The Grass Did Not Cut Itself ...

Battle of Mars-La-Tour, August 16,1870
Emil Hünten
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Okay Sarge, wait, what? What does grass cutting have to do with the Franco-Prussian War?

Nothing, nada, nichts, it's just that I had to finish up mowing my yard Wednesday and the thickness of the grass made that task take a bit longer than I cared for. At the end of which I ate my supper, then decided that I didn't much feel like writing. So ...

I did find a cool video on the rifles used in the Franco-Prussian War, the French Chassepot and the Prussian Dreyse. Here it is ...

After finding that, I decided to look for other cool videos on the war. I found one that covers the entire war, start to finish. I started watching it, which is reason #2 I didn't do a full-blown historical fiction post today.

The video is six plus hours long, and I watched quite a bit of it, so ...

You don't have to watch all of it, but if you watch the first ten minutes or so, you'll see how the war started. Much like World War I, everyone was itching for the chance to start shooting.

Well, everyone except the poor shmucks who had to do the actual fighting.

The more things change ...

Back tomorrow with, hopefully, another tale of the Franco-Prussian War.

Ciao!