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17 September 2005

Ask Mecha: I have to put together a list of fights historical. Rather arbitrarily, I want to limit the list chronologically -- starting from the first Athenian victory of the Persian Wars, in which a Greek soldier ran over twenty miles back to Athens with news of the victory, and ending Napoléon's last battle.

Oh, and I need to list these fights in order categorical. Can Mecha help me?

post by: orthogonality at: 06:39 | 18 comments

I'd love to help, but how? "I already told you, I'm a lover not a fighter."

Actually, I suspect that I don't know enough military history to be useful.

posted by omiewise 17 September | 09:04

So your military knowledge, though you're plucky and adventury
will only be brought down to the beginning of the 19th century?

posted by George_Spiggott 17 September | 10:25

I'm really more of a math guy. Do you need any facts about the square of the hypotenuse?

posted by yhbc 17 September | 10:46

yhbc: only the cheerful ones, please.

posted by orthogonality 17 September | 10:53

George_Spiggott: what is meant by "mamelon" and "ravelin"?

posted by orthogonality 17 September | 11:02

Have you checked the wiki?

posted by iconomy 17 September | 11:14

ortho: the model of a modern major general

posted by amberglow 17 September | 11:31

Sorry, no help here, orthogonality. But I can whistle all the airs from that infernal nonsense Pinafore.

posted by sbutler 17 September | 11:33

At times like this I console myself with the croaking chorus from The Frogs of Aristophanes.

posted by agropyron 17 September | 11:38

That's going to be a hell of a list, and sounds like a lot of work. I've done some reading of Roman/Byzantine history, and that list itself would be long. Fight amongst yourselves people.

posted by eekacat 17 September | 12:00

Mamelon: a guest appearance by Rosalind Russell on a series by J. Michael Straczynski.
Ravelin: what happens to your sweater when you snag it on the rosebushes.

I don't get you people, this was all covered in class.

posted by George_Spiggott 17 September | 12:06

You know, I always thought it would be a glorious thing to be the hereditary ruler of a band of buccaneers.

I wonder if it is?

posted by yhbc 17 September | 12:20

yhbc: but what if you wanted to marry a Major General's daughter? It would only work out if you were actually no member of the common throng; but a nobleman who has gone wrong, in addition to being a Pirate King.

Or, nevermind the why and wherefore, does love level all ranks?

posted by orthogonality 17 September | 12:31

*has horrible brainflash of Kristy McNichol in that remake*

posted by amberglow 17 September | 12:53

I dream one day of seeing a production of it here. (Link goes to a production of The Hunting of the Snark, and not, um, tPop, as they don't seem to have put it on in the last two years. Bafflingly.)

posted by George_Spiggott 17 September | 13:03

Anyone know where I could find a calendar of all G&S performances in the East Coast states? I'm willing to day trip, or get a hotel if I can catch a performance one noight and a matinee the next.

posted by orthogonality 17 September | 13:28

starting from the first Athenian victory of the Persian Wars, in which a Greek soldier ran over twenty miles back to Athens with news of the victory

Ah yes. The battle of Marathon. Tho' here in the States we know it as the battle of Snickers.

/stolen

posted by PinkStainlessTail 17 September | 14:40

I am sorry that joke murdered your thread, ortho.

posted by PinkStainlessTail 17 September | 20:42

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