Comments by "FiveLiver" (@FiveLiver) on "The Armchair Historian" channel.

  1. In England a standing army was feared after Cromwell, so kept to a minimum.
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  2. The British Army was on form in the Napoleonic War - you not seen Sharpe? You are thinking of the French Revolutionary Wars beforehand.
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  3. No one's heard of it
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  4. Write that again in English
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  5. This video was badly named; it sounds like which was the finest of the 18thc army, and people are responding to that instead of the actual content. It should have been titled 'who gave the British Army get an unwarranted reputation'?
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  6. When have Italians beaten the British Army?
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  7. try again
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  8. They didn't have far to go Poland and back..
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  9. stupid comments
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  10. Let's just give thanks that the Corsican upstart came to the end of his life-squandering career.
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  11. they got the reputation from American colonists bragging about their prowess in defeating a superpower.
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  12. what he says at the start - nobody in Britain talks about the British army being the finest in the 18thc - just that when it was vital to win they did. America wasn't an important war - the West indies was far a more valuable possession.
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