Quirk of History........😅
Quirk of history
In 1788, Austrian forces defending the town of Karánsebes got drunk on schnapps and started fighting, says Robert Hutton in The Critic. In the confusion they became convinced they were under attack from the Ottoman army, and “opened fire on each other with artillery before retreating in disarray”. Two days later, the Ottomans turned up “to find dead and wounded Austrians and an undefended town”.
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In 1788, Austrian forces defending the town of Karánsebes got drunk on schnapps and started fighting, says Robert Hutton in The Critic. In the confusion they became convinced they were under attack from the Ottoman army, and “opened fire on each other with artillery before retreating in disarray”. Two days later, the Ottomans turned up “to find dead and wounded Austrians and an undefended town”.
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