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https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Kar%C3%A1nsebes (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Kar%C3%A1nsebes)
D'oh!
Quotehttps://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Kar%C3%A1nsebes (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Kar%C3%A1nsebes)
"Losses: . . . Also lost . . . the chest containing the army's payroll."
LOL! Somebody certainly seized their chance there.
Whoops !!!
Quote"Losses: . . . Also lost . . . the chest containing the army's payroll."
LOL! Somebody certainly seized their chance there.
Also lost was the British Army observer, one Major Arthur Flashman, last seen valiantly defending the payroll. Alas the body of this gallant gentleman was never recovered. It is of note that he was the grandsire of the equally heroic Harry Flashman. :)
A more recent example is the Allied recapture of Kiska Island in the Aleutians chain in August 1943
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aleutian_Islands_campaign#Kiska_Island (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aleutian_Islands_campaign#Kiska_Island)
The US battleships Mississippi and Idaho expending over 500 14" shells probably on sooty or short-tailed shearwaters adds to the comedy of errors. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_the_Pips (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_the_Pips)
Not a bad a loss as this!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emu_War
At least the Emus turned up.
IS there truth that in one of Cornwell's Sharpe Novels... sorry don't remember which battle... Spanish Infantry fired a volley early... and scared themselves so that they broke? Sounds a bit Cornwell Spanish tend to have more... well! ;)
It's Talavera and true.