Fascinating thank you Sir

Nice video, I love people maintaining their history and heritage. However I must point out that this eagle was NOT carried at Marengo (1800) or brought to Ireland (1798) as the first eagles were only handed out in 1804.

Why do these IDIOTS think it's such a great idea to put this frigging LOUD "music" in these documentaries (and movies). Just wrote a letter today: Letter to Four Winters Film 9-18-22 I'm looking at your "Four Winter" trailer. I'm praying to GOD if I ever see this that some idiot director, (Julia Mintz?), didn't put this LOUD "music" in the movie I'm seeing in the trailer. I have to pause and take a breath because I get so Pissed Off at seeing these movies and documentaries with this "dramatic music" or theme music or whatever it's called BLASTING it's way through the whole film. I always need subtitles to understand what the people are saying because this NOISE is always BLASTING through the actor's or narrator's dialogue....In Every Frigging Movie I See! I'm hard of hearing but I ask people why I don't need subtitles for movies and documentaries made in the 40's and 50s. Even when they "stage whisper" in old movies I can understand every word. Actors today don't seem to be trained stage actors and either literally whisper/mumble their lines or talk like they have a mouth full of marbles. “Four Winters” trailer: jewishpartisansfilm.com/trailer And this is a picture of a hand-made sign I have in my front window. In case you can't see it, it says "STAND WITH ISRAEL".

One minute and twenty seconds. That's all I could handle of that goddamned noise.

@@nerashendymion9811 Napoleon wasn't even in power in France in 1798, during the revolt in Ireland, much less 1792 when the "Napoleonic" wars began (he was a second lieutenant at the time). The confusion about Marengo (14th of June 1800) probably came from Marengo being on the flag of the regiment among its battle honours. But it's an ironic slip, given that the video showed the painting (by David) of the newly crowned Emperor of the French (the coronation was three days earlier, on the 2nd of December 1804) receiving the oath from the colonels of the regiments, to whom he's just personally handed their eagle, one by one, to defend their eagle with their lives. It was one of four huge paintings (two were completed) commissioned by HM the Emperor to commemorate his coronation and the ceremonies around it.

Well, sir, on first sighting this comment, I naturally clicked upvote. That's my style, sir!

"finding"

As indeed do the Royal Scots Greys. now the Royal Scots Dragoon Guards, who are very proud of Ensign Ewart, who captured the Napoleonic 45th Regiment's eagle. He too was later commissioned as a recogition of his bravery, while the eagle went to Ediburgh Castle the HHQ of the regiment, and the eagle became the emblem of the regiment with the word "Waterloo" behind. The regiment intend to hold another battlefield tour in July 2023. As always a wonderful account read by General Barney W-S!

@@nigeldunkley2986 If he was an ensign at the time of the event then he was an officer, equivalent to a second lieutenant.

it sounds like they both captured it, give credit where it is due

Mr. Class Warrior.

@@adrianh332 at the time of the battle Charles Ewart was not an an ensign - he was commissioned the following year so 1816.

Yes. I have made a comment on that story. His regiment was the Royal Scots Greys and the eagle became their badge. Ewart was a sergeant when he captured the eagle and was promoted ensign in recognition of his feat.

I have seen the French Imperial Eagle of 45th Regiment of the Line of Napoleon's Army displayed at the Royal Scots Dragoon Guards Regimental Museum at Edinburgh Castle 🏰.

@@dennis12dec "The Royal Scots Greys was a cavalry regiment of the British Army from 1707 until 1971, when they amalgamated with the 3rd Carabiniers (Prince of Wales's Dragoon Guards) to form the Royal Scots Dragoon Guards." Sic transit gloria mundi.

I do believe he is buried at the gates of Edinburgh Castle. There is a monument for him there.

