>23 August 1914
23 August 1914
Ethan Flores
Daniel Wilson
>The men all chilled to the bone, almost too exhausted to move and with the depressing consciousness of defeat weighing heavily upon them. A bad defeat, there can be no gainsaying it... we had been badly beaten, and by the English – by the English we had so laughed at a few hours before.
Simply smashing.
Justin Turner
Having a professional army that can inflict 2-1 casualties on what is arguably the most powerful army on Earth, even at a numerical disadvantage, is nice. What's not nice is suffering 100,000 casualties in a few months and suddenly you have to raise an army from scratch because that's 2/3 of your entire military.
Blake Turner
>Our brave lads die in some European war because the krauts decided to use Belgium as a shortcut
>smug
Joseph Murphy
well overall sad, yes. but as a last hurrah for colonial soldiery it's a fitting ending
Luis Baker
>but as a last hurrah for colonial soldiery it's a fitting ending
>millions of men drowning in mud
>last hurrah
Alexander Lewis
Honestly why does belgium even exist? Everyone just walks through them to get to either france or Germany
Cooper Morris
>why does belgium exist
to give the british the excuse to intervene in a continental struggle
Evan Ortiz
what a time to be alive that would have been
Chase Williams
France wanted it too.
Juan Long
>15 July – 6 August 1918
David Wood
do you understand what last hurrah means? it means "final act". and, no, only BEF were colonial veterans, the mass conscripts that came after were not
Lincoln Jones
The last hurrah was the falklands desu
William Morales
July – 6 August 1918
wait what were italians doing here? weren't they busy getting cadorno'd?
Jeremiah Butler
>July 8 1989
Hunter Diaz
That's exactly why it exists.
Landon Powell
true
Levi Mitchell
France asked for meatshields
Daniel Gray
By that point austria hungary was done for
Anthony Watson
>these fucking casualties
Imagine the mess nowadays if only 1000 dudes died in a battle.
Austin Sullivan
Belgium isn't even a real country anyway. Britain should've just helped big willy fuck up the french and finally take back Calais.
Eli Diaz
It would depend on the context. A war with another major power and people would be happy that the nukes aren't flying. Some random counter-insurgency war and the reaction would depend on the number of troops engaged vs the size of the enemy force. Oh and obviously whether or not our guys won would matter as well.