Battle of Kuban

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Re: Battle of Kuban

Post by Biggs » Sun Sep 18, 2016 2:26 am

I thought Germany got into Africa cause they needed to bail out Il Duce, and just went from there.
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Re: Battle of Kuban

Post by Dickie » Sun Sep 18, 2016 12:29 pm

They did. The oaf didn't bank on having such a shit army.

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Re: Battle of Kuban

Post by Dots » Mon Oct 10, 2016 3:23 pm

Dickie wrote:They did. The oaf didn't bank on having such a shit army.
Well when they had a hard time with the Ethiopians it should have been a clue lol!

Amazing to think that these are the ancestors of the people that basically created European history.

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Re: Battle of Kuban

Post by Dickie » Mon Oct 10, 2016 4:18 pm

They borrowed and stole from all cultures they encountered, but brought them into their system. Regarding culture, they even nicked that from the Greeks - whom conquered whom?

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Re: Battle of Kuban

Post by Sprite » Mon Oct 10, 2016 8:54 pm

Well when they had a hard time with the Ethiopians it should have been a clue lol!
You're confusing the 2 Abyssinian wars. When they failed to take Ethiopia, that was in 1895. The 2nd time in the mid-30's (and under Mussolini), Ethiopia was occupied relatively quickly (a matter of months).

That's also a huge over-simplification of the conflict. The Ethiopians were armed with modern French rifles and Russian artillery and had a strength of over 100,000 soldiers at the Battle of Adwa, Italy had 17,000 and their rifles were antiquated.

Imagine if the Zulu were equipped with French rifles and Russian artillery. Poor Michael Caine would have never made it!

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