[sci.military] Impossible Victories

dxb105@csc.anu.oz (12/15/89)

From: dxb105@csc.anu.oz
> In article <11823@cbnews.ATT.COM> wrf@mab.ecse.rpi.edu (Wm Randolph Franklin) writes:
>>It would be interesting to compile  a  list of battles that  were won by
>>one side doing  something the  other thought  was physically impossible.

I've always been impressed by the Turks bringing their navy overland into the
Sea of Marmora, at the seige of Constantinople. And didn't the Israelis use
bulldozers to scale the Golan heights, in 1967?
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