Quote Originally Posted by BEEDEE View Post
What classic piece of history. It's a reminder that the military often do good works that are obscured by the battles and often overlooked by the historians. Thank you for sharing it with us.

Brian
Actually the historians are usually the only ones who remember it!

Reminds me of the story of the HMS Birkenhead in 1852, when British Soldiers remained at their post of a sinking troopship off of South Africa rather than swamping lifeboats filled with women and children. Kipling wrote:

To stand and be still, and do the Birkenhead drill is a d***ed tough bullet to chew.

Cheers,

Todd