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THE THREAD!!! - 7/2/2010 4:26:04 PM   
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ORIGINAL: Nikademus

Thats what we tell people. It helps keep the Californians away.



i think thats the goal of everywhere in the us. unfortunatly some of them are finding their way to dallas. but we have guns to scare them away.

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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 7/2/2010 4:26:27 PM   
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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 7/2/2010 4:28:34 PM   
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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 7/2/2010 4:37:31 PM   
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Just in case you didn't know



ouch.



Saw that picture reacently in Cornwall's "Battle of France: then and now."


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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 7/2/2010 4:41:17 PM   
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Just in case you didn't know


Thanks, Simon. I didn't know.

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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 7/2/2010 4:50:14 PM   
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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 7/2/2010 4:56:40 PM   
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Tithe!!!!!

Hey Bruce, I trust all is well with you.

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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 7/2/2010 4:57:03 PM   
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Status: offline 		In other news British.....i started Jon Lattimer's "1812: War with America" this week. Have for some time wanted to study up on this conflict. I'm not normally too inclined to study pre-industrial conflicts (at least in my adult life.....as a teen i had a brief Civil War flirtation)....but this conflict always interested me in the same way that Korea did....because its mostly a forgotten and understudied war. The book is very interesting so far. Given the typical American sensitivity whenever a foreign author tackles a subject involving americans....there's been some accusations of "bias" but so far i'm not seeing it. The criticisms the author does offer in the direction of America echo the problems it has faced at the beginning of other conflicts.....particularily Korea. Truth hurts.

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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 7/2/2010 5:01:03 PM   
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Status: offline 		Another book that works well for the War of 1812 is Six Frigates. I forget the authors name. I will look at the book later and add the author's name to this post.

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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 7/2/2010 5:03:16 PM   
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Seven weeks vacation starting now tithe.

Hey Grollub,

Read a news blurb in the WSJ this morning. Indicated that Sweden just dropped compulsory military service. Will this affect you and your training efforts at all?

Currently unknown but unlikely. We'll still need officer training.

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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 7/2/2010 5:06:40 PM   
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Another book that works well for the War of 1812 is Six Frigates. I forget the authors name. I will look at the book later and add the author's name to this post.


This one?

Six Frigates: The Epic History of the Founding of the U.S. Navy (by Ian Toll)



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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 7/2/2010 5:19:27 PM   
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Status: offline 		Brazil loses to the Netherlands...bit of a shock, I suppose. The U.S. sports talking heads painted the Brazilians as unbeatable, with no discernable flaws. Well, flaw exsposed!

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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 7/2/2010 5:33:55 PM   
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Another book that works well for the War of 1812 is Six Frigates. I forget the authors name. I will look at the book later and add the author's name to this post.


lol...just read some reviews on Pierre Berton's Invasion of Canada 1812-13. I actually picked up this book last year at a used book store but never got around to reading it since it didn't cover the entire conflict. Based on the reviews however, i should probably do so after finishing Lattimer.

There's another irony to reading on this subject after so long. Back in the 90's when i was a regular member of warships1.com, the BBvsBB forum (it's most active and popular...with many subjects ranging far behind the title of the forum), American "patriots" on the board used to sneer at any scenario 18-19th century wise that depicted any possible conflict with Britian, always ending up with comments like. "yeah...we'd walk into Canada......" Apparantly none ever actually bothered to study the conflict and instead based their argument on raw population statistics and a displacement of modern American industrial might into the past.




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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 7/2/2010 5:59:24 PM   
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Status: offline 		I am gearing up to read Terry Copp's two books on the Canadian Army in Normandy over the next week, when I'll be on vacation in northern Michigan. Not sure how much time I'll have, though, as I'm also going to pop the question to my girlfriend.

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log! - 7/2/2010 6:03:35 PM   
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Not sure how much time I'll have, though, as I'm also going to pop the question to my girlfriend.


your going to ask her if you can buy another history book off Amazon?


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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 7/2/2010 6:05:19 PM   
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SLR.

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RE: log! - 7/2/2010 6:41:15 PM   
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Not sure how much time I'll have, though, as I'm also going to pop the question to my girlfriend.


your going to ask her if you can buy another history book off Amazon?



That would be a fatal folly, as her mother runs an independent bookstore.

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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 7/2/2010 6:51:37 PM   
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Edit: Doh! SLR

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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 7/2/2010 7:02:44 PM   
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Good day!


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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 7/2/2010 7:05:01 PM   
Apollo11


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Just in case you didn't know


Didn't know of that...

You guys? Did you know about Lancastria?


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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 7/2/2010 7:06:46 PM   
Apollo11


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Thread, it's a SCORCHER today...


How hot it is Kristian?

We here have a week of above +30 - +35 degrees Centigrade... very very hot...


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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 7/2/2010 7:09:34 PM   
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Status: offline 		Just wondering if anyone here may have time to help out with a potential small scenario for AE.  I'm considering putting together something based around the third arakan campaign, not sure on much more than that at the moment.  I'm hoping to have a lot of leave approved soon so I'll have some free time to muck about with this kind of stuff.

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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 7/2/2010 8:43:10 PM   
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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 7/2/2010 8:44:22 PM   
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Just wondering if anyone here may have time to help out with a potential small scenario for AE.  I'm considering putting together something based around the third arakan campaign, not sure on much more than that at the moment.  I'm hoping to have a lot of leave approved soon so I'll have some free time to muck about with this kind of stuff.


What would you need, Martin?

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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 7/2/2010 9:20:16 PM   
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Just wondering if anyone here may have time to help out with a potential small scenario for AE.  I'm considering putting together something based around the third arakan campaign, not sure on much more than that at the moment.  I'm hoping to have a lot of leave approved soon so I'll have some free time to muck about with this kind of stuff.


I'll help where I can

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LOG! - 7/2/2010 9:22:59 PM   
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I think it's time to call it a week and start enjoying my 3 day weekend.  


one hour to go for me. I'm hoping to be able to spend some "Quality Time" with my signifigant other..........

a Brand new LG 24" LCD widescreen. ooooo baby.



After a bunch of research and one false start.....i've finally joined the Dark side and retired my nearly 10 year old 19" Sony CRT which was starting to show it's age (besides the fact that it was a butt ugly and big white slab of white plastic and metal on my otherwise modern looking computer setup)

WitPAE in 1920 x 1080 wide is impressive looking.



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RE: LOG! - 7/2/2010 9:49:48 PM   
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Heya Dixie if I can I would be happy to contribute.

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THE THREAD!!! - 7/2/2010 9:50:20 PM   
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Tithe

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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 7/2/2010 10:04:55 PM   
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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 7/2/2010 10:48:37 PM   
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