Al Nofi's CIC
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Issue #115, Oct 25, 2003 |
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This Issue...
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Infinite Wisdom
"More than one general has redeemed faulty dispositions and won fame by a suitably glorious death."
La Triviata
- Although abandoned for use by troops in the field as early as 1759, the halberd was not officially abolished by the British Army until 1791.
- When some of the Spanish sailors struggling ashore after the destruction of the Spanish squadron at Santiago on July 3, 1898, were murdered by Cuban troops, Capt. Robley �Fighting Bob� Evans of the battleship Iowa, became so incensed, he sent a detail of Marines ashore to protect the helpless men and informed the local Cubans that they �ceased this infamous work� he would turn his guns on them
- First paid in 1872, pensions for the War of 1812 (1812-1815) continued until 1946, by which time they had totaled $65 million, or about 2/3rds the actual cost of the war, without accounting for inflation.
- During World War I the British discovered that their standard wire cutters, which worked quite nicely on their own barbed wire, was unsuited to cutting the German variety, made from much better steel.
- When the Confederate troops crested Cemetery Ridge on July 3, 1863, at the clmiax of �Pickett�s Charge,� they had to contend not only with fire from the Union troops confronting them, but also temperatures that were apparently about 90� F and humidity approaching 100-percent.
- President James Monroe�s six times great-grandfather and his five times great-grandfather, George Munro and George Munro, Jr., were both killed fighting in the Scottish ranks at the Battle of Pinkie, September 10, 1547.
- During World War II �Victory Gardens� in American cities of 100,000 or more people totalled 7 million acres, about the size of the State of Rhode Island.
- The average strength of each of the 23 infantry battalions in the Honduran Army in 1928 was 93 officers and men.
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