New Posts For Thread: Why did the British wear red coats in battle?https://community.betfair.com/chit_chat/go/thread/view/94038/29133801/why-did-the-british-wear-red-coats-in-battleelvis on moon?During the recent royal wedding, the millions around the world saw that Prince William chose to wear a uniform that included the famous British "red coat." Many people have asked, "Why did the British wear red coats in battle?"A long tiI tried saying that. I came round on the floor with a bump on my head!https://community.betfair.com/chit_chat/go/thread/view/94038/29133801/why-did-the-british-wear-red-coats-in-battle?post_id=520108079#520108079I tried saying that. I came round on the floor with a bump on my head!Sat, 26 May 2012 16:26:23 -0500Think how many typewriter ribbons he got through when communicating with the Donau­dampfschiffahrts­elektrizitäten­hauptbetriebswerk­bauunterbeamten­gesellschafthttps://community.betfair.com/chit_chat/go/thread/view/94038/29133801/why-did-the-british-wear-red-coats-in-battle?post_id=520095841#520095841Think how many typewriter ribbons he got through when communicating with the Donau­dampfschiffahrts­elektrizitäten­hauptbetriebswerk­bauunterbeamten­gesellschaftSat, 26 May 2012 11:31:31 -0500Donaudampfschifffahrtsgesellschaftskapitänhttps://community.betfair.com/chit_chat/go/thread/view/94038/29133801/why-did-the-british-wear-red-coats-in-battle?post_id=520083933#520083933DonaudampfschifffahrtsgesellschaftskapitänSat, 26 May 2012 04:56:40 -0500Bloody Hell, Erse. I'm going to have Google that! At half past five in the morning, too.https://community.betfair.com/chit_chat/go/thread/view/94038/29133801/why-did-the-british-wear-red-coats-in-battle?post_id=520081847#520081847Bloody Hell, Erse. I'm going to have Google that! At half past five in the morning, too.Sat, 26 May 2012 02:41:58 -0500think of all the typos there would be though, with all those concatenated german words.https://community.betfair.com/chit_chat/go/thread/view/94038/29133801/why-did-the-british-wear-red-coats-in-battle?post_id=520079259#520079259think of all the typos there would be though, with all those concatenated german words.Fri, 25 May 2012 23:38:48 -0500Sometimes I wonder if the present would be much different if Germany had won. Better BBQ sausages, no gypsies selