re: British special forces runs out of ammo, surrounded by ISIS, defeats them

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Usually, if it's dubious or proven false, so many sites don't pick it up.

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Come on, man. You posted a bunch of links to tabloid "sources" for one thing.

Great report if true....my curiosity however has me wondering if the bad guys were also out of bullets and/or the Brits had some hand grenades in their belts??

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Must have studied the Battle of Rorke' s Drift.

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Rorke's Drift was the ammo dump for the Brit columns moving into Zulu land. They had plenty of ammo which is why they didn't get overrun.

They did get overrun, and the Zulus didn't run out of ammo either.

And it was 3500 vs. 150.

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So they're all "tabloids?"

I must have missed your infallible citations.

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Are you just willingly being obtuse? If so, why?

The initial source is a fricking tabloid. Perhaps the only one of your sources that isn't, is The Washington Times.

And what fricking possible reason would I have to be compelled to provide a source to you? To discredit a report in a tabloid? Do you realize how asinine that is?

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The story goes that the unit had managed to shoot over 20 ISIS turds dead before running out of ammo. Still surrounded by hordes of ISIS fighters, the British special forces operators decided to go out fighting by taking out as many turds as possible.

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I remember when Jessica Lynch was a hero too.

Skeptical dog is very Skeptical.

eta. If true, IMO it speaks volumes for the unit being unprepared for their mission.

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They did get overrun, and the Zulus didn't run out of ammo either.

And it was 3500 vs. 150.

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You appear seriously confused. At Isandlwana, the Brits were overrun. At Rorke's Drift they were not.

Battle of Isandlwana

The Battle of Isandlwana (alternative spelling: Isandhlwana) on 22 January 1879 was the first major encounter in the Anglo–Zulu War between the British Empire and the Zulu Kingdom. Eleven days after the British commenced their invasion of Zululand in South Africa, a Zulu force of some 20,000 warriors attacked a portion of the British main column consisting of about 1,800 British, colonial and native troops and perhaps 400 civilians.[13] The Zulus were equipped mainly with the traditional assegai iron spears and cow-hide shields,[14] but also had a number of muskets and old rifles[15] though they were not formally trained in their use.[16] The British and colonial troops were armed with the state-of-the-art[17] Martini-Henry breech-loading rifle and two 7-pounder (3-inch, 76 mm) mountain guns deployed as field guns,[18][19] as well as a Hale rocket battery. Despite a vast disadvantage in weapons technology,[20] the numerically superior Zulus ultimately overwhelmed the poorly led and badly deployed[21] British, killing over 1,300 troops, including all those out on the forward firing line. The Zulu army suffered around a thousand killed.[22]"

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At Rorke's Drift an Impi of between 3-4,000 Zulus fell on about 150 Brits but the Brits repelled them.

"He's a Peeler, 7-1-2, come to arrest the Zulus!"

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I remember when Jessica Lynch was a hero too.

Skeptical dog is very Skeptical.

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But blueboy read all about it in The Daily Star! Do you have a credible source that shows that tabloid report to be false?

We have the best allies don't we folks?

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Chard realised that the north wall, under near constant Zulu attack, could not be held. At 6:00 pm, he pulled his men back into the yard, abandoning the front two rooms of the hospital in the process. The hospital was becoming untenable; as the loopholes had become a liability: rifles poking out were grabbed at by the Zulus, yet if the holes were left empty, the Zulu warriors stuck their own weapons through in order to fire into the rooms. Among the soldiers assigned to the hospital were Corporal William Wilson Allen and Privates Cole, Dunbar, Hitch, Horrigan, John Williams, Joseph Williams, Alfred Henry Hook, Robert Jones, and William Jones.

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