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

On Wed, 08 Apr 1998 08:55:03 +1000, Barry Cadwgan <bcadwgan@fl.net.au>
wrote:

>> (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..

Monty was only involved in some of the preliminary planning. The blame
really
goes to Mountbatten. The rest of the stuff is right.

Oh, and just to save posting another message, to correct Jerry, the
Battle of
New Orleans was in 1815, not 1814.

Allan Goodall	     agoodall@sympatico.ca

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