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gandalfstwin OGGMSTKMBGSUIKWIATA Posted Jul 19, 2009
The last use of the Longbow in Battle, after its use had killed tens of thousands in battle?
GT
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logicus tracticus philosophicus Posted Jul 20, 2009
great fire of london, plaugue samuel pepes.
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bobstafford Posted Jul 20, 2009
As I said in post 57 pick ONE in post 55
There are 3 and you have picked the 2 wrong ones 
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bobstafford Posted Jul 20, 2009
GT fire -London Sunday, 2 September to Wednesday, 5 September 1666 nope
1st recorded case in London was a Rebecca Andrews, on 12 April 1665 nope
Pepys diry for 17/7 1662
To my office, and by and by to our sitting; where much business. Mr. Coventry took his leave, being to go with the Duke over for the Queen-Mother. I dined at home, and so to my Lord's, where I presented him with a true state of all his accounts to last Monday, being the 14th of July, which did please him, and to my great joy I continue in his great esteem and opinion. I this day took a general acquittance from my Lord to the same day. So that now I have but very few persons to deal withall for money in the world. Home and found much business to be upon my hands, and was late at the office writing letters by candle light, which is rare at this time of the year, but I do it with much content and joy, and then I do please me to see that I begin to have people direct themselves to me in all businesses. Very late I was forced to send for Mr. Turner, Smith, Young, about things to be sent down early to-morrow on board the King's pleasure boat, and so to bed with my head full of business, but well contented in mind as ever in my life.
Nothing special there nope
Good try 
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Taff Agent of kaos Posted Jul 20, 2009
napoleonic wars
and you are going to tell me this one is wrong as well
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bobstafford Posted Jul 20, 2009
Well done taff
17/07/1815 – Napoleonic Wars: In France, Napoleon surrenders at Rochefort, Charente-Maritime to British forces. +3 
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gandalfstwin OGGMSTKMBGSUIKWIATA Posted Jul 20, 2009
Where are we Bob?
Recap if you please!!
GT
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bobstafford Posted Jul 20, 2009
The answers
A nasty one started
The Spanish Civil War has been czlled "the first media war", with the writers and journalists covering it wanting their work "to support the cause" Ernest Hemingway, Martha Gellhorn, George Orwell, and Robert Capa all covered it.
Well done Mc Kay
17/7/1936 Spanish Civil War started +3
An even naster one finished
The Napoleonic Wars were a series of conflicts involving Napoleon's French Empire and changing sets of European allies and opposing coalitions that ran from 1803 to 1815. As a continuation of the wars sparked by the French Revolution of 1789, they revolutionized European armies and played out on an unprecedented scale, mainly due to the application of modern mass conscription.
Well done taff
17/07/1815 – Napoleonic Wars ended +3
And a chap took a river trip
King George I of Great Britain sailed down the River Thames with a barge of 50 musicians, where George Frideric Handel's Water Music is played for the first time.
Well done G
17/7/1717 Handels Water Music on the Thames +3
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- 61: gandalfstwin OGGMSTKMBGSUIKWIATA (Jul 19, 2009)
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- 63: logicus tracticus philosophicus (Jul 20, 2009)
- 64: bobstafford (Jul 20, 2009)
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- 66: Taff Agent of kaos (Jul 20, 2009)
- 67: gandalfstwin OGGMSTKMBGSUIKWIATA (Jul 20, 2009)
- 68: logicus tracticus philosophicus (Jul 20, 2009)
- 69: Taff Agent of kaos (Jul 20, 2009)
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