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Einstein has to be wrong.

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Einstein has to be wrong.

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Einstein has to be wrong.

Physicists say that time, on earth, is a constant, but somehow Monday�s come faster and stay longer than any other day of the week.

Today�s question deals with a wooden hand. Year, April, 1863, in Mexico. The score was six hundred horsed cavalry plus an additional two hundred dismounted ground, plus three battalions of new ground troops verses sixty two ground troops. Given the opportunity to surrender three times and refused, with ultimately with no cartridges in their pouches, no water, and no food, these sixty two men held on for twelve hours until only five were left. When the fighting was ordered stopped (by the victors) they were charging, not falling back. One of the men who fell that day was a Captain who had a wooden hand. When this was recovered it was made into a relic and is paraded each year, and celebrated across all service locations as a symbol of rededication.

Stars for today.

Who was the man? What was the name of the battle? Who parades the relic each year?

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In What is now Mexico, or what was Mexico then? Remember the -----!

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Dale Lenz

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DAN will know YOUR answer, : ' >. Thanks for the question on the longest day of the week.

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Nicely done

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Mexico then, but think then

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Monday trivia answer

Dale gets a star!

The man was Captain (Capitaine) Danjou of the French Foreign Legion. He was one of three officers who volunteered and 62 men assigned to protect a bullion shipment meant for other French troops in support of Emporer Maximilian the puppet ruler of Napolean III at Puebla, Mexico. (The French remained still a little ticked about the loss to the British of the north and the sale of the Lousiana Purchase and didn�t want all presence in North America to go away.)

Anyway, fighting from the early morning, Danjou fell about noon on that day and was not one of the five still capable of standing at the end about 6:00 PM. His wooden hand was retrieved after the battle.

The battle was Camerone (also Cameron). Although there are several versions of the battle, none of them dispute the fact that mass of the opposing force caused the loss of the Legionaires not lack of tenacity, courage, or bravery. In that battle Mexico had about 800 casualties, 300 dead, with seasoned troops and repeating arms, versus the single shot French pieces. The French had 39 dead, 23 seriously wounded (that�s �seriously wounded� by French Foreign Legion standards, which is a bit higher standard than most organizations), and of those, sixteen eventually survived. All of the French officers were dead or died. Most of those surviving, at minimum, lost part of their hearing from the noise that day.

Today, The Legion which is still a world class elite, if brutal and secretive force, celebrates the courage of those men April 30 every year at all outposts of the Legion even if under fire. It remains a very big deal.

�Camerone� typed in any browser will get the story. A picture of the hand in the glass case can be found on page 56 of The French Foreign Legion by John Robert Young, (1984). It is small and does not photograph or scan decently. You may not appreciate the language used but check out http://www.badassoftheweek.com/danjou.html That site tells its version and shows the hand and the case.

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