@@davidw.robertson448 The history of the RSDG actually goes back to 1678 when three companies of Scottish Dragoons were raised for service against the Covenanters. This was expanded to a regiment in 1681 under the command of Lt. Gen. Thomas (Tam) Dalyell of the Binns. Having joined the side of William & Mary in the Glorious Revolution, they were given the title 'Royal Regiment of Scots Dragoons' in 1692 by William III. The nickname 'Royal Scots Greys' probably originated about this time either from them wearing grey tunics or the fact that their mounts had grey/white coats by 1694. The first written reference to them as 'Grey Dragoons' comes from the Battle of Blenheim in 1704 (during the War of the Spanish Succession). After the Act of Union between Scotland and England (1707) they were renamed the 'Royal North British Dragoons' and then they were renumbered as the '2nd (Royal North British) Dragoons' in 1713 . The 2nd Dragoons did not take part in the Peninsular War but, like the Royal Dragoons of the video, they formed part of the heavy cavalry Union Brigade at Waterloo during which they attacked d'Erlon's Corps - Sergeant Ewart capturing the eagle of the 45th Line Regiment. It wasn't until 1866 that the nickname 'Royal Scots Greys' was officially included in their title and this was then shortened to '2nd Dragoons (Royal Scots Greys)' in 1877. The 3rd Carabiniers had a similar long and convoluted history having been formed from the amalgamation of the 3rd and 6th Dragoon Guards - both of whom could trace their origins back (via various named regiments) to the 17th century.

And Sharpe went from a rookery near where Tower Bridge is now and mysteriously picked up a Sheffield accent! 'I wa born int' brothel and ma moova wuz a hoo'er' 😂

Taking single-handed credit for winning a battle 1.5 centuries before I was born, that's my style sir! Hrrmph!

And he single handedly won the indian campaign and was even present at the battle of Trafalgar! Of course that's because Cornwall had run out of time line and decided to have "Sharpe the early years".

@@udeychowdhury2529 now that’s soldiering

It says so in the scriptures…….I can’t die Sharpey. They are good books. One of the best lines is the cavalry’s brains are between the horses ears.

That was proper soldiering.

Although he had some help from the Prince Regent (allegedly) “Bravo Dick!!”🤣

Sharpe ended up in the SAS.... what a hero!

@@siypic Soldiering as Soldiers Group??

"Annoying the Cavalry Regiments museum curator! Now that's soldiering!"

Well, sir, on first seeing your comment, I naturally upvoted it. That's my style, sir.

I did the same back in 2017 when I visited St Paul's. I had such an eerie and emotional feeling come over me. I was speechless for a little while afterwards.

I understand. You read about these men and you see lots of portrayals of them on TV and in movies but to actually stand next to their mortal remains is a real experience.

churchill would of made it a hatrick

@STEAMDECKGAMINGYT He probably was given the option of St Pauls or Westminster Abbey but he chose to be buried close to his p(a)lace of birth.

Lovely experience chum. My father in law bought me Wellington's autograph for a significant birthday, and had it framed along with a copy of that famous painting of him. One of my favourite things especially since my old regiment took us on a battlefield tour of the Peninsula wars and I actually stood on the same balcony he jumped from to escape from the French Cavalry. Brilliant tour l d by Duncan Anderson along with 38 Inf Bde Comd. BTW, before anyone chips in, the signature is from when Wellington was PM.

Crikey... Waterloo stories and legacy continue to this day! Thanks for posting this!

He did well in those days surviving to 69, especially after service in India.

@@russ9921 He died aged 74 and his wife died aged 82. Private at Waterloo. Lieutenant Colonel at 69 in HEIC Madras Army.

@@philread386 Wow his memoir would make a wonderful read..he would have served during the sepoy mutiny...Co-incidently I live close to the original site of the HEIC military Seminary (Academy) in Addiscombe 'Croydon'..🧐

@@derekodriscoll7178 He went to India and promptly married a 14 year old widow who gave him 15 children. He rose to Lieutenant Colonel in the Madras army. He was mainly administration by that time. His first son was a captain in the native infantry. I know the HEIC armies weren't considered as good as the British army by some but they did "obtain" India for the British.

Sorry not mine we working class and the rank and file soldiers were scum read up on his thoughts on the peterloo massacre and the corn laws great commander but not a nice man give me napoleon Bonaparte every time not a perfect man but a genius never the less sorry again

😮please upload on KZfaq

The eagle is on display in surgeons hall. Museum in Edinburgh along with his bloodied tunic the eagle is black and gold in colour and looks like it is made of wood but no doubt it is bronze it is not shiny like the one here

Seems every regiment grabbed one. 🤔

thats because your a Tin and dont appreciate having Regimental History being in such a Crow of a Regiment.lol

Great hero

Cornwell has actually written a non-fiction account of the battle entitled "Waterloo: The True Story of Four Days, Three Armies and Three Battles".

i went in April that year so chilling

1969 Steve Glover not 1967.

Buggers used to drive past us all the time in Sennybridge laughing at us scumbags in the inf lol.

