OT: Battle of Hastings

[Joel S. Berson]

At 10/26/2012 01:48 PM, Jonathan Lighter wrote:
>You must be a million years older than I am, because it was always Bunker
>Hill for me.

I won't admit to that, just to being closer.


>Of course, that was in a different colony, er, state.

Province, then Commonwealth.

Joel

>One noted for its
>lying Tories.
>
>JL
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>On Fri, Oct 26, 2012 at 1:05 PM, Joel S. Berson <Berson at att.net> wrote:
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> > At 10/26/2012 08:56 AM, Jonathan Lighter wrote:
> > >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."
> >
> > 9,999 bottles of Guinness on the wall, 9,999 bottle of Guinness. If
> > one of those bottles should happen to fall, 9,998 more casualties to fall.
> >
> >
> > >Equally OT: In my day, Charlie Martel won the battle of "Tours" in the 8th
> > >C.  Nowadays it's the battle of "Poitiers."
> >
> > 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.
> >
> > Joel
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> > >JL
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> > >On Fri, Oct 26, 2012 at 2:17 AM, Wilson Gray <hwgray at gmail.com> wrote:
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> http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/environment/archaeology/9632922/Are-bodies-of-10000-lost-warriors-from-Battle-of-Hastings-buried-in-this-field.html
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