BTW the British often appear "quite American" when the subject is Napoleonic wars...
Copenhagen deserved it
BTW the British often appear "quite American" when the subject is Napoleonic wars...
Many years ago I used to be active over on the Battleships vs Battleships board but had to stop posting and lurking there, simply because it damaged my general high respect
Patton and the Use the Roman Roads out of Normandy like Patton did
Slim, at Burma army reunions, referred to the accomplishments of the army as "You did these things." Not I or we. George McDonald Fraser describes Slim pretty well in Quartered Safe Out Here.
Have you read Slim's Biography by Ronald Lewin?
https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=Zqf9LSasekIC&pg=PA1&source=gbs_toc_r&cad=4#v=onepage&q&f=false