Bøø9 r u having a go at him?

Why were those parts exiting though? Had they had enough of being in the book?

Oof, my bad. That should obviously be "eksaiting" ( i honestly have no idea how to spell it right)

Bøø9 exciting with the c... English is weird sometimes (and it's the only language I know)

Bøø9 exciting sounds like "axe-sight-ing" but is spelled ex-cit-ing. It is one of those words that is difficult to spell based on how it sounds, it is no big deal really.

But that is a deception . . .

That's fair.

Nonsense, the English are the true Romans, of course! Haven't you watched HBO?

Whata mistake a to make!

And a ridiculous Chinese for the first bit

Squirrel!

jubuttib Frogs are gay.

Pavel Paškevič Only because of the water

No no should be been snails

Pavel Paškevič so are the french

The French are alright.

This was on my mind as well, DietrichvonSachsen. I wonder whether Magruder had been aware of Brock's successful ploy before he implemented a similar endeavour.

@@cephalopad Unlikely, because Magruder put in a comprehensive after-action report. The only troop movements were sending two Alabama regiments of Wilcox's brigade to Wynn's Mill in response to a recce, and then calling them back.

Cochrane is a video all to himself.

Aye! ;)

I'm also surprised the marching-troops-in-a-circle is attributed to that guy at Corinth, whereas it was used half a century earlier by Major-General Sir Isaac Brock in the Siege of Fort Detroit, to much greater effect.

Fort Detroit. Wasn't that the one where a superior force was bluffed into surrendering to a single small group who kept popping up here, there and everywhere convincing the defenders that they were completely surrounded?

+harbl99 - Something like that, yes. Brock also played on the fact that the US troops were afraid that the Shawnee and other native allies of the British might not be very forgiving to their enemies, so he sent letters into Fort Detroit with texts like "I'm not sure I'll be able to keep my allies from utterly ransacking your fort should this siege need to be fought out" and stuff like that, just to make the US forces inside the fort not only think they were up against superior opposition, but also really fear the consequences of a potential defeat.

But the Trojan horse is not a historical event, merely mythological.

Still famous, though. :o)

McClellan was a timid commander , relying too much on superior numbers of troops and supplies . He may have been a good logistics officer , but he was a poor manager of Intel and lacked aggression . He was the kind of officer that can build an army , but not command forces in the theater of operations .

@Magni56 Abe- "Get on with it!" XD

@@fenriders7008 I’m not sure if that is known.

Leo Edwards “Your mother was a Hamster!”

Rebeca Mugwort "and your father smells of elderberries!"

I fart in your direction.

This' but a scratch!

You and three quarters of your repliers managed to misquote Python. One even just threw in an unrelated line from the Black Knight, missing the point entirely. Even the Spanish laugh at this country. It is pitiful.

Therein lies the deceit.

At least you would die with lowered cholesterol.

Triggered! I just died today morning from the Strike OF Porridge.

It’s less the impact that was lethal, but the slipping and sliding comically into trees, carts, and the occasional horse that was.

You could also say chocolate bars. The Cadbury chocolate company was started and run by quakers for years! Theresa good story about a boers war new years day gift order of 'fine chocolates' by queen Victoria and the problems that came about by the company boy wanting to support any war efforts.

AB Can we get this as a top comment?

No to both of you

AB Bindyfief.

hey i know you

*don't*

maxim 43: if its stupid and works, its still stupid and you're lucky

Maxim 43: If it's stupid and it works, it's still stupid and you're lucky.

Well the Battle of Minden is one.

"How to Lose a Battle" Very interesting book. www.amazon.com/How-Lose-Battle-Military-Blunders/dp/0060760249/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1533940302&sr=8-1&keywords=how+to+lose+a+battle

i like the sound of that

I cannot imagine Vercingetorix without that accent now.

*^_^*

If they were Celts, wouldn't they have Welsh accents? /s

Well, if the French accent has to come from somewhere, it might as well be from the Gauls. Who's to say Gaulish didn't sound like Welsh spoken with an outrageous French accent?

