Redcoats versus Redshirts

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Ted
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Post by Ted »

He's talking about in Europe fool.

Where they liberated Spain, and Belgium, and France from Boney.

Not the US, which was theirs, they just didn't have much experience in putting down revolutions.
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Post by Skelron »

Ted wrote:He's talking about in Europe fool.

Where they liberated Spain, and Belgium, and France from Boney.

Not the US, which was theirs, they just didn't have much experience in putting down revolutions.
Aye and Wellington was never in Bloody America. He was the commander of the British Expecitionary Forces sent to Portugal initially. Yes until Waterloo he never faced Napolean, but he did face his Generals, the Generals that had helped Napolean Conquor Europe. And he was out numbered, the French used Conscription, in Britain they didn't. (They might have tricked people into voulnteering, with the idea of taking the Kings coin, and then finding out yo have to pay for almost everything and actually end up owing the army money but hay...) Conscription wasn't introduced in the UK until the First world war.
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