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Lord Chelmsford Said .Buller is ‘one of the finest soldiers of the century’, so modest and reticent –that it was difficult to say for what individual deed he had got the Victoria Cross as he had been doing acts worthy of it all along the line
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Posts : 2099 Join date : 2013-09-08 Age : 64 Location : Lower Sheering, Essex
Subject: Easter Egg Hunt - not really Sun Apr 16, 2017 12:10 pm
Who, or what connects Staff Sergeant MacChesney and Sergeants F. Mulcahy and T. Quincannon to King Cetshwayo kaMpande?
Leave the chocolate alone and put on those thinking caps!
John Y.
Isandula
Posts : 264 Join date : 2010-08-13
Subject: Re: Easter Egg Hunt - not really Sun Apr 16, 2017 3:42 pm
These three were the brawling Irish sergeants in director John Ford's "Cavalry Trilogy" of the movies "For Apache," "She Wore a Yellow Ribbon," and "Rio Grande"--all featuring John Wayne. As to the connection with King Cetshwayo, I can only hazard that in the one movie peace overtures were made to the Indian leader, but in the end the Native American hordes wiped out Cavalry leader Henry Fonda and his men similar to Isandlwana. Warm? No chocolate here, JB. PS Could it be that John Wayne was Cetshwayo's grandson from an illegitimate tryst fathered when the king visited the UK in 1882? The King didn't bring his wives with him and so must have needed company.
John Young
Posts : 2099 Join date : 2013-09-08 Age : 64 Location : Lower Sheering, Essex
Subject: Re: Easter Egg Hunt - not really Sun Apr 16, 2017 4:06 pm
RB,
That's the two Sergeants accounted for Mulcahy was in Fort Apache, and the character of Quincannon appears in both She Wore a Yellow Ribbon and Rio Grande.
You'll have to look for a better man to find the Staff Sergeant, and a different army as well.
Close but no cigar, chocolate or Cuban!
JB
xhosa2000
Posts : 1203 Join date : 2015-11-24
Subject: Re: Easter Egg Hunt - not really Sun Apr 16, 2017 4:57 pm
Posts : 2099 Join date : 2013-09-08 Age : 64 Location : Lower Sheering, Essex
Subject: Re: Easter Egg Hunt - not really Sun Apr 16, 2017 5:15 pm
Les,
That's the man, so what's the link to King Cetshwayo?
JY
xhosa2000
Posts : 1203 Join date : 2015-11-24
Subject: Re: Easter Egg Hunt - not really Sun Apr 16, 2017 6:45 pm
Beat's me JY, i have the trilogy on blu ray, i'ts been bugging me all day. grrr.
xhosa2000
Posts : 1203 Join date : 2015-11-24
Subject: Re: Easter Egg Hunt - not really Sun Apr 16, 2017 7:28 pm
Victor McLaglen. there is a connection to South Africa, but i guess i will have to wait for the reveal..
one of my favourite actors David Niven. Niven's grandfather William Degacher was killed in the Battle of Isandlwana (1879), during the Zulu War.. i have just re read bring on the empty horses.brilliant, i will have to get another copy of the moons a balloon.
rusteze
Posts : 2881 Join date : 2010-06-02
Subject: Re: Easter Egg Hunt - not really Sun Apr 16, 2017 7:29 pm
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