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erastesIt's moving along, but gah! the mistakes one finds !!
I'm describing the Battle of Edgehill and I go and say that the right flank of the King'S cavalry attacked the right flank of the Parliament's. Idiot!
Only if
1. they galloped diagonally across the flood plain OR
2. They were both facing in the same direction.
*kicks self*
I also mention SHRAPNEL. Yeah. In 1642. Riiiiight...... That would have been hard to live down as my fellow historical novelists laughed in my face.
It's a worry!
I'm describing the Battle of Edgehill and I go and say that the right flank of the King'S cavalry attacked the right flank of the Parliament's. Idiot!
Only if
1. they galloped diagonally across the flood plain OR
2. They were both facing in the same direction.
*kicks self*
I also mention SHRAPNEL. Yeah. In 1642. Riiiiight...... That would have been hard to live down as my fellow historical novelists laughed in my face.
It's a worry!
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Date: 2008-10-09 12:21 pm (UTC)Which changes the whole context of Hamlet telling Ophelia to get herself to a nunnery. There's quite a big difference between "oh, go be a nun" and "oh, go join a whorehouse."
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Date: 2008-10-09 02:45 pm (UTC)most people often seem a little surprised that he thinks so very little of her
but then again at that period it wasn't unusual for the bishop and abbesses to rent out their nuns like that for extra money
which is probably where the confusion comes from