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THE SECRET WORLD - CHRISTOPHER ANDREW KARTONIER...

Throughout history the English have been a warlike lot. Often we fight among ourselves - there
have been a good few civil wares - and when we were not slaughtering each other  we practised
on our neighbours  the Scots  the Irish  the French . . . When that got too easy  we set off
around the world to find other people to fight. This was usually done with a hubris that
invited some ludicrous pratfall. · Do you know which crazy field marshal told the Duke of
Wellington that he had been made pregnant with an elephant by a French grenadier?· Or which
cowardly general hid behind a tree when his troops walked straight into a Spanish ambush?· Or
which regiment drank 7217 gallons of liquor between them? In The Beastly Battles of Old England
Nigel Cawthorne takes us on a darkly humorous journey through some of our ill-advised military
actions. From the war over a severed ear to a general seeking out his rival's mistresses to
even the score  it is a miscellany of insufferable arrogance  reckless gallantry  stunning
stupidity  massive misjudgements and general beastliness.

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