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  1. J

    Live Conflict War in Afghanistan

    Hahahha. Please read it again. Slowly. "They worked at the coal screens on the pit bank at the shaft top until the 1960s" Do you understand the difference between "until the 1960s" and "in 1960"?
  2. J

    Live Conflict War in Afghanistan

    So what's the lie here?
  3. J

    Live Conflict War in Afghanistan

    The video isn't from Channel 5 or BFI.
  4. J

    Live Conflict War in Afghanistan

    Lol A little more digging and this is what they are - Pit brow women or pit brow lasses were female surface labourers at British collieries. They worked at the coal screens on the pit bank at the shaft top until the 1960s. Their job was to pick stones from the coal after it was hauled to the...
  5. J

    Live Conflict War in Afghanistan

    There is no proof. This is the review of the series. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-6695753/Edwardian-Britain-brought-life-vivid-colour-astonishing-new-series.html What you mentioned isn't there.
  6. J

    Live Conflict War in Afghanistan

    So there is really no footage associated with either of your links?
  7. J

    Live Conflict War in Afghanistan

    The former link is broken The second link is to a You Tube channel - not to a video 🤷
  8. J

    Live Conflict War in Afghanistan

    Lol - Talibuddies and terror apologists believe anything
  9. J

    India Historical Indian History Archive

    They've found an undiscovered 3200 year old civilization in Tamil Nadu too.
  10. J

    India Historical Indian War History Thread

    Let's not forget Shastri.
  11. J

    India Historical Indian War History Thread

    One more tank Battle fought in the war of 1965 was "The Battle of Phillora" fought inside Pakistan. It resulted in a decisive Indian victory. At the end of the tank battles India still retained almost 200 square miles (500 square kilometres) of Pakistani territory in the Sialkot sector...
  12. J

    India Historical Indian War History Thread

    There is another major tank Battle which was fought in the 1965 - the Battle of Chawinda While it was a major tank Battle, the result of the Battle of Chawinda was largely inconclusive Sources - Manus I. Midlarsky (2011). Origins of Political Extremism: Mass Violence in the Twentieth...
  13. J

    India Historical Indian War History Thread

    Source 4 Hagerty, Devin (2005). South Asia in world politics. Rowman & Littlefield. p. 26. ISBN 978-0-7425-2587-0. Quote: The invading Indian forces outfought their Pakistani counterparts and halted their attack on the outskirts of Lahore, Pakistan's second-largest city. By the time the United...
  14. J

    Why was/is the British army so capable?

    A lot had to do with the fact that they were inherently more secular and forward thinking than the other Armies of that time. Of course there was racism but the British Armed Forces were largely a meritocracy. Unlike say the American troops who AFAIK didn't allow African American troops and even...

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