>Well:
>- The WHOLE of the Somme campaign for a bloody big first!
>- The Battle of Paschendale
>- the Battle of Ypres (in fact - any damn battle in that war!!!)
>- The Battle of Spion Kopje (Boer War)
>- The fall of Singapore to the Japanese (to my mind the men would have been better off fighting on to the bitter end than how it turned out. Who knows - they may even have prevailed)
>- (I think I've heard in the past) The failure to press on with the BEF in WW II to protect Norway (as I recall) and maybe halt Germany in its tracks
>
>Many more that I haven't the time to think of at the moment.
I'm surprised Yorktown wasn't on that list.
Dan LeClair
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