OT: Battle of Hastings

Joel S. Berson Berson at ATT.NET
Sat Oct 27 03:34:13 UTC 2012


At 10/26/2012 01:05 PM, Joel S. Berson wrote:
>In my day, the Patriots fought the battle of Breed's Hill in the 17th
>century, in which the Tories suffered many "casualties".  Nowadays
>it's the Battle of Bunker Hill.

18th, of course.  A Fingerfehler -- or at least that's my excuse.

Joel

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