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Legions of Rome
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02-09-2010, 07:11 PM
Quote:Not as good as Roddy, who then went on to play a chimp called Cornelius!

And Bon Chance Louie in Tales of the Golden Monkey. Now Mr Blakeney, there was a real sailor, not like that Hornblower bloke (whose biographer - C. Northcote Parkinson - once called Admiral David Milne* a 'Scotch nobody' which has to be one of the biggest misjudgements of a man who survived 'mild contusions of the thighs' after a cannonball passed between his legs during the Bombardment of Algiers).

Now, why did I start this thread?!?!?!

Mike Bishop

*To give a Roman military context to that mess of off-topic nonsense, Milne owned Inveresk Gate estate, under which a portion of the vicus of Inveresk fort is situated. His grandson was allegedly the model for Eeyore.
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Legions of Rome - by mcbishop - 01-28-2010, 08:22 PM
Re: Legions of Rome - by MARCvSVIBIvSMAvRINvS - 01-28-2010, 08:28 PM
Re: Legions of Rome - by arklore70 - 01-29-2010, 07:18 AM
Re: Legions of Rome - by Jona Lendering - 01-29-2010, 08:30 AM
Re: Legions of Rome - by Jasper Oorthuys - 01-29-2010, 10:41 AM
Re: Legions of Rome - by Jona Lendering - 01-29-2010, 02:49 PM
Re: Legions of Rome - by Narukami - 01-29-2010, 04:48 PM
Re: Legions of Rome - by Sean Manning - 01-31-2010, 06:52 PM
Re: Legions of Rome - by Jona Lendering - 01-31-2010, 07:05 PM
Re: Legions of Rome - by Gaius Julius Caesar - 01-31-2010, 07:21 PM
Re: Legions of Rome - by Ron Andrea - 01-31-2010, 09:37 PM
Re: Legions of Rome - by Gaius Julius Caesar - 02-01-2010, 10:44 AM
Re: Legions of Rome - by Jona Lendering - 02-01-2010, 11:45 AM
Re: Legions of Rome - by Gaius Julius Caesar - 02-01-2010, 12:48 PM
Re: Legions of Rome - by Jasper Oorthuys - 02-01-2010, 01:38 PM
Re: Legions of Rome - by Jona Lendering - 02-01-2010, 01:52 PM
Re: Legions of Rome - by Jasper Oorthuys - 02-01-2010, 02:01 PM
Re: Legions of Rome - by MARCvSVIBIvSMAvRINvS - 02-01-2010, 02:06 PM
Re: Legions of Rome - by Jona Lendering - 02-01-2010, 02:28 PM
Re: Legions of Rome - by MARCvSVIBIvSMAvRINvS - 02-01-2010, 03:23 PM
Re: Legions of Rome - by Narukami - 02-01-2010, 05:54 PM
Re: Legions of Rome - by Tim Edwards - 02-08-2010, 08:16 AM
Re: Legions of Rome - by Graham Sumner - 02-09-2010, 01:32 AM
Re: Legions of Rome - by Narukami - 02-09-2010, 05:24 AM
Re: Legions of Rome - by D B Campbell - 02-09-2010, 11:51 AM
Re: Legions of Rome - by mcbishop - 02-09-2010, 12:00 PM
Re: Legions of Rome - by MARCvSVIBIvSMAvRINvS - 02-09-2010, 12:30 PM
Re: Legions of Rome - by D B Campbell - 02-09-2010, 12:45 PM
Re: Legions of Rome - by MARCvSVIBIvSMAvRINvS - 02-09-2010, 01:41 PM
Re: Legions of Rome - by Graham Sumner - 02-09-2010, 05:22 PM
Re: Legions of Rome - by mcbishop - 02-09-2010, 07:11 PM
Re: Legions of Rome - by MARCvSVIBIvSMAvRINvS - 02-09-2010, 07:39 PM
Re: Legions of Rome - by Narukami - 02-09-2010, 07:53 PM
Re: Legions of Rome - by Thersites - 10-23-2010, 11:16 PM
Re: Legions of Rome - by D B Campbell - 10-24-2010, 01:01 PM
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Re: Legions of Rome - by Jasper Oorthuys - 10-25-2010, 02:24 PM
Re: Legions of Rome - by Thersites - 10-29-2010, 12:46 AM
Re: Legions of Rome - by Lindsay_Powell - 10-29-2010, 02:08 AM
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