The War of 1812!

[GUBU]

Someone has obviously never never bothered to do past life regression. Give it a whirl! I bet you're somebody famous.

Lack of PTSD bothering you? Meet with a specialist. Only a few sessions are needed, and you'll be quivering at the sound of musket fire in no time!

I bet I was royalty. Nobody was a groveling peasant in Past Life Regression.

I was a peasant. But then I lead a rebellion and became Emperor of China.

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Well then, he's been blowing himself out of his own arse this whole time.

[I_am_not_mafia]

Fucking bagpipes.

It pains me to see highlanders wear red. They should be fighting the soldiers dressed in red. Instead their country was sold by politicians for English gold, and the soldiers used as cannon fodder to extend its empire.

They were rather good at it though. I have a book on Scottish martial arts which tells how native Americans complained how the white men wearing skirts didn't just stand there and get killed like all the others. That's what happens when you have a martial history of fighting superior numbers and a culture of using guerilla warfare instead.

The bagpipes are a form of psychological warfare. Take Bill Millin for example.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Millin

Pipers had traditionally been used in battle by Scottish and Irish soldiers.[5] However, the use of bagpipes was restricted to rear areas by the time of the Second World War by the British Army. Lovat, nevertheless, ignored these orders and ordered Millin, then aged 21, to play. When Private Millin demurred, citing the regulations, he recalled later, Lord Lovat replied: "Ah, but that’s the English War Office. You and I are both Scottish, and that doesn’t apply." He played "Highland Laddie" "The Road to the Isles" and "All the blue bonnets are over the border" as his comrades fell around him on Sword.[1] Millin states that he later talked to captured German snipers who claimed they did not shoot at him because they thought he had gone mad.[6]

he was armed only with his pipes and the sgian-dubh, or "black knife", sheathed inside his kilt-hose on the right side.[2] In keeping with Scottish tradition, he wore no underwear beneath the kilt. He later told author Peter Caddick-Adams that the coldness of the water took his breath away.[7]

Lovat and Millin advanced from Sword to Pegasus Bridge, which had been defiantly defended by men of the 2nd Bn the Ox & Bucks Light Infantry (6th Airborne Division) who had landed in the early hours by glider. Lovat's commandos arrived at a little past one p.m. at Pegasus Bridge although the rendezvous time in the plan was noon. To the sound of Millin's bagpipes, the commandos marched across Pegasus Bridge. During the march, twelve men died, most shot through their berets.[8]

[Amarok]

We won 

[Anomalocaris]

We won 

If having one’s capital sacked and burnt constitutes a win.

Napoleon’s escape from Elba may have done more to prevent our greater defeat than anything of our heroics and genius.

[Minimalist]

Except the Treaty of Ghent was signed several months before Napoleon left Elba.

In fact, after Napoleon's abdication a considerable number of Wellington's Peninsula Army was sent to North America.  In the customary British fuck-up fashion they were divided into a number of different forces and sent to points so scattered that they could not support each other.  They failed miserably on Lake Champlain.  Captured a couple of towns in Maine.  Did burn Washington before being defeated in a land attack on Baltimore and failed to batter Fort McHenry into submission.  The 4th column was Pakenham's.

The diversions from Wellington's army most likely account for the makeup of his army at Waterloo.  About 35% were British with the rest being Dutch-Belgian, Brunswickers, Hanoverians, and the Kings German Legion.  Luckily for Wellington Marshal Grouchy fucked up after Ligny which enabled Blucher to save his ass.

[ignoramus]

I love hearing Min talk!
When he talks, I listen.

If he says Jesus is bullshit, who am I to argue

[Minimalist]

Jesus is epic mythic bullshit.

[Anomalocaris]

Jesus is epic mythic bullshit.

I expect more out of an epic.

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Except the Treaty of Ghent was signed several months before Napoleon left Elba.

In fact, after Napoleon's abdication a considerable number of Wellington's Peninsula Army was sent to North America.  In the customary British fuck-up fashion they were divided into a number of different forces and sent to points so scattered that they could not support each other.  They failed miserably on Lake Champlain.  Captured a couple of towns in Maine.  Did burn Washington before being defeated in a land attack on Baltimore and failed to batter Fort McHenry into submission.  The 4th column was Pakenham's.

The diversions from Wellington's army most likely account for the makeup of his army at Waterloo.  About 35% were British with the rest being Dutch-Belgian, Brunswickers, Hanoverians, and the Kings German Legion.  Luckily for Wellington Marshal Grouchy fucked up after Ligny which enabled Blucher to save his ass.

British successes in muddling through to world power gives heart to the mediocre and lacksidasical everywhere.

[Minimalist]

They had a secret weapon.

[CapnAwesome]

Interesting fact.

The War was over when the Battle of New Orleans was fought.  A lot of Brits died for absofuckinglutely nothing.

Everyone who died in that war died for nothing