re: What is the one battle in history you most would like to have fought in?

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Bastogne.

Cold as frick, but that stand was legendary. And the cameraderie among the men who fought there was something special.

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Every winter when it is really cold, rare in NOLA, when I am getting into bed with my wife, I honestly think of the survivor's quote at the end of the episode.

"I'm glad I'm here in bed with you and not at Bastogne."

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With the Spartans at Thermopylae against the Persians. They lost the battle, but they are forever immortalized in history.

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If you want to die in defeat and be immortalized, chose the Alamo. That way they atleast know your name.

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One battle that I don't believe has been mentioned is Gallipoli Campaign, the casualty rates were horrific

Turks had 315,000 troops at the battle, they incurred 250,268 casualties and they won.

Their German allies lost 527 of their 700 troops.

Australia had 50,000 troops at the battle, with over 26,000 casualties.

French had 79,000 troops, with 47,169 casualties.

The British had 345,000 troops, with 250,790 casualtie

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2 songs before and after-


Waltzing Matila (before)

The Poges- The Band played Waltzing Matila (after)

How well I remember that terrible day When the blood stained the sand and the water And how in that hell that they called suvla bay.
We were butchered like lambs at the slaughter Johnny Turk he was ready, he primed himself well.

He showered us with bullets, he rained us with Shells And in five minutes flat he'd blown us all to hell Nearly blew us right back to Australia

But the band played waltzing Matilda As we stopped to bury our slain And we buried ours and the Turks buried theirs Then it started all over again

Now those who were living did their best to survive
In that mad world of blood, death and fire
And for seven long weeks I kept myself alive
While the corpses around me piled higher
Then a big Turkish shell knocked me arse over tit

And when I woke up in my hospital bed
And saw what it had done, Christ I wished I was Dead

Never knew there were worse things than dying
And no more I'll go waltzing Matilda

Get stuck with general custer lol

Suicide in the Trenches by Siegfried Sassoon.

You smug-faced crowds with kindling eye
Who cheer when soldier lads march by,
Sneak home and pray you'll never know
The hell where youth and laughter go.



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With the Spartans at Thermopylae against the Persians. They lost the battle, but they are forever immortalized in history

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This! Plus, Something about being on deaths ground, standing shoulder to shoulder with your brothers vastly outnumbered by the enemy just appeals to me

cowboys vs. indians...

Desert Storm

Verdun

Least - 2nd Battle of Ypres WWI

Most Yorktown Revolution