OT: Battle of Hastings

[Jonathan Lighter]

Modern estimates place the size of each army at 10,000 or less.

So even allowing for some numerical  imprecision, "10,000 casualties" must
be the result of somebody thinking, once again, that "casualty" means
"fatality."

Equally OT: In my day, Charlie Martel won the battle of "Tours" in the 8th
C.  Nowadays it's the battle of "Poitiers."

JL

On Fri, Oct 26, 2012 at 2:17 AM, Wilson Gray <hwgray at gmail.com> wrote:

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