Glad you enjoyed it!

Yer tellin me mate. Once we took a month to list, clean, load the old SA80's to send back to England, and on the last day, to the minute, when the CO's run went past, me and my Sgt were just about to put the last locks on the containers, when a certain Knobjockey CSM rounded the container, told me and Sean to clear off and turned to lock the container in front of the CO. Absolute shower of pish he was. Useless. He got a big pat on the back and a harrhar from the CO for all his hard work. We hadn't seen the ballbag for 4 months.........

was waiting for this.

Thank you! 👍

​@@spikefunakoshi5667 I can see that the current energy crisis cannot affect you, as the endless supply of chips upon your shoulder will keep you permanently warm. And exactly how many jobs for others have YOU created? Or those that educated you? Is not creating jobs - real jobs - not just keeping the party rank and file employed - a good way of taking good care of the working people around you? In the 1870s, when the world price of tin slumped due to alluvial tin being found in both Malaya and Bolivia, my family spent a small fortune employing unemployed Cornish miners to dig ditches and build walls in Penwith. ...... Similar things were done in the 1920s and 30s. Of course, you would see that as exploiting the Working Class, because that is the only image you load in your mindset. / Precisely because people like you hate us so much, although I intended to employ others, I soon realised that it meant being a slave to socialism, and so employed no-one. Instead of companies being owned by local families who knew the people they employed, the post-socialist companies are owned by corporation based in Dubai or New York - with zero knowledge of, let alone love of, the people and area the company is based in. / The Working Class - through it's leaders - shot itself in the foot, and has been paying the price ever since.

​@@spikefunakoshi5667 With respect, the REAL Working Class are the salt of the earth, and do not 'touch forelocks', nor do the people that I come from expect anyone to touch forelocks. ...... Maybe you watch too many films on TV - they are imaginings of the past - often coloured by political leanings - not rock solid portrayals of real events. It is not 'the uppity nature of workers who embrace the socialist model' but those that manipulate and control things to advance a political cause not born in these islands - marxism. It was Arthur Scargill 'who destroyed the mining industry' - a man whose political allegiance was to Moscow. ...... The miners were led like lambs to the slaughter by their leaders, who lived like princes from the union dues of their members. It was insanity to destroy mining, and to destroy engineering, so we at last agree on something. Maybe we can agree that SOMETHING is hell bent on destroying EVERYTHING we hold dear, because every area of society has been attacked, from my people early on ( and never ceasing ), right down to the attack on Men, the whole series of 'Wars on' ( crime, drugs, terror, and so on - all unwinnable ), and most recently the attacks on Women and Children, together with the War on A Virus that has caused catastrophic damage right across the globe, as the medicine the script demanded people take was far more dangerous than the 'threat' itself. / Part of the military interrogation process to completely break a prisoner's will to resist, is to constantly pull the rug from under his feet, never giving him time to pause and think, and moving time and goalposts frequently. ...... The same process is being used on the Human Guinea Pig population on a global scale. This means that divide and rule, based on terrorising the global population, numbs the brain of countless millions, who either hide under their duvets, and fight for causes long out of date, for the enemy we all face is a far greater threat than Hitler ever was. And that enemy is everywhere. / So the real battle is The Journey of Self-Discovery - the very thing this global system fears more than anything else. You see, this system literally feeds ofn Fear. ...... Only Fear attacks. ...... Those who conquer Fear - and thus cease to feed the system - cause the system to wither and starve, whereas those that attack nourish the system. This is why people are glued to their TVs being brainwashed by a system that is loveless. This is why social media giants censor views that do not fit the system's global script - they fear Truth - the truth that sets people free. It is called The Great Awakening, and the process kicked off at Harmonic Convergence, the world's first synchronized global peace meditation, which occurred on August 16-17, 1987, although the groundwork was laid centuries before. The aim? ...... To create an energy on Earth that collapses portions of the system one-by-one, so that positive change can be made, and exposing just how evil the system is. ...... Russia is one part of the system currently going throug this process. / What I am saying, is that a far bigger game is being played than you are currently aware of. And now you know. / Tell me, do you know the Law of Karma? What you put out, comes back? Can you live by a law with six words? I do. / The word 'karma' triggers a kneejerk reaction in people according to their current understand. ...... Some respond with attack. A barrister prosecuting myself in a fabricated charge based upon the ( unknown to myself ) blackmail of my father by police covering up council crimes I exposed, 'burnt' me to achieve a wrongful conviction. Eight years later, during which I returned bad energy back to source vi the Law of Karma, the barrister, now Judge Andrew Chubb QC, covered himself in petrol, and struck a match. Two years after that, someone passed me a copy of The Times. ...... On the front page was a photo of Chubb dolled-up in his judge's outfit, and a report of his Second Inquest, for his self-administered death was signally unusual in many ways. / I instantly realised that Life was notifying me of Chubb's death, enabling me to connect the dots, and realise that we are not defenceless against tyranny of any sort, provided we peracefull use our minds. / I have practiced free-flow Tai Chi for 28 years, and apart from it's exercise and martial art benefits, it is good meditation. The best battle won, is that where sword never leaves scabbard. The above statement came to me in meditation, and a while afterwards, it was demonstrated to me in no uncertain terms. / There is more than one way to skin a cat. We are more powerful than we are led to believe. We are never alone. And while our Birth-to-Death-I-Dentities die many times, the being that we really are, within The One Mind, can never die. This is what I have learnt from experience, and why I only need the Law of Karma to live freely. / What you resist, persists. Think of Bruce Lee, 'Be like water'. Or as I put it:- Be like a rock; let the waves break. Be like a pebble; let the waves wash you along. / Maybe you will find something here of use to you?

