You have to admit, the man had style.
Quote from: Cain on January 25, 2013, 04:23:57 PM
You have to admit, the man had style.
He also had HUGE BRASS BALLS.
What he DIDN'T have:
1. Any sense of self-preservation or concern for his troops.
2. Frontal lobes.
3. Artillery.
When
Kitchener has to show up and show folks how it's done, ya done fucked up.
This is true.
However, he did stop the Darfur insurgency by riding into the enemy camp and giving them a stern talking to.
Also, his religious beliefs are amazing:
QuoteHe was an eccentric who believed among other things that the Earth was enclosed in a hollow sphere with God's throne directly above the altar of the Temple in Jerusalem, the Devil inhabiting the opposite point of the globe near Pitcairn Island in the Pacific. He also believed that the Garden of Eden was on the island of Praslin in the Seychelles.
How did he come to those conclusions?
Upper class Victorian Army officer. He doesn't need reasoning, he has eccentricity.
Ah eccentricity. The state of being wealthy enough that people cant bring themselves to call you the weird lunatic that you actually are. Its endearing and cute oddness.
Fitting perhaps, that Charlton Heston played him in Khartoum.