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To: average joe who wrote (1119)	5/17/2001 2:25:04 AM
From: Yaacov	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 23908

Joe, the Gurkhas are foot soldiers! Even today around the Buckingham Palace you see them smartly marching on foot! The took part in the final Battle for Falkland, sneaked into enemy lines and slid a few throat! As for Cossack Horses, in Early 1800's, before India became a crown colony, Companies officers used to sneak along the Northwest Frontiers, cross the Hindu-kush Range into Pamir Chinese Turkistan, and Central Asia in search of Badakhshan horses. Have you ever heard of the word Great Game (Bolshoi Igra in Russian?) This is where it all started! These were brave people who knew what was expecting them if caught, used to dress as Moslems and dye their skin to pass un-noticed! William Moorcroft was the first one who attempted to do so in 1820. "Econe, Switzerland and was run by a renegade Frenchman called Archbishop Marcel " Ecogne is in Alpine Swiss Canton of Vallais.A small village hanging of a side of the mountains! I happen to have a small cottage in Crans-sur-Sierre, only few miles away and pass the village often on my way to Sion in the Valley!I know that the cultivate Fandon (local white wine) but I didn't know there was such a school there. Will look it up. Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre was ex-communicated but after his death his movment still attracts some people, most from the very upper-class in France and Switzerland!!! Any followers in Canada?