On this day in History

In 1812, the Second Siege of Ciudad Rodrigo in the Peninsular War started. One siege in a long war that bled Bonaparte's army white.
In 1815 the Battle of New Orleans, when one of the most incompetent generals in British history (and that's saying something!) marched his men in range of an American fortified position and had them stand still to be shot at, then marched them away.

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Colormegone · 70-79, M

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MandyMitchell · 80-89, F

@Colormegone that's the battle: a nonsense song of course, but just the usual propaganda one expects on such occasions.

Colormegone · 70-79, M

@MandyMitchell I was eight years old when the song came out. It made number one on the American charts.

MandyMitchell · 80-89, F

@Colormegone Of course it did! Americans seem to be brought up on American history, distorted or not. I doubt our schools even teach any British history now. I doubt one person in a thousand has even heard of the war of 1812- maybe one in ten thousand. It was only a minor campaign instigated by Bonaparte as a distraction before his Russian adventure.

Colormegone · 70-79, M

@MandyMitchell Sadly, true.

MandyMitchell · 80-89, F

@Colormegone One of my grandchildren was 'taught' about the First World War at school. All he learned was that women got the vote. Nothing about the slaughter, the gas, the air raids on Britain, the fantastic response by the Commonwealth, the campaigns in Africa and the Middle east or the birth of the League of nations.

Colormegone · 70-79, M

@MandyMitchell Don’t get me started about what was taught over here about Christopher Columbus.😡

MandyMitchell · 80-89, F

@Colormegone sailed the Ocean Blue?