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Rochey wrote:Actualy, I believe that amount of revolutions combined with the uselessness of it's military makes the Cardassians French.

Hey, until the Germans started getting their act together the French had the best army on the continent. Unfortunately for them, 22 miles of oggin means that the British Isles aren't part of the continent.

I was waiting for that.

Rochey wrote:I was waiting for that.

Which? The gearbox dig or the blatant jingoism?

Captain Seafort wrote:
Pfft. The Cardies were a) useful to their allies, and b) didn't run away at the sight of a force half their strength. Until I see evidence about how they build their gearboxes, they're nothing like the Italians.

Point taken, they also don't chuck rocks at landmines.

Which? The gearbox dig or the blatant jingoism?

You correcting me on France. I know well that that was quite true, and only really said that to see your response.

There's an interesting story to be told involving continental military inferiority to the British Isles.

The French army of the early 18th century apparently also realised that the British Isles produced superior soldiers, and so recruited an Irish regiment (helped by some recent upset involving one William of Orange) - the Wild Geese. At the Battle of Malplaquet in 1709, said Irishmen ran into a British Regiment and got thrashed.

What makes this story an interesting historical coincidence was the regiment than defeated them - the 16th Foot, aka the Royal Regiment of Ireland.

Hmm, interesting. Wasn't aware of that particular instance.

Captain Seafort wrote:There's an interesting story to be told involving continental military inferiority to the British Isles.

I'm willing to bet you know every anecdote, story, or apocrypha related to British military superiority over anything and anyone.

I'll also bet it killed you a little to disclose the name of that victorious regiment, didn't it?

Hey that makes the Cardies into the Italians.

How do you figure that.

Mikey wrote:I'll also bet it killed you a little to disclose the name of that victorious regiment, didn't it?

Not at all - the whole reason I posted it was to note the coincidence that on a battlefield involving nearly two hundred thousand men, in a war involving over a million, the two "Royal Irish" regiments should engage each other face-to-face. The small text was simply to hide the fact of that coincidence untill the whole story had been read through