Happy Minden Day!

[Jeremy]

Time to put a rose in your cap

[grizzlymc]

Jolly good, I might give the sartorial bit a miss, here in Sydney it might get me more than a few pricks.

[BaronVonWreckedoften]

Somewhere on You Tube there used to be "The Minden March" by the band of one of the Minden regiments, in which the drummers do the "Minden Yell" at appropriate moments (much as in the Scottish march "Black Bear"). I'll see if I can find it.

And a toast also to the two battalions of the Hanoverian Guards who also took part in the attack and usually get forgotten.

[Jeremy]

Indeed. Mine acquitted themselves well at Ayton by over-running Simons artillery defenses!

[valleyboy]

I actually live in an area in Tauranga called the Minden

[BaronVonWreckedoften]

Oh, I thought you'd said you lived in a midden.....

[grizzlymc]

The midden of Minden.

[Purple]

Hurrah for the boys of Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel!

[BaronVonWreckedoften]

We missed the fact that it was also Yorkshire Day - I mean to say, how did that happen? Was Peeler tied up and gagged?

[Count Belisarius]

That's only on the first Saturday of the month...