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That's a new take on intervention.

Today we're refighting the Battle of Salamanca in 15mm, with AB Figures and Napoleon's Battles 4th Edition rules: http://www.jemimafawr.co.uk/2018/08/01/ ... july-1812/

That will. do!

Now, what was he eating when he said that.

grizzlymc wrote: ↑Wed Aug 01, 2018 1:46 pm That will. do!

Now, what was he eating when he said that.

'Twas a chicken-leg (that he threw over his shoulder).

General Alava, his excellent Spanish liaison officer, mentioned in his memoir that Wellington had virtually no interest in food and that the question 'What would you likefor lunch?' was invariably met with 'Cold meat'. Alava joked that his experience with Wellington left him with a lifelong fear of the phrases 'cold meat' and 'at dawn'.

But another writer (and I forget who) assures us that it was a lamb bone.

Naturally. What's a discussion about Napoleonic minutiae without an argument...?

Argument! It has to descend into handbaggery at two paces with a complete exposee of the other party's disgusting personal habits and the mandatory chorus of the "Boney was a god and I want to have his baby" crowd.

How do I know such a thing by the way. My father, whose wellingtonics library amounts to a quarter of my books, noticed the discrepancy and the hunted through every first person account of nosey's staff to find corroboratory evidence one way or another. Sadly, he never established a knockout score for either chicken or lamb.

We were in Angola this week, where I received possibly the most comprehensive spanking I have ever received in a wargame... :o

http://www.jemimafawr.co.uk/2018/08/12/ ... gola-1986/

Very nice. Are those the Timecast huts? They travel well!