​@@spikefunakoshi5667 You know the way some working people may have been treated by some bosses, and you brand all bosses with the same attributes. Let me tell you something I was told 45 years ago by a Scotsman from Glasgow, afflicted by polio, who rose to be the chief accountant of G-Plan furniture. Ron Adamson said 'Never take the bread out of another man's mouth', which he explained was the ethos his family worked to in Glasgow. ...... I took this in. I also looked at the asset strippers of the 1970s, like Slater Walker, and so on, and thought that I would never act as they do. I wanted to create jobs where I could look my employees in the face, without either government or unions getting in the way. No-one could have been keener to employ, but it was made absolutely clear to me that my sense of duty was - as you put it 'patronising', and that I could 'f**k off' ( including some nasty crimes committed by council and police to stop an environmental / rural regeneration project I set up in Cornwall ). My younger brother farms, and around 1979 I had told him that farming would be panned. ...... He laughed. ...... Within a short time quotas appeared from nowhere, and farmers who cared for their land were being beaten by farmers who were better at filling in forms. Our country is being choked by a stranglehold the system exerts. Just as you are full of rage at what your grandfather suffered, and have moved towards martial arts and buddhism as a result, I had an anger that was so strong, I knew I had to make healing my rfirst priority. Not earning money, or developing relationships - healing. And this is the point - the system feeds on anger, because stems from Fear. Only by conquering each fear as it emerges can you move to the next level of the game. / Question. Given the anger that you feel, would you say that your spiritual awareness has changed your anger in any way? I had my ENTIRE WAY OF LIFE DESTROYED because of the actions of one chief planning officer, who chose to disregard a 16 to zero approval vote for planning approval, in which he first falsified the planning committee minutes, and then returned the case to committee without informing me, told a pack of lies, and got a refusal vote. A huge coverup ensued. ...... During this, I privately prosecuted the council solicitor for attacking me 4 times in a public place, twice with aerosol cans of paint, literally trying to do with paint what he was doing in his office - coverup the reason he was the 'LIAR & PERJURER' I was publicly accusing him of by means of a sign. He was a convicted. ...... Soon afterwards, the local chief inspector vanished, and a Superintendent took over, a man I was informed had been trained by the FBI in 'dirty tricks'. ...... This man blackmailed my father ( although I knew nothing of that for years ). As a result, I was convicted of a concocted criminal charge, bankrupted and ruined, which destroyed any chance of civil litigation against the council, meaning they had saved both the socialist chief planner, and the council, from liability. During this, I had open and public support from the local mayor, one district and one county councillors. ...... The district councillor had sworn an affidavit against his own council accusing the chief planner of criminal offences. ...... Once I was destroyed as a threat, the planner began a campaign against the councillor, whivh resulted in a bulldozer being put through his home. ...... I kid you not. Councillor Tony Knott of Calstock, Cornwall, was a Working Class man, who had been a fireman, and he was a broken man, unable to fight, and it was his wife, July, who was inspired by my fight with the council, and faced with the council's intention to pay no compensation, took it to court and won. I got to know them quite well, as I often visited their home, and the damage done by criminally dishonest government is terrible. / So you are not alone in having things to be angry about. I am alive. The police barrister who 'burnt me' to achieve a wrongful conviction to destroy me, is ashes, because he covered himself in petrol, and struck a match. The chief planner got a better job, but within 2 years was out on his ear, and never held a top post again. The council solicitor got kidney disease and retired early What they put out, came back. / I was doing Tai Chi on a summer's day on an area of grass and trees in the centre of Brighton, surrounded by traffic. ...... My eyes were closed. ...... A drunk 100 yards away decided to run shoulder down at me, and knock me over. I became aware of him a moment before contact between his fast-moving force, and my stationary body. Contrary to physics, he bounced back 5 or 6 feet, unhurt. I was entirely unmoved. ...... I just 'happened' to be in the precise energetic position that repelled his force effortlessly. When my eyes opened, they were looking directly into his, or more accurately, through him. The man instantly turned tail, and ran off. I knew I had passed a test, and that the meaning of 'The greatest battle ever won, is that where sword never leaves scabbard'. / I therefore use my mind to peacefully collapse individuals, organisations and countries that cause harm to others. To do this, I simply think of the Law of Karma, visualise actions that I may allege are wrongdoings, and return that bad energy back to source, via the Law of Karma, leaving all else to the Keepers of Karma, who I trust to deliver Perfect Justice in their own time, not just for those concerned, but for those around them too. I therefore have zero interest in English Law, having seen the way in which courts are rigged, and just know that Real Justice will come. As I know I have lived before, I no longer feel the same hurry to get results I once did, so my need to be angry has subsided. ...... Not gone. ...... Subsided. ...... I have yet to pass that test. / I believe that our world will advance faster when more people live by such simple techniques. The key to collapsing systems, is to wthdraw the energies that sustain them. Hate, for example. What you resist, persists. / I invented a 'word' to express this. I will include it in my next post. / I use exchanges like ours to generate the reactive/creative flow that brings threads of thought together in a piece of writing, perhaps for a website or a book.

