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Busy day in History...

By The Armorer on October 14, 2006 | | Comments (1)

...for battles, anyway.

1066: Hastings.

1431: The Catholic Hapsburgs beat up on the Protestant Hussites at Waidhofen - the only websites I found are in german.

1758, Frederick the Great gets his butt handed to him by the Austrians at Hochkirch.


1805 - It didn't always go Austria's way today. In 1805 Marshal Ney spanked Feldmarschall-Leutnant Graf von Riesch at Eichingen.

1806 - While Napoleon was spanking the Prussians at Jena, Davout destroyed them at Auerstadt, taking the Prussians out of the picture until Blücher shows up in 1813 for the beginning of the end. The Germans didn't always beat the French...

1912 - Teddy Roosevelt's life is saved by an excessively wordy speech - which he delivers even after he was shot...

1943 - Black Thursday. The 8th AF bombs the Schweinfurt ball bearing factory.

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By Neffi on October 14, 2006 6:54 PM
Schweinfurt- a beautiful town and peopled with friendly folk- for the most part. I was stationed there for two years with 3/7 ACR from 78-80. But sometimes- at the local BierFest or at the market, or just walking down the street you could look up and find yourself being stared at with naked hatred by a man or woman of WWII age... Typical of European towns of the time, the houses surrounding the ball-bearing plants were occupied by the employees of the concern. 'Bomber' Harris of the RAF openly declared that these workers were legitimate targets- I don't recollect that LeMay said the same- but the fact remains that Schweinfurt was a small, congested target and the raids inflicted rather large numbers of civilian casualties. But the whole war was a horrorshow anyhoo... And it was very much a legitimate target. Dam it anyway.
 
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