equipped(than when they left Canada) toughened up and ready enough to stand their ground in the face of the first WMD attack in history when it occurred against them.

[martin14]

Jabberwalker Jabberwalker:

toughened up and ready enough to stand their ground in the face of the first WMD attack in history when it occurred against them.

Umm, not exactly.

$1:

1915: Large-scale use and lethal gases

The first instance of large-scale use of gas as a weapon was on 31 January 1915, when Germany fired 18,000 artillery shells containing liquid xylyl bromide tear gas on Russian positions on the Rawka River, west of Warsaw during the Battle of Bolimov. However, instead of vaporizing, the chemical froze and failed to have the desired effect.

Let's call it the first gas attack that worked.

[Jabberwalker]

Funny, we never hear about that one.

Bromine, then Chlorine ... did anybody make a Fluorine bomb? ... drop it on the Thames estuary and fix all of their teeth?

[Regina]

Jabberwalker Jabberwalker:

Funny, we never hear about that one.

Bromine, then Chlorine ... did anybody make a Fluorine bomb? ... drop it on the Thames estuary and fix all of their teeth?

Okay.......that was funny.
+5

[bootlegga]

Unsound Unsound:

I suspect it was the women of England who arranged things that way. After the first kiss from a man with good teeth, there was no going back for them

[martin14]

First bombardment of Ostend by British warships.

Grand Fleet withdraws from Scapa Flow to West of Scotland, after Uboat raid.

Japanese light cruiser "Takachiho" sunk by German destroyer off Tsingtao.

First Indian units reach the Flanders front.



Transfer of British army from the Aisne to Flanders completed.

1st battle of Ypres begins.