Lawerence Of Arabia Versus Roosevelt

Hello. Has anyone ever seen the Deadliest Warrior episode were T.E. Lawerence fought against President Roosevelt (or some American president, cannot really remember who). Read this on the Deadliest Warrior wiki and it said that the president won. Any idea how?
 
Man, I remember that episode...I was pretty pissed off.

First off, let's face it, it's an American show so the odds were stacked in favor of Roosevelt to begin with.

Also, perhaps the biggest flaw of DW is it's reliance on "scientific" tests of the various weapons. Unfortunately, in this episode the individual demonstrating the British weapons was hardly able to use them as effectively as his American counterpart. Furthermore, the tests did not capture the reliability of said weapons as they only test them under optimal field conditions.

As a result both the Krag and the Gatling gun won their respective contests with the SMLE and Vickers respectively when those should've been easy wins for the Brits had the operators been equal.
 
Wasn't Lawerence a self-taught demolitionist, who's motto was more is more? Along with being a excellent shot with a pistol at long range or a rifle?
 

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As a result both the Krag and the Gatling gun won their respective contests with the SMLE and Vickers respectively when those should've been easy wins for the Brits had the operators been equal.

That would be the SMLE that was fast enough and accurate enough that the Germans thought it was machine gun fire?


The fast-operating Lee bolt-action and large magazine capacity enabled a well-trained rifleman to perform the "Mad minute" firing 20 to 30 aimed rounds in 60 seconds, making the Lee-Enfield the fastest military bolt-action rifle of the day. The current world record for aimed bolt-action fire was set in 1914 by a musketry instructor in the British Army—Sergeant Instructor Snoxall—who placed 38 rounds into a 12-inch-wide (300 mm) target at 300 yards (270 m) in one minute. Some straight-pull bolt-action rifles were thought faster, but lacked the simplicity, reliability, and generous magazine capacity of the Lee-Enfield. First World War accounts tell of British troops repelling German attackers who subsequently reported that they had encountered machine guns, when in fact it was simply a group of trained riflemen armed with SMLE Mk III rifles. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lee_Enfield

The Krag's complex design was outclassed by the Spanish Mauser during the Spanish American War, and proved ill-suited for use in tropical locales such as Cuba and the Philippines. Slower to load than Mauser-derived designs, American soldiers found themselves unable to match the volume of fire displayed by the Spanish 1893 Mauser rifle, whose high-velocity 7mm bullet was quickly dubbed the 'Spanish Hornet'. During the American assault on the strategic Cuban city of Santiago, a small force of 750 Spanish troops armed with Model 1893 Mauser rifles defended positions on San Juan and Kettle hills. The attacking force consisted of approximately 6,600 American soldiers, most of them regulars, armed with the then-new smokeless-powder Krag-Jorgensen rifle and supported by artillery and Gatling gun fire. Though the assault was successful, the Americans soon realized that they had suffered more than 1,400 casualties in the assault. A U.S board of investigation concluded that the casualties were primarily due to the superior firepower of the Spanish Model 1893 Mauser rifles. Consequently, the Krag has the dubious distinction of the shortest service life of any standard-issue firearm in US military history (1892–1903).

The Krag was completely phased out of service in the Regular Army by 1907, as M1903 Springfields became available http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Springfield_Model_1892-99
 
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I enjoy the show as a guilty pleasure. In their defense it is an hour show that has a limited amount of time and resources to gather info.

That being said I had picked Lawrence of Arabia from the get go. Though TR had some good military sense, I think he was outclassed in regards to strategy. Since the weapons came out to a tie, I would have thought strategy would have decided it, but they picked TR.

But I also had issue with their decision in George Washington vs Napoleon.
 
Regardless of blatant advantages that Lawrence had, or of any bias or incompetence on the part of the show, let us not forget that Theodore Roosevelt was a gigantic badass.
 
I enjoy the show as a guilty pleasure. In their defense it is an hour show that has a limited amount of time and resources to gather info.

That being said I had picked Lawrence of Arabia from the get go. Though TR had some good military sense, I think he was outclassed in regards to strategy. Since the weapons came out to a tie, I would have thought strategy would have decided it, but they picked TR.

But I also had issue with their decision in George Washington vs Napoleon.

Yeah there was no way Washington should have one that one. I mean sure if their on a one on one basis then Washington could kick his ass, but in a battle Napoleon is clearly the victor.
 
Regardless of blatant advantages that Lawrence had, or of any bias or incompetence on the part of the show, let us not forget that Theodore Roosevelt was a gigantic badass.

Badass he may be but Lawrence was pretty much his equal on that score.


Yeah there was no way Washington should have one that one. I mean sure if their on a one on one basis then Washington could kick his ass, but in a battle Napoleon is clearly the victor.
I'm pretty sure it was a brawl, in which case Washington wins simply because he has a massive height advantage and was just generally a tough dude.
 
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