Comments by "Dave Sisson" (@Dave_Sisson) on "Admiral Andrew Cunningham - Boers, Beatty and Bolsheviks (Part 1)" video.

I suspect the Boer War name Drach was struggling with is Colquhoun, which is usually pronounced car-hoon.
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The world was very different back then, people lived differently and had different values. As a writer of popular histories, I keep coming up against people who are outraged that historic characters did not think or act as people do in the 21st century. I find it very frustrating.
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@Drachinifel I think it's a Scottish name. I've also heard it pronounced col-hoon which is slightly closer to the spelling.
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@neilforbes416 You could be more tolerant of diverse people. No doubt you have a hobby or interest that other people would regard as a waste of time? Non religious people like us should remember that most religious people (except for a few Wahabi Moslems and a minority of Pentecostal Christians) do a lot of unpaid charity work to help people down on their luck and ask for nothing in return. So religious people actually make the world a better place. 🙂
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People forget that two years before the Gallipoli campaign it was in the hands of the Bulgarians who conquered it easily. But they gave it back to the Ottomans in a peace treaty after the Second Balkan War.
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