OT: Battle of Hastings

[Joel S. Berson]

At 10/29/2012 10:55 AM, Mullins, Bill AMRDEC wrote:
>Classification: UNCLASSIFIED
>Caveats: NONE
>
> >
> > And that "10,000" is a problem for me, too. That's a *lot* of men to
> > waste on a single battle on a single day in 1066. That approximates
>the
> > size of a modern U.S. Army division minus its support troops. How
>could
> > they have come up with such a huge number of fighters?
>
>Harold sent out word that there would be free beer??

Guinness, no doubt.  And placed on the castle walls.

Joel

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