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No wonder that we British were labelled with the old Crimea war tag "Lions led by Donkeys"
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| Posted: Wed Jul 2nd, 2008 05:57 pm |
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How ones words can come back to bite. Just over a year before the Somme where General Haig sent British troops into the teeth of German machine-guns with such catastrophic results he had written, in April 1915, in a memo to the British War Council, " The machine-gun is a much overated weapon and two per battalion is more than sufficient" No wonder that we British were labelled with the old Crimea war tag "Lions led by Donkeys"
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