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The fact that Saul went himself on an expedition to hunt down David, rather than sending lackeys to do it in his absence, makes even Saul a hundred times more honourable than any modern politician.
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British aristocrats suffered a 20% death rate in World War I, shedding blood on a scale and at a rate not seen since the Wars of the Roses
The British state repaid that sacrifice by confiscating their estates through ruinous death and income taxes, wiping away the upper class as a politically important force
The wages of that are Britain's dismal present
The centuries that saw it governed by a martial aristocracy saw it rise to the peak of Olympus as the mightiest, most prosperous, and most flourishing civilization
The century that has seen it ruled by "democracy" has seen it go from a glorious empire to a wretched, poor little island that is increasingly full of Pakistanis and Africans
Rioting and revolt are justified as a nuclear option, to maintain peace in a country through mutually assured destruction.
The tripling of tuition fees in contravention of the Lib Dems' campaign pledge in 2010 would not have been conceivable in France.
France just had a suspiciously timed terrorist attack.
My reaction being "golly, I know Macron is desperate but I just cannot bring myself to believe he'd be that desperate".
A trade union representing broadcasters wants the team of France's 8 o'clock news gone because the union supports Mélenchon's party and they're worried it'll be bad publicity for him electorally.
In other words, those who do this don't like it when the tables are turned.
The Met Police should not have the P.R. policy of the royal family. Stories like this make the police look like they have something to hide when they cause a scene and then refuse to explain themselves after the fact.
This got me thinking. I can't really imagine continental-style rioting here.
And the reason is because on the mainland, public disorder is often in the form of a mob attacking the infrastructure, the police or third parties who don't care to get involved.
🚨 Heads up UK.
They’re calling students and workers to Trafalgar Square on Friday 20 November.
“Strike Against War.”
“Youth Strike.”
Same crowd that turns every protest into a blockade.
France was the beginning.
Buildings burned. Town halls torched. Streets shut down.
Milan has started.
Britain is next.
They’ll march under the banner of peace while the same groups that smash windows and block roads turn up with them.
We see it coming.
They won’t get a free run here.
Enough. 🫡🏴
Por lo tanto, muertes de combatientes causadas directamente por la lucha fueron superadas en número por muertes civiles causadas como daño colateral.
Tuvo que haber sido muy desesperante por el estado llano, que política pasabale a ellos y estaban impotentes para hacer algo.
One of the helpful effects of democracy is in setting a maximum acceptable degree of state violence.
An autocratic régime is able to get away with using live ammunition to suppress dissent or even poison gas with no consequences.
Carnot Barracks seems pretty fond of Sevran and Sartrouville. They've been twice to both banlieues.
Or maybe it's Carnot on Sevran, and somebody else on Sartrouville whom I don't know about. #PoliceHorseSpotting
La brigade équestre de nouveau mobilisée devant le lycée Evariste Galois ce matin à Sartrouville.
#BlocusLycées #BlocusUniversités #8octobre
More evidence of French rioting being mediæval in origin.
Since most deaths in the Hundred Years' War weren't of military personnel, the great frustration that this would've inevitably caused sometimes made the Third Estate take matters into their own hands.
When a garrison is occupying a city that does not support it in medieval times, the mistake has very often been made of leaving only a small detachment of soldiers behind while the rest of the garrison goes out to forage in the countryside.
April 1430, Melun. An island fortress in the Seine that took Henry V four and a half months and more than 8,000 men to starve out in 1420. Its governor was now the burgundian Jean de Luxembourg, and his lieutenant Dreux de Humières who hold the castle. Then supplies ran out. The garrison sent almost every able-bodied man on a raid into the Gâtinais region, leaving only a handful of English soldiers in the city. News of Charles VII's approach was already spreading.
The townspeople rose up when the garison left, seized the gates and sent messengers to nearby royal French commanders. Their troops rushed in and surrounded the castle, where the English in state of great panic fled and had taken refuge.
When the burgundian garrison returned to the Bierre gate after foraging across the countryside, no drawbridge came down. A hail of arrows met them, and a fleur-de-lis banner flew over the walls was displayed. They turned back toward Corbeil town, still held by English.
Joan of Arc and her troops arriving from Sully-sur-Loire joined Melun and could pass over the Seine river few days after.
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Do I detect the creeping hand of Martyn’s Law?
(Remember, the terrorists will never win and Islamism won’t change our way of life in diverse, cosmopolitan, multicultural, modern Britain!)
Heartbreak as ‘beautiful’ UK Christmas market with hundreds of stalls is axed after a decade
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Job 39:19-25, written around the 5th-6th century BC, marvels at how uncannily suited God made the horse is for war, and that was with only 2,500 years of selective breeding.
After double that time, the horse has been bred so much for war that I cannot imagine war without it.
Could the war horse be making a return?🐎
The British Army are exploring how Military Working Horses could contribute to future operations
But, in the modern drone-led, electronic warfare era what use is a war horse, and is it better left in the past🔗forcesnews.com/services/army…
Livestream from Place Vauban now is showing the weaknesses in the C.R.S.'s all-on-foot strategy of line, sortie, area denial, reteat, repeat. Taking a semi-circular square means spreading their line thinly. Could do with cavalry support in this terrain.
youtube.com/live/b6wiFPuxkR0…
People say that the French rioting tradition goes back to 1789. Actually, it's a lot older than that. I would put the start as the Hundred Years' War.
Armies in the 14th century weren't large; they numbered in the thousands, so only a small part of the population actually... 1/7
Thus, whichever side controlled Paris had trouble keeping prisoners of war in the Châtelet, because the Parisians were determined to break in &/or set fire to it in order to kill them.
The nobles wanted them punished with a hefty ransom, while the civilians wanted them dead. 6/7