Man in a Shed: Lesson from History

Tuesday, November 04, 2008

Lesson from History - for the French

I was a bit concerned on my way to Euro Disney with some frog historians trying to rewrite the history on Agincourt ( with a suitably pro-French explanation for why they got hammered. Leave it alone froggies - the history's fine the way we (the winners) wrote it ;-) ).

But the following link from the Anglo Saxon Chronicle on French military history has restored my sense of balance ....

PS Needless to say there is absolutely no way the UK should have anything to do with an EU Army.

For the correct English operating procedure for defeat of the French see below:

When you've got Brian Blessed on your side what could go wrong ?

2 comments:

Anonymous said...: Trouble is... every time he shouts "Gordon's Alive"... Brown makes a comeback in the polls.; 3:54 pm
Man in a Shed said...: Good point.; 4:39 pm

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