@@spikefunakoshi5667 ( I wrote this earlier today, and it ties into where we are ). / A country run for Marxists? ...... Or a country run for Corporations. ...... What a sour choice. Both are global tyranny. Both have no interest in people, except control. Both are opposed to Freedom - which is shrinking daily. Truth is, THE ENTIRE SYSTEM is not there for us. The stupid 'Them or Us' class war is just puppets playing in the global script, which has become visible to millions of people in the way a minor health issue closed down an entire planet, with politicians in countless countries all mouthing exactly the same platitudes from exactly the same script. / The rug is being pulled out from under EVERYONE'S FEET. Wake up! ...... This is not a drill. ...... We are at war. We are under attack. ...... By Marxism. ...... By Globalism. Our own system of government is marxist/globalist - IT DOES NOT REPRESENT US. / A light switches on in the mind that realises ( real eyes ) that the pantomime we see orchestrated in front of us to a global script IS NOT REALITY, it is merely a script. When that light turns on, the Human Being BEGINS - I repeat, BEGINS to think outside the box ( more accurately, the cage ). / (R)evolution = is simply Keeping Peaceful Evolution in Mind, because angry people traditionally head for revolution, which inevitably brings violence with it, feeding the primitive fear-based system running our lives in the world cage. So by adding brackets around the 'R', we emphasise that we have entered a state of (R)esistance to global tyranny, and we are open to receiving the 'weapons' ( non-violent ) that collapse systems internally, WITHOUT excessive external force being required. In Ukraine, the brutal attack by Russia has revealed the true nature of the Russian state, and step-by-step, Karma is ruthlessly stripping Russia naked. ...... This process was initiated by Russia in a classic 'I shot myself in the foot' move. ...... This same process will be seen elsewhere - all over the world. This is why the global tyranny has unleashed over the past 30 years an endless stream of 'Wars on' - all of which are unwinnable - and all of which are designed to terrorise the masses into divide and rule. / You have to turn your light on. Become a spiritual warrior. Learn discernment. Live by Karma = what you put out, comes back. / The greatest battle ever won, is that where sword never leaves cabbard. Consider the above statement. / Could you visualise a new system of government, created from a clean slate, that could replace every existing system of government on Earth. Think about. Create space in your mind for it. Let it grow. And it will. / The system attacks because it fears the light that is turning on in many millions of people, faster and faster. This light can only reduce fear of the system, thus reducing the psychic food that fear provides the system with, initiating the withering starvation that directly leads to the death of primitive fear-based systems on Earth. / This will not be achieved tomorrow, next year, next decade, or even possibly next century. But it will be achieved, mark my words. / The question is, do you wish to be a part of this positive change, or apart from it? KISS = Keep It Superbly Simple.

