Re: [HIST??] Culture shock

Ryan Gill wrote:

>> From http://www.britains-smallwars.com/Falklands/South-Georgia.html
>>>
>>>[snip]
>>>
>>>Guerrico finally made her way out of range.	Later an Argentine
officer 
>>>counted over 1,000 hits to her structure. The Royal Marines had taken
on 
>>>a warship, and won the fight. While
>>
>>The Guerrico was hurt, yes... but as soon as she had moved out of the 
>>Royal Marines' weapon range range she opened up with her 100mm gun
again, 
>>causing the Marines to surrender. To say that the Royal Marines "won
the 
>>fight" on this occasion is similar to saying that Al Gore won the
latest 
>>Presidental elections in the United States :-/
>
>Well true, but I never said they won did I.

Quoting the quote from your previous post: "The Royal Marines had taken
on 
a warship, and won the fight."

OK, *you* didn't say that they won - but the quote you included in your 
post did say precisely that, and I saw no mention of the subsequent RM 
surrender in either of your posts.

>I said they worked the ship over, then surrendered.

Hm? Please re-post the part where you said they surrendered - I must
have 
missed that completely in your previous posts :-( The post with the
quote 
from the small-wars web page ended one word after "...won the fight."

>The Argies thought they had an unopposed invasion, then suddenly they
were 
>getting their asses handed to them. Then it's realized that this tiny 
>force of 20 men was a hands-breadth away from scuttling their entire 
>plans. As it was, the Argies were very respectful of the Marines when
they 
>took their surrender. And the RMs were very respectful when they
returned 
>a few months later to take the Argies and guard them after their
surrender.

Respectful against the Argies, but not against the local weather 
conditions... two Wessex 5s crashed on the Fortuna glacier while
attempting 
to save a SAS party who were freezing to death :-/

Regards,
oerjan.ohlson@telia.com

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