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[Pat Vegas]

I think Fash just wanted a recommendation of the best local whore house.

Yes that would be most useful as it seems complicated.
Hang on a minute I am not fash. That foul t shirt wearing tube map saddo.

I am more of a 5 star hotel luxury timepiece kind of chap.

[Maravilloso Marvo]

Yes that would be most useful as it seems complicated.
Hang on a minute I am not fash. That foul t shirt wearing tube map saddo.

I am more of a 5 star hotel luxury timepiece kind of chap.

You can take the Fash out of Pat Vegas, or something like that.

[Maravilloso Marvo]

Cheers. Hadn't heard of Bunker Hill.

But it wasn't a century later. Bunker Hill was 1775 and we first used Congreve Rockets in 1806.

The War of 1812 use vs the Yanks that I was talking about was:

"It was the use of ship-launched Congreve rockets by the British in the bombardment of Fort McHenry in the US in 1814 that inspired a phrase in the fifth line of the first verse of the United States' national anthem, "The Star-Spangled Banner": "the rockets’ red glare". HMS Erebus fired the rockets from a 32-pound rocket battery installed below the main deck, which fired through portholes or scuttles pierced in the ship's side."

But thank you so much for getting me to google. I never knew the rockets were actually invented by our Indian enemies:

"The king of Mysore, Tipu Sultan and his father Hyder Ali[6] developed the military tactic of using massed wave attacks supported by rocket artillery against enemy positions. In 1792, Tipu Sultan wrote a military manual called Fathul Mujahidin, in which two hundred artillerymen specialising in rocket artillery were prescribed to each Mysorean brigade (known as cushoons). Mysore had between sixteen and twenty-four cushoons of infantry"

Tipu Sultan built that mechanical tiger that plays music as the robot tiger munches a British redcoat:

"Tipu's Tiger or Tippu's Tiger is an 18th-century automaton created for Tipu Sultan, the ruler of the Kingdom of Mysore (present day Karnataka) in India. The carved and painted wood casing represents a tiger mauling a near life-size European man. Mechanisms inside the tiger and the man's body make one hand of the man move, emit a wailing sound from his mouth and grunts from the tiger. In addition a flap on the side of the tiger folds down to reveal the keyboard of a small pipe organ with 18 notes."

It's in the V&A and it's worth going there just to see that.

https://www.vam.ac.uk/articles/tipus...zMHCHEs9KpBUdp

So you're right about the sub-continetal origins which I didn't know {and you know how happy learning about Indian genius makes me, so again, thank you.}

But it wasn't a century after Bunker Hill. The Mysore Kingdom were using them within a decade of that Battle, we first used them about 30 years after the battle and we first used them against the Septic 40 years after the Bunker Hill and the Septics still moan about it in the national anthem.

Sorry to bore you with history but thank you so much. {My MA presentation was on the Indian troops on the western front 1914-15.}

You can say that again