Author Topic: Britains greatest foe (Read 2451 times)

John Grace · « **on:** March 31, 2012, 02:27:52 PM »

Michael Collins, who was inspired by 'The Napoleon Of Notting Hill' (G.K. Chesterton) came 2nd.

http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/ireland/2012/0320/1224313581655.html

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OLIVIA KELLEHER

Michael Collins is running second in a poll being conducted by London’s National Army Museum to establish Britain’s greatest foe.

Collins, who will be 90 years dead next August, has more than 800 votes while nearly 1,400 votes have been cast for frontrunner Mustafa Kemal Atatürk. Atatürk repelled the Allied invasion at the Dardanelles in 1915.

West-Cork born Collins is followed in the top five by Erwin Rommel, Napoleon Bonaparte and George Washington.

Collins introduced the “flying columns” – volunteers who waged a guerrilla campaign on barracks and police stations and ambushed convoys before quickly withdrawing. For over two years he ran an intelligence system that infiltrated British military and police authorities in Dublin.

Other names on the list include the German Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck who fought a four-year campaign against the British in East Africa and Maurice de Saxe who outfoxed British and Allied armies during wars of succession in 18th-century Europe.

The top five military leaders in the poll will be represented by five historians who will speak at an event in the National Army Museum on April 14th. In assembling the shortlist the museum’s main criterion was that each commander must have led a force against the British in battle. Voting continues until March 30th, on nam.ac.uk

Busillis · « **Reply #1 on:** April 22, 2012, 08:16:14 PM »

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Other names on the list include the German Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck who fought a four-year campaign against the British in East Africa

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Paul Emil von Lettow-Vorbeck (20 March 1870 – 9 March 1964) was a general in the Imperial German Army and the commander of its forces in the German East Africa campaign. For four years, with a force that never exceeded about 14,000 (3,000 Germans and 11,000 Africans), he held in check a much larger force of 300,000 British, Belgian, and Portuguese troops. Essentially undefeated in the field, von Lettow-Vorbeck was the only German commander to successfully invade imperial British soil during World War I. His exploits in the campaign have come down "as the greatest single guerrilla operation in history, and the most successful."

His picture on Wikipedia shows a man with an impish disposition, which is what I would expect from someone gifted at guerrilla warfare.

I wonder how many nonwhites were allied with Hitler's Germany. Seems like a sizable number.

JohnChrysostom · « **Reply #2 on:** April 22, 2012, 10:07:32 PM »

Army paper says IRA Not defeated

BBC News July 6, 2007
An Internal British Army docuмent examining 37 years of deployment in Northern Ireland contains the claim by one expert that it Failed to defeat the IRA.
It describes the IRA as "a Professional, Dedicated, highly skilled and resilient force", While loyalist paramilitaries are described as "Little more than a collection of gangsters".
It concedes for the first time that it did Not win the battle against the IRA."

More Irish sold as slaves to the US colonies & plantations from 1651 to 1660 than the total existing free population of the Americas!
1641-1652, 550,000 Irish were killed by the English & 300,000 were sold as Slaves, Irish population of Ireland fell from 1,466,000 to 616,000.
1649 Cromwell landed in Ireland,slaughtering 30,000 Irish. 25,000 were sold to planters in St. Kitt
100,000 Irish children, 10-14 years old, taken from parents & sold as slaves in the West Indies, Va & N. England.

Irish Catholics were Forbidden to Receive Education, Enter a Profession, Hold Public office, Engage in a Trade,Own land,Lease land,Accept a mortgage on land, Vote, Keep Arms, Practice Law,Forbidden to buy land from a Protestant, inherit land from a Prot.
He could not attend Catholic Mass,Or educate his child.
300,000 Catholics sold as SLAVES-Proclamation 1625
Millions Genocided-Potato Famine, Food taken @Gunnpoint by Thug Soldiers working for Englands Zionists Govt

John Grace · « **Reply #3 on:** April 23, 2012, 10:44:13 AM »

Quote from: JohnChrysostom

Army paper says IRA Not defeated

BBC News July 6, 2007
An Internal British Army docuмent examining 37 years of deployment in Northern Ireland contains the claim by one expert that it Failed to defeat the IRA.
It describes the IRA as "a Professional, Dedicated, highly skilled and resilient force", While loyalist paramilitaries are described as "Little more than a collection of gangsters".
It concedes for the first time that it did Not win the battle against the IRA."

More Irish sold as slaves to the US colonies & plantations from 1651 to 1660 than the total existing free population of the Americas!
1641-1652, 550,000 Irish were killed by the English & 300,000 were sold as Slaves, Irish population of Ireland fell from 1,466,000 to 616,000.
1649 Cromwell landed in Ireland,slaughtering 30,000 Irish. 25,000 were sold to planters in St. Kitt
100,000 Irish children, 10-14 years old, taken from parents & sold as slaves in the West Indies, Va & N. England.

Irish Catholics were Forbidden to Receive Education, Enter a Profession, Hold Public office, Engage in a Trade,Own land,Lease land,Accept a mortgage on land, Vote, Keep Arms, Practice Law,Forbidden to buy land from a Protestant, inherit land from a Prot.
He could not attend Catholic Mass,Or educate his child.
300,000 Catholics sold as SLAVES-Proclamation 1625
Millions Genocided-Potato Famine, Food taken @Gunnpoint by Thug Soldiers working for Englands Zionists Govt

To Hell or Barbados: The Ethnic Cleansing of Ireland
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0863222870/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=0863222870&linkCode=as2&tag=httpwwwchanco-20

Traditional Guy 20 · « **Reply #4 on:** May 09, 2012, 01:29:09 AM »

I thought the Irish hated Collins for bringing home that controversial peace treaty.