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Tuesday, April 17, 2018
Today's Unfortunate Anniversary
Battle of Culloden, 1746
Charles Stuart, better known as Bonnie Prince Charlie, probably would have been a more inspiring figure if English, rather than French, had been his primary language. Also, my old infantry instructor would have described the deployment pictured above as "Non-operational; in other words, fouchez".