Comments by "Geordiedog" (@geordiedog1749) on "The History Chap" channel.

  1. Terrible, chauvinistic nonsense. Alas, it did make me literally - not figuratively - LOL.
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  2. I’m in a union and I don’t see any rewards?
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  3. Topic suggestion: Operation Pedestal?
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  4. If it wasn’t for Crete we’d have possibly lost Malta. Their paras got so badly chopped up that further airborne mass attacks were discouraged. Thus knackering Operation Herkules.
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  5. They will have called their bayonets “swords”, I think.
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  6. Such a shame we (U.K.) couldn’t have just said “slavery bad etc…..”
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  7. In one of the Aubrey - Maturin books Stephen Maturin comes across two Irish children in a North African market who he buys to free them. As the books were historically very accurate I believed it to be factually based - which it was of course. The two Irish children were taken from off the coast of Cork.
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  8. Much maligned weapon the PIAT. Also, not a rocket launcher. A spigot mortar technically.
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  9. Not true. At all. History is taught far better now than when I was a bairn. What’s your evidence?
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  10. That made me lol - literally not figuratively.
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  11. Oh no…… you said the thing. Oh dear.
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  12. Very interesting and well presented. White slavers is interesting because it is the exception, though. The number of black African slaves utterly dwarfs the number of Europeans slaves. Just sayin’
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  13. Interesting.
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  14. Interesting!
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