RE Are you implying Allo Allo was a deception?

Axel Andersson murder

RIP Diplo monarch points

Unless the HRE themselves are in the war you are better off taking a boat round

Just wait a month or two and the enemy will score access through half of Europe and you can use that.

Vienna was besieged so everyone had access already

One of the few times a cinema sin wouldn't sin 😂

Poor bastard.

carthage carthage missouri

Pepper Spray Finally! Lindy mentions a place I’ve been to besides London.

I just finished a ver good and detailed book about the fighting on the italian front. (Isonzo by John R. Schindler) and as much as i like your story it isn't backed up by it. Some minor things: The only uniform part that would have been needed to simulate Bosniaks would have been the Fez, they had the same guns (all the A-H Army had the same guns) but the Bosniaks were particularly proud and proficiant with knifes (as far as i remember) but you would not be able to spott these from a Balloon. So they had a fierce reputation in close quaters. Balloonobservers would have been shot down. The aerial recon the italians did was by plane (much harder to hit, faster etc.). And lastely i would recommend to read the book if you can get a hold on it, or maybe watch The Great Wars special about Luigi Cadorna her on yt. He send millions of infanterists running straight into machinegunfire without any chance of gaining anthing but a high bodycount on their own side, but he didn't care. The only reasons he called of offenses were: lack on men or material, complete exhaustion of his soldiers (after an offensive when the remaing few couldn't be made to go over the top anymore) or bad weather. Heck he even used decimation (killing every tenth soldier of a unit he thought lacked fighting spirit) And he was the only one to call on or off offenses on the italian side until they eventually got rid of him. The Bosniaks were, by the accounts i read, formiddable fighters, (even to this day there is a street named after the 2nd Bosniaks in Graz: Zweierbosniakengasse) but they weren't the only ones. On the Italian front soldiers from every region/crownland (later nationality) fought exceptionally well, and their fighting spirit was high even though they were outnumbered and outgunned (numerically in artillery, shells and small arms ammo) and were short on supplies (water, food clothing) the whole time! They stood their ground for 12 battles and even threw back the italians to the piave. (One has to say it wasn't the fault of the common italian soldier, they fought bravely but the commando supremo was just.... And in this offensive they even got a little help from the germans: a few good men but more vital ammo and artillery) But speaking of deception: every participant country in WW1 did a certain thing: they before they attacked they shelled their opponent for a certain time with artillery, when it stopped the infatery came over the top, so when the shelling stopped everybody on the defensive side rushed forward as well to defend. The Austrians, short of ammo as always once shelled the italians, stopped, but didn't go over the top. Instead waited a few minuted (for the italians to reach the trenches, then they started shelling again for a short time, then advancing with the infantery. => deception? maybe, but i would call it understanding your opponents tactics and adapting to it.

nirfz Interesting. I also read a book a few years ago that detailed the story. Of course the uniform thing I mentioned did only constitute the swapping of helmets for the fez. I'll look into the claim of the story further, hopefully if I find something I can come back and edit this post.

Amar Ramic - Would you happen to be Bosnian, by any chance?

Fuzzy Dunlop Indeed. I try to learn as much as I can from the really obscure and forgotten history

So things in german wouldn't help i guess? Because there are a few accounts for the Bosniak K.u.K. regiments.

Him and BigMoneySalvia

Have either of you ever seen internethistorian? A very much different type of person who deals with very much different types of videos but his ads are the best on youtube.

He could be sponsored by RAID:Shadow Legends for 5 Videos in a Row and if they let him makr his own Script he could make it interesting every single time,but RAID:Shadow Legends has a very Stiff and Firm Script for every single video they Sponsor so its very boring,frankly the first time I saw the Footmouse part of their new Script I was genuinely curious about Footmouse....but as soon as it got to RAID:Shadowlegends I was immediately frustrated and skipped the segment. I only watch through Sponsored Segments from KZfaqrs I love or when Im feeling nice and have extra time for my extra time

Video game Dunkey though

Filled this out to say his ad was also in-formative

"Oh, oh, just one more thing. Yes, that's it. Avenge me!"

