Irony

[Joel S. Berson]

A historian I am reading remarks of a British attack on Louisbourg
(Nova Scotia) during the Seven Year's War that "On D-Day, ironically
June 6, three divisions of invaders made their way toward three
landing beaches ..."

How can a date in 1758 be an "ironic" choice when the date that is
commonly associated with the name "D-Day" was nearly two centuries later?

Joel

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