​@@spikefunakoshi5667 Unions have myopic vision. If unions knew how to run business, we would all be living in Utopia. Unions ought to balance the security of the company ( and thus it's employees ) with the remuneration of it's employees. Besides, I have sen Karma at work, while everything I have ever observed with unions seems to have harmed both country and union members in the end. / "the total lack of concern or care by those with the wealth and power towards those without those things". A sweeping statement. Some people of all classes display abysmal behaviour, just as some people of all classes display exemplary behaviour. Just because some Working Class men murder and rape does not mean I regard all Working Class men as murderers and rapists. / en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nevil_Shute The author Neville Shute was not Working Class, was a senior engineer on the R100 Airship ( not the the R101 ), and set up the Aircraft manufacturer, Airspeed, during which he skated very close to jail to keep his company alive, being very much aware of how his efforts affected Working Class people. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Airspeed_Ltd. Shute's feelings for his workers are clearly revealed in his novel, Ruined City, which I read as a young man. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruined_City / Tibet was and is a terrible crime against humanity. ...... I read Seven Years in Tibet 50 years ago, and loved it. ...... I have also read of the 1904 Younghusband Expedition to Lhasa. ...... I keep Tibet in my thoughts, though not as often as I might wish. Was it their Karma? ...... Who knows? ...... For some, yes. ...... For others it may simply being in the wrong place at the wrong time. / It is good that education has expanded. ...... What is not good is that large numbers of people take degrees of little practical value, and expect high paid jobs as a result. ...... Of course, much of the decision-making for the provision of jobs is made by a class of people who make sure that their class get the lion's share of jobs available, cementing their power to infiltrate and control the administrative areas of government, education, universities, health etc. One result is a lack of people to do relatively basic jobs, leading to millions unemployed or sick ( many faking it ), while millions of foreigners are brought in, with all the attendent problems - which provide yet more employment for the controlling class. / Unions are run by people whose real allegiance is not to their members, but to their politics. Which is why many Working Class people dislike unions. Unions destroyed many good companies in the 1970s. / You talk of the hungry 20s. Look back to history. Originally there was no welfare state, and it was the parish that was saddled with dealing with the poor, centuries before area councils were even thought of, plus religious organisations took care of the sick and needy. At the same time, the gentry and nobles could easily pay with their head if they earned the displeasure of the king, so all classes faced existential threats. ...... Both gentry and nobles were the backbone of England's army, being responsible to the king for equiping and training knights, men-at-arms, and archers. This was reflected for centuries by the use of large country houses and their parks for military manouevres. ...... And when the call came in 1914 and 1939, the gentry and nobility laid down their lives in a higher percentage than junior ranks. Contrary to BBC programs depicting war, and Blackadder, there were plenty of intelligent oficers. ...... One was a cousin of mine, an officer in the Royal Flying Corps, who pioneered the use of air-to-ground radio for artillery spotting, and was an intelligence officer in WW2, before meeting Douglas Reeman, with the result that his name became that of the author's hero, Richard Bolitho. ...... Another Bolitho was famous for jumping out of burning balloons while artillery spotting. In WW2, another Bolitho cousin was a Grenadier Guards company commander, who fought in North Afric and Italy, where he won a Military Cross. ...... I once met him, and he realised that I was living near one of his former officers. ...... I asked him what that officer was like. ...... He replied ' A tiger in battle - and a trial out'. The officer class was bled dry. Did you know that in 1940 a lord was killed with his young son by a bomb in London, and as without the bomb both would have been subject to Death Duties, a court decided that the lord died first, so that TWO taxes could be levied? Equally, it was monstrous that merchant seaman had their pay turned off from the moment their ship was sunk. / It was the rising middle class that sanatised the cities, built the sewers, and created the engineering that made our modern world possible. Cities made the old parish system of support untenable, plus people began to live longer, adding burden to the existing system. ...... For this reason it was right that an expanding provision to protect the poor was made, and it is true that socialism played a part in that process. It was the First World War that greatly expanded the