A T truely

I envision him acting it out like the Studio Tour he did! 😆

James Donaldson Louis the XVII didn't have much imagination when it came to picking baby names.

David Hoffman It was a rule, if you wanted the prince to be a possible future king, name him Louis. Number added at coronation, if achieved. Watching our own dynasty, even the minor princes and princesses far outside the main line get the appropriate name somewhere in their full name, just in case.

I just wanted to write that, but we'll he has so many things on his mind...😁

Milos Zikic Learn English.

Sorry, I can't on my smart phone I can just write in latin: Nomen est omen.

damn it, I was 3 hours too late!

Milos Zikic holy Roman empire?

tomtom21194 Which reminds me of another deception: A castle had been under siege for a long time and was running out of food. As a last desperate strategy they fed their last food to the last pig, then threw it over the wall to the enemy. The surrounding enemy believed they must still have huge supplies when they just throw us a whole pig like it's nothing. Enemy gave up and left.

John Francis Doe it’s a reference to Monty python and the holy grain.

'Fear & Loathing in Bovington'? - 'The tank pulled up outside the building with a jerk, the jerk got out & we got in . . .

It would definitely be a bloated book with how much digression lindy makes, and all of it are worth listening to

I've never heard this, more detail/where to look please.

Classic Dutch. When in doubt, polder!

That reminds me of that time that the US Navy threatened a Canadian lighthouse to move out the way :)

if I stand still enough they wont be able to see me

Fishfingers that was fake I’m pretty sure

7:00 -- * confused Gallic (Gaulish?) noises *

I will always think of him as "Vitalstatistix" - thanks to Goscinny. :-P (And can't forget Asterix, Obelix, Getafix, Cacafonix, et. al.)

Wow, that's a nice little ending!

Even a lot of the officers in that war had some sack, like gen. John Cleveland Robinson who dressed like a farmer and quietly led from the front where the bullets were thickest, earned the respect of all of his men slowly. He fought in almost every major battle including Gettysburg but got his leg blown off at Spotsylvania. He served the rest of the war in admin but later made speeches to major applause from hundreds of his veterans. That’s just the one example I remember.

Plus we made up for it by saving Britton and the rest of the world during the world wars and cold war.

David, if you're wanting to 'save' anywhere, it really helps if you learn to spell it's name correctly : )

The successful generals, like Lee and Grant had the advantage of learning from their mistakes by fighting in the Mexican-American War (1848). "An expert is someone who has already made all the mistakes."

Indeed, and what did Lincoln do with it? Nothing.

Unfortunately the main source of evidence for what he did, and often the only source, is the man himself.

Lindybeige Maybe petitioning the Royal Engineers museum in Gillingham for information. If anyone could shed light on his actions, they could (provided it’s not still classified)

Moved an entire city overnight? The RE call that Tuesday.

Great insights

This singular post finally put together a joke that’s been sitting in the back of my head about how to defeat an enemy tank in WW2 that LazerPig told. Thank you it was very confusing beforehand.

Not to discredit your story but night vision was around during the Yom Kipper War, just not in great effect and not in use by those tanks.

Max Jones yeah. Same difference i guess. Also considering all parties involved had shitty equipment. Still impressive :)

Aviram Gottfried false zionist propaganda.

Aviram Gottfried Night vision was invented before Israel was even created.

Getting 11 "kills" for no losses in a single engagement, sounds like the place was pretty well defended, regardless of the actual numbers...

Because we dont want to lower ourselves to the level of American English.

@@foelancer7625 you realize that when people talk about what a ghetto the youtube comments section is they are literally referring to you, personally, right?

@@helldad4689 looks like struck a nerve

@@helldad4689 t'was a joke anyway

Heresy!

