Re: Ship Naming Convention (was: RE: What, no messages?)

> (My historian side demands I say this.  My Canadian side still winces
when I
> hear the words Dieppe, especially since my hometown of Windsor is
where the
> Essex/Kent Scottish (one of the reg't involved in the raid) was and
still
> is home based.)

That, of course was one of Monty's.. along with Market Garden, closing
the Falaise gap (in which between 20,000 to 40,000 germans escaped), the
pursuit after Alamain..

von Rundsted said of Montgomery "Montgomery was always extremely
cautious and unwilling to take risks... (He) was very systematic, which
is all right if you have sufficient resources and time."

-- 
Barry Cadwgan ( BCADWGAN@FL.NET.AU )
http://www.users.fl.net.au/~bcadwgan/homepage.htm
"The end does not justify the means.  
 The end is the sum of the means,
 as the road travelled determines the destination." 
Valijon Starbringer (Hellflower Trilogy, Eluki bes Shahar)