power of socialism due to the large numbers of posts created to control and regulate most aspects of life. ...... It is also true that a certain class of people greatly enjoyed exercising that power while others were away at war. / The end of the war simply brought to the fore the limitations of a system that had never been designed for the world it was in, and reforms never kept pace with changes on the ground, meaning that hardship was inevitable. If companies are at risk of bankruptcy, and thus the loss of the collective effort to create, run, and maintain it, and to save the company oit is necessary to cut one's cloth to suit one's circumstances, it is counterproductive for unions to strike, thus further reducing the company's productivity, and rapidly diminishing it's cash reserves and credit, possibly leading to insolvency. Ever seen people from the insolvency business at work? ...... I have. ...... Thugs armed with baseball bats. ...... Officials that physically shove you out of the way. ...... No effort made to sell items at a proper price. ...... Property I was informed was sold, but NOT at the highest price offered. ........ There is a brutality to the way that government treats failed businesses that workers rarely experience ( the loss of worker's company pension funds being one major legislative failing ). ...... At least workers have unions and lawyers - failed business people are totally on their own in a dirty jungle. And there are socialists who say they deserve nothing less. / There never is a shortage of money, or a shortage of opportunity, or ( usually ) a shortage of people capable of making things happen. ...... The problem is always the rigid slow-moving sludge of a framework that controls everything. Socialism accelerated the controls, which over tme have become unseen bars in a cage that severely limits innovation. Take the NHS, admittedly a grat innovation, one which was assumed would cost a fortune to start, but costs would rapidly decrease as a healthier population took better care of itself. What do we have now? ...... A huge bloated beached whale, where many of it's doctors refuse to even see patients, many can barely speak English, and a population that has steadily increased in both illness and weight. ...... In short an utter disaster ( and no, I do not advocate American-style healthcare ). / If the Welfare state just produces large numbers of grossly obese people, when do we admit that Britain has a deep-seated problem in it's mindset. Part of the 'I will eat until I am unemployable' strategy adopted by thousands of people, is the knowledge that socialism loves such pepole AS THEY ARE TOTALLY DEPENDENT upon areas of government that socialism effectively controls. Dependent people vote socialist, so to get power, socialist must increase the number of dependent people, whle forcing other people to pay for it. What an utter waste of resources. / Workers who are proud of their work see their taxes squandered, and local resources taken by millions of immigrants. Business people are being relentlesslty squeezed, while the multinational corporations rake in billions, practically tax-free. This is not a recipe for a successful country. A divided house tends to fall. Government's quantative easing by Gordon Brown, plus the recent squandering of £400 billion over a silly virus panic, means that the poor are being robbed blind by INFLATION - the inevitable result of printing money. ...... This is the biggest deliberate theft in history. / Leaving aside the multinationals, the problem is not the non-working classes - it is THE ENTIRE SYSTEM OF GOVERNMENT. What we need, is to start from a clean slate. ...... Not communist. ...... Not globalist. This is what I work for, as part of The Great Awakening.

Not only that, but the King's colour of the 69th at quatre bras 2 days before

"England civilized the world" raped, murdered and oppressed is the true result. name me a country that they didnt do this to?

The Army or Peninsular Gold Cross was not restricted to generals - it was awarded to officers of the rank of major and above who were eligible for four Army Gold Medals (and replaced those). Further, the awarding of the Waterloo Medal to all who participated in the battles of Ligny, Quatre-bras and Waterloo caused a lot of ill feeling in veterans of the (French) Revolutionary, Napoleonic and 1812 Wars. They had often served longer and fought in multiple battles yet received nothing in recognition. This was the reason both the Naval and Military General Service Medals were authorised in 1847 - for surviving participants of these wars. Hence, Corporal Styles, despite having fought in several Peninsular War actions, would not have been awarded an MGSM (with clasps) as he had already died by this time.

Yes ,sounds like a Conservative minister!!! British army seems no different now!

And one hell of a good officer - both at regimental and staff level.

Getting killed by someone called “Barney”-if that’s not humiliating, frankly I don’t know what is!

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@@minno234 and an utter gent of the rare breed of intellectual academia with modesty and warmth