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To: Tommaso who wrote (295608)10/11/2004 3:32:24 PM
From: Knighty Tin  Read Replies (2) of 436258
 
Napoleon rode in front of his troops just before Waterloo. A British sniper had an easy shot, but The Duke of Wellington wouldn't let him fire. Let's kill off 50,000 grunts, but save the generals. That battle might not have taken place at all if Napoleon had been killed. Before The Battle of Saratoga, one of Daniel Morgan's snipers shot a British Brigadier General. British General Gentleman Jim Burgoyne complained and American General Gates apologized. It was very bad form to shoot a general in those days. Supposedly, American second-in-command General Benedict Arnold sent the sniper a bottle of whisky as a reward, but that may have been a made-up story. Arnold was very popular with the American troops and Gates was considered a rear-echelon ninny.
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