Top right is really a painting of the charge of the Scots Greys at Waterloo. We actually won that one, I believe.
A British squaddie compared Basra favourably to Portsmouth. Probably ****ing paradise compared to Sunderland
... very true and a good spot ... although, in reality, we got lucky (or rather, that Irishman, Sir Arthur Wellesley did ) ... Old Boney was kicking our collective arse until Blucher and the Prussians turned up with typical German efficiency ....
Must have been bloody difficult creating the biggest empire the world had ever seen with all those defeats going on. Wonder how that worked?
Not that well ... Genghiz Khan ensured our attempt never quite made it into the Guinness Book Of Empires ... the git
The world was a simpler place when these chaps ruled it... please log in to view this image No one stops for tiffin anymore.
Hmmm ... not so sure from what I've read buddy ... old Genghiz was pretty hard core and if his grandson hadn't died whilst one of his armies was approaching the gates of Vienna, the world might be a very different place today ...