NEEEEEERD!!! I specifically searched for this kind of comment, because I thought the ​same thing.

Only if he did it in only one take, regardless of success (Corman's claim to fame until the 1980s, when critics started looking at his films and ignoring the bad acting, lighting, plots, etc.).

Unlikely. The story of Magruder marching men in circles at Yorktown first appears in 1988.

maxsmodels McGruder wasn't the first. For example Peter "Thundershield" Wessel successfully used the trick against Sweden centuries before. This was the same era as Carl XII ruling Sweden!

It seems that the US military likes to learn from tactics once used against them; Sir Isaac Brock did the exact same thing while besieging the US-held Fort Detroit in the War of 1812, half a century earlier...

Forrest fought _against_ the US military and was, by most accounts, illiterate. So it seems unlikely he dug up this particular _ruse de guerre_ by poring over tomes about fighting on the Great Lakes prior to his birth. We make a big noise about studying formalisms of military tactics, but when it comes down to it most capable practitioners seem to rely on an innate cunning and luck.

I mean, technically he was I suppose, but it was a civil war after all, so I'd say both belligerents were fighting in the US military tradition.

Not to belabor abstractions, Forrest had as little military education as any other sort. He had never served a day in uniform prior to the war, and the nearest he'd been to combat was murdering a couple people in personal disputes. He claimed to have killed 30 men in personal combat during the war, and before you laugh you should realize that many of them are documented. He was once shot through the hip during a dispute with a subordinate, whom he murdered on the spot by disemboweling him with his pen knife. He had 29 horses shot from under him during the war, and with the 30 kills he claimed to have "come out a horse ahead". Forrest was not a US soldier; he was a rough beast that crawled out from a darker past. He was quiet and courtly in his non-military interactions, and a quintessence of "southern gallantry", in addition to being a brittle, violent maniac and a poisonous racist. If you can assign him to any military tradition, I'd say he was the last Cavalier.

Assuming that you mean Nathan Bedford Forrest, there were 2 'r's.

Christopher Noel but then how will you know how to make that stunning website with all the proper grammar.

With equilateral equiangular rectangle-space, of course!

harbl99 You mean Round Space?

David Hoffman , space is flat just like the earth

laughs in stealth general from zero hour

Cragified wrong.

Research U.S.A. deception formations. And the very well documented and known things such as Operation Quicksilver and following operations. Here is an example of a 'rubber convoy' made up of inflatable vehicles. cdn.theatlantic.com/static/mt/assets/science/assets_c/2013/05/rubber%20convoy-thumb-570x170-122305.jpg cdn.theatlantic.com/static/mt/assets/science/assets_c/2013/05/tanklift-thumb-570x370-122303.jpg

THAN they did

The US Command put General George Patton in charge of a non existent army after he was sacked for mistreating a shellshocked soldier . This army , based in Britain , used radios to send messages to non existent units . The Germans couldn't believe that the US Army's best field General had been relieved of command for slapping a private . So they believed that his new army was real , and would be the spearpoint of the invasion at Calais . This ruse worked so well that even Patton himself thought he was out of the war . Therefore the German high command mistook the invasion at Normandy as a feint , and kept troops at Calais as a check for the invasion they thought would occur there . It was about three days into the Normandy invasion that the Germans realized their mistake .

IIRC the Soviets did this with some of their (advanced but rare) bombers at some point.

Something like i.makeagif.com/media/8-09-2018/BqA4sy.gif ?

Reckless Roges That's beautiful thank you very much

Just like Mommy used to make them :)

Josh Wright dumbass.

Wut?

It has been now.

What was that for?

I see.

I thought it looked a little darker than usual!

rajesh koothrappali I think the audio seems lower than normal too.

I use both interchangeably, though my mum/mom is American so I have an excuse.

Well, you fill in the blanks when you fill out a form. "Fill out" in this context meaning to pad with material or expand until it fills the container.

SketchesofPayne: That explains why pot holes in my roads are being filled..uh.. out...

Lmao

yes