Lieutenant John Chard: What's our strength? Lieutenant Gonville Bromhead: Seven officers including surgeon, commissaries and so on; Adendorff now I suppose; wounded and sick 36, fit for duty 97 and about 40 native levies. Not much of an army for you.
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Subject: If the orders where fake? Sun Nov 27, 2011 5:47 pm
If the Durnford papers where faked by his Brother Edward or his Friend Nell then why..............
Where the "Orders to officers commding Columns" Also made??
They help in no way to clear Durnford
Cheers DB14
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Subject: Re: If the orders where fake? Sun Nov 27, 2011 5:54 pm
DB14, Edward and/or Nell didn't fake any papers - that is a nowhere argument.
Drummer Boy 14
Posts : 2008 Join date : 2011-08-01 Age : 25
Subject: Re: If the orders where fake? Sun Nov 27, 2011 5:58 pm
Hi Colin J
Sorry some people may have been unsure if they where real ( See the topic " Durnford was he capable " )
I was tying to say that if they where fake then there is no reason for the " Instructions to officers commanding colmns" to also have been made.
There for the papers must be real
Plus all the other evidence
Cheers DB14
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Subject: Re: If the orders where fake? Sun Nov 27, 2011 6:04 pm
DB14, no need to apologise to me my friend, I understood what you were meaning, it's just that the subject matter is lately being taken off on bizarre paths, for the sole purpose of discrediting them, hoping, it seems to me, to create another (new) piece of 'mischief history', which helps nobody.
tasker224
Posts : 2101 Join date : 2010-07-30 Age : 55 Location : North London
Subject: Re: If the orders where fake? Sun Nov 27, 2011 7:16 pm
DB14, best to look at the evidence yourself. Read reliable books by reliable authors - who may offer different opinions and interpretations of that same evidence, and make up your own mind, whilst keeping an open mind.
Don't get involved in conspiracy theories, twist evidence to suit your own beliefs, or become stuck in your views so much, that you see only what backs up your own twisted viewpoint, whilst ignoring all the other evidence. Like one or two posters on this forum that I
C ould mention, but T o be fair, i don't want to mention their S illy names or i will be G oing to the ring again.
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Posts : 4308 Join date : 2008-11-01 Age : 63 Location : KENT
Subject: Re: If the orders where fake? Sun Nov 27, 2011 7:52 pm
Quote :
C ould mention, but T o be fair, i don't want to mention their S illy names or i will be G oing to the ring again.
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