Watercolour by Richard Simkin, 1900 (c).
Fought on 3 August 1692, Steenkirk was a French victory during the Nine Years War (1689-1697). This work depicts Colonel Sir Robert Douglas of the Royal Regiment (later the Royal Scots) running through a French officer with his sword.
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And that's the whole story:: ...
"Douglas led his regiment through the first three hedges, and in the fierce fighting around the fourth hedge, during which the superior force of French were driven from their guns, he became aware that one of the battalion's colours was in the possession of the enemy on the other side of the hedge. He leapt through a gap, killed the French officer holding the colour, and threw it back over the hedge to his own men. While attempting to return through the gap, he was shot dead by a French marksman."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sir_Robert_Douglas,_3rd_Baronet_(died_1692)
(English version, the only one that's available on Wiki)
Primitive. That's why many people don't like the Brits. Whenever possible they sweep their own defeats under the carpet and when they can’t do that they choose to represent some "heroic" - true or invented, but even when true actually meaningless - single event to celebrate their imagined "superiority". To always disrespect and belittle the enemy - even when he's victorious - and to not acknowledge his performance is not only a sign of disgusting arrogance, it's a shameful lack of honour.
BTW, the French drum on the ground is of Napoleonic style ...
The sort of concoction that should rather remain in the shelves ...
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