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421 Re: ( very minor THD & BaTM spoiler ) Re: Sir Edward Pellew -- rank: 633

On Fri, 11 Aug 2000 16:57:42 EDT, Jessey wrote: >The first time is in the very beginning (page 11) of Treason's Harbour, where >he is eating some meal with Jack and other post-captains/commanders, all >without ships. It's a really small mention, however. I should have posted this here: [This was the reference to TH] According to Gary Brown's indispensable PASC, there is a fleeting reference in a later book to a Captain Pelham, or Pellew (both names are used), who *may* represen ...

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422 Re: ( very minor THD & BaTM spoiler ) Re: Sir Edward Pellew -- rank: 633

In a message dated 8/11/00 12:35:29 PM Pacific Daylight Time, elmquist@BELLATLANTIC.NET writes: << I think Pellew gets mentioned by name at least once, too, although I can't  for the life of me remember where... >> The first time is in the very beginning (page 11) of Treason's Harbour, where he is eating some meal with Jack and other post-captains/commanders, all without ships. It's a really small mention, however. The second is in The Thirteen Gun Salute, page 108, with a sim ...

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423 ( very minor THD & BaTM spoiler ) Re: Sir Edward Pellew -- rank: 633

Czaerana@aol.com wrote: > Does he appear in the series? If so, I'll be picturing him as the splendid > Robert Lindsey from the "Hornblower" films. I loved it when he thundered > "Damn your impudence, sir!" at poor adorable Horatio. :-) > > ********* > Cynthia Sort of... In books 19 and 20 a fictional admiral with a similar peerage title occupies a position Pellew occupied in history.

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424 Re: ( very minor THD & BaTM spoiler ) Re: Sir Edward Pellew -- rank: 633

I think Pellew gets mentioned by name at least once, too, although I can't for the life of me remember where... - Tony Elmquist > > > Does he appear in the series? If so, I'll be picturing him as > the splendid > > Robert Lindsey from the "Hornblower" films. I loved it when he thundered > > "Damn your impudence, sir!" at poor adorable Horatio. :-) > > > > ********* > > Cynthia > > Sort of... In books 19 and 20 a fic ...

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425 Re: Churchill: was, BatM spoiler -- rank: 633

Dick McEachern suggests reading Bill Manchester's book on Churchill. Yes, Manchester's bio of Churchill is good, but if you're limited to one more book, maybe Alan Brooke's bio casts a brighter light on Churchill. Reading WSC and Brooke and comparing their comments day for day, you'll find Churchill writing something like, "I had a good meeting with Brookie on the Amdaman Island plan yesterday." For the same date, you'll find Brooke telling his diary something like, "I would ...

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426 Re: Churchill: was, BatM spoiler -- rank: 633

At 08:49 PM 6/14/00 , Chareleszzz wrote: >In a message dated 6/14/0 7:34:05 PM, eladner@DNAI.COM writes: > ><< Strangely enough, I read that [WSC gone to the front in WW1] just last >night in Keegan's _First >World War_. He did get around! >> > > >I've recommended his 6-volume (and perfectly marvelous) memoir of the second >world war. Now I recommend his 4-volume (and marvelous) memoir of the first >world war: the World Crisis.          Along ...

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427 Re: Churchill: was, BatM spoiler -- rank: 633

At 11:50 PM 14/06/00 -0400, Rowen84@AOL.COM wrote: >The 'blurb' at the beginning of the story says," In 1899 Mr. Winston >Churchill was Press Correspondent to the "Morning Post" for the Boer War. On >November 5th he and two companies of English soldiers were ambushed in an >armoured train. Largely due to Mr. Churchill, the engine and forty wounded >men escaped from the ambush, but he and the others were captured." I remember the incident. He made a spee ...

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428 Re: BatM spoiler -- rank: 633

At 09:11 PM 14/06/00 -0400, Charles Munoz wrote: >In a message dated 6/14/0 3:01:50 PM, peter.mackay@BIGPOND.COM writes: > ><< I remember when he flew in. Slim, who was running the show until then, had >ordered the red centre of RAF roundels painted out, so that any plane with >a red disc on it was presumed to be Japanese and thus fair game. >> > >By jing, I finally realize why the red circle in the middle of the white star >on US aircraft was left out ...

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429 Re: Churchill: was, BatM spoiler -- rank: 633

Rowen wrote: >The 'blurb' at the beginning of the story says," In 1899 Mr. Winston >Churchill was Press Correspondent to the "Morning Post" for the Boer War. On >November 5th he and two companies of English soldiers were ambushed in an >armoured train. Largely due to Mr. Churchill, the engine and forty wounded >men escaped from the ambush, but he and the others were captured." > >This first hand account clearly shows that Churchill was not in the ...

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430 Re: Churchill: was, BatM spoiler -- rank: 633

In a message dated 6/14/0 7:34:05 PM, eladner@DNAI.COM writes: << Strangely enough, I read that [WSC gone to the front in WW1] just last night in Keegan's _First World War_. He did get around! >> >> Also strangely enough, I just came across a little story called "My Escape from the Boers, by The Rt. Hon. Winston Churchill in an ancient book called Fifty True Stories Stranger Than Fiction, Odhams Press, London, 1948, an almost-800 page book of amazing, and reputedly ...

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431 Re: Churchill: was, BatM spoiler -- rank: 633

On Wed, 14 Jun 2000, Charles Munoz wrote: > First, early on, as First Lord, Churchill took a bunch of sailors and Royal > Marines (called the Royal Naval Division) and some armored cars and went to > Antwerp with them, "thirsting for action and glory," says Keegan (whom I'm > reading too this week) trying to hold back the Germans, who were shoving the > armies of England and France out of their way. Antwerp fell anyhow, and > Churchill came back to London. His ...

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432 NOT A "BatM spoiler" -- rank: 633

We could probably take spoiler warning out of the subject so as not to scare off anyone who might like to follow this thread. John Boston In a message dated 06/14/2000 7:34:05 PM EST, eladner@DNAI.COM writes: << At 6:52 AM -0500 6/14/00, C. Mark Smith wrote: >It seems to me that I've read this account in several books. For better or >worse, they couldn't keep him from the front in the Great War either!    Strangely enough, I read that just last night in Keegan's _First  W ...

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433 Churchill: was, BatM spoiler -- rank: 633

In a message dated 6/14/0 7:34:05 PM, eladner@DNAI.COM writes: << Strangely enough, I read that [WSC gone to the front in WW1] just last night in Keegan's _First World War_. He did get around! >> First, early on, as First Lord, Churchill took a bunch of sailors and Royal Marines (called the Royal Naval Division) and some armored cars and went to Antwerp with them, "thirsting for action and glory," says Keegan (whom I'm reading too this week) trying to hold back the ...

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434 Re: BatM spoiler -- rank: 633

In a message dated 6/14/0 3:01:50 PM, peter.mackay@BIGPOND.COM writes: << I remember when he flew in. Slim, who was running the show until then, had ordered the red centre of RAF roundels painted out, so that any plane with a red disc on it was presumed to be Japanese and thus fair game. >> By jing, I finally realize why the red circle in the middle of the white star on US aircraft was left out after 1941. Never understood it before. The meatball! Of course! Thanks, Peter.     ...

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435 Re: BatM spoiler -- rank: 633

At 6:52 AM -0500 6/14/00, C. Mark Smith wrote: >It seems to me that I've read this account in several books. For better or >worse, they couldn't keep him from the front in the Great War either! Strangely enough, I read that just last night in Keegan's _First World War_. He did get around! - EAL

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