<< Sorry, to us anyone from the States is a Yank. Just like you call us Brits and Limeys. >> But that's only to your face........ behind your back, we're not as charitable. Remember Gallipoli !!!!!!!
Bloody colonists ;-) Nope, my history's not good. Enlighten me. Philip Raby Editor, MG World PO Box 163, Bicester OX6 3YS, UK Tel: 01869 340061 Fax: 01869 340063 Mobile 0467 767361 www.chp.ltd.uk
'Gallipoli'. . . Not sure about this one either - is it something that happens to you after you've had some stale shellfish! ;-) == Chris Nevard "If all your cattle have been rustled by brigands, all
No, unfortunately. Gallipoli in this reference is something far worse, one of the incomprehensible human events that call into question the idea that mankind is on the top of the evolutionary pyramid
Sounds terrible. However, correct me if I'm wrong, but I thought the US wasn't involved in WW1? Philip Raby Editor, MG World PO Box 163, Bicester OX6 3YS, UK Tel: 01869 340061 Fax: 01869 340063 Mobil
Author: Larry Macy <macy@bblmail.psycha.upenn.edu>
Date: Thu, 11 Dec 97 16:39:51 -0500
On 12/11/97 4:25 PM so and so Phil said. (And I quote) Philip We arrived in 1917 after the Huns (to use the English term) sunk the Lusiatania. We pulled your butts out of the fire. ;-) Most of the Am
Thanks for this info. My apologises for my ignorance about WW1. I promise to do some serious reading over the Christmas hols (and I mean that!). Philip Raby Editor, MG World PO Box 163, Bicester OX6
Author: "John J. Peloquin" <peloquin@mamba.bio.uci.edu>
Date: Thu, 11 Dec 1997 15:20:24 -0800 (PST)
Lots of Gallipoli discussion removed: =%O =%OSounds terrible. However, correct me if I'm wrong, but I thought the US =%Owasn't involved in WW1? Well, if we weren't someone besides the Germans shot an
The US was involved in WWI, though not to the extent of the UK, certainly. The involvement of two of my uncles was sufficient to get one buried in France and the other gassed so that his lungs were
Yep as usual Canada gets forgotten. The Canadian Expeditionary Force fielded a full corps in France for most of the duration of the war, in fact The Canadian Corps successfully took Vimy Ridge after
On Thu, 11 Dec 97 21:25:22 -0000 Phil <mgworld@chp.ltd.uk> writes: Yeah Phil, we were for a year or so. Just long enough for the "historians" over here to determine that we won the war single-handed.
If you mean the British Generals that wasn't xenophobia but incompetence. They did it to all nationalities everywhere. There is a classic amongst classics in TV comedy about life in the First World W
Sadly, the people who really win wars don't wear uniforms. Industrial might and organization is usually the deciding factor. Thus the U.S, was in the war from "lend lease" on.. The Germans realized t
Consider yourself corrected. Although it was true that we weren't involved as a nation until the last year or so, plenty of guys (and gals) volunteered and fought for the Allies from the very beginni