Nick wrote:

Dear Simon,

I hope to reply to your interesting comments when I have some more time.
Best wishes.

--Nick

Chapman billy wrote in
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Someone who might have read many popular books on health care does not
become professionally qualified to practise medicine in a hospital.
One can find something in print to support nearly every conceivable
view of history (for instance, from Daniel Goldhagen to David Irving on
German history 1933-1945).

Dear Nick,

I may as well be hung for a sheep as for a lamb :-)

Can I toss the following from the "professional historian" the late Barbara
Tuchman into the battle? it really is egregious.

From page 174 of "The First Salute":

'The Seven Years War, fought mainly between France and Britain in rivalry
for sovereignty of the seas and for colonial dominion in America and to a
lesser extent in India, was the central war of the century. In America it
was known as the French and Indian War. With hindsight later historians
have seen it as the first real World War because of its subsidiary
conflicts in Europe in the web of territorial and dynastic disputes and
tangled alliances centering around the duel of Prussia and Austria for
dominance. France on Prussia's side was opposed to England allied with
Austria, with Sweden, Spain, and the United Provinces variously involved.'


No wonder Rossbach was such a shock!



Regards (yes I know I'm cheating),

Simon.