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Following the Dickus war theme:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Churchill

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In July 1943, as commanding officer, he led 2 Commando from their landing site at Catania in Sicily with his trademark Scottish broadsword slung around his waist, a longbow and arrows around his neck and his bagpipes under his arm,[18] which he also did in the landings at Salerno.

Leading 2 Commando, Churchill was ordered to capture a German observation post outside the town of Molina [it; nl], controlling a pass leading down to the Salerno beachhead.[19] With the help of a corporal, he infiltrated the town and captured the post, taking 42 prisoners including a mortar squad. Churchill led the men and prisoners back down the pass, with the wounded being carried on carts pushed by German prisoners. He commented that it was "an image from the Napoleonic Wars."[19] He received the Distinguished Service Order for leading this action at Salerno.[20]

Churchill later walked back to the town to retrieve his sword, which he had lost in hand-to-hand combat with the German regiment. On his way there, he encountered a disoriented American patrol mistakenly walking towards enemy lines. When the NCO in command of the patrol refused to turn around, Churchill told them that he was going his own way and that he wouldn't come back for a "bloody third time".[4]"

 

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And another:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Stamford_Bridge

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The sudden appearance of the English army caught the Norwegians by surprise.[14] The English advance was then delayed by the need to pass through the choke-point presented by the bridge itself. The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle has it that a giant Norse axeman (possibly armed with a Dane Axe) blocked the narrow crossing and single-handedly held up the entire English army. The story is that this axeman cut down up to 40 Englishmen and was defeated only when an English soldier floated under the bridge in a half-barrel and thrust his spear through the planks in the bridge, mortally wounding the axeman.[15]"

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10 hours ago, Vanzant said:

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Estonia is actually insanely rich in swamps. In fact, the only country in the world with more is Finland. Massive Canada, for instance, is third after Estonia. We’re not kidding; Estonia has more than 165,000 swamps, 132 of them over 2,500 acres. Or how about 7,000 bogs that cover over 22% of the Estonian mainland?

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