Page 1 of 2
Happy Minden Day!
Posted: Wed Aug 01, 2018 10:07 pm
by Jeremy
Time to put a rose in your cap
Re: Happy Minden Day!
Posted: Wed Aug 01, 2018 11:56 pm
by grizzlymc
Jolly good, I might give the sartorial bit a miss, here in Sydney it might get me more than a few pricks.
Re: Happy Minden Day!
Posted: Thu Aug 02, 2018 9:07 am
by 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.
Re: Happy Minden Day!
Posted: Thu Aug 02, 2018 9:24 am
by Jeremy
Indeed. Mine acquitted themselves well at Ayton by over-running Simons artillery defenses!
Re: Happy Minden Day!
Posted: Thu Aug 02, 2018 9:46 am
by valleyboy
I actually live in an area in Tauranga called the Minden
Re: Happy Minden Day!
Posted: Thu Aug 02, 2018 10:08 am
by BaronVonWreckedoften
Oh, I thought you'd said you lived in a midden.....
Re: Happy Minden Day!
Posted: Thu Aug 02, 2018 10:14 am
by grizzlymc
The midden of Minden.
Re: Happy Minden Day!
Posted: Thu Aug 02, 2018 12:28 pm
by Purple
Hurrah for the boys of Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel!
Re: Happy Minden Day!
Posted: Thu Aug 02, 2018 8:37 pm
by 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?
Re: Happy Minden Day!
Posted: Thu Aug 02, 2018 8:55 pm
by Count Belisarius
That's only on the first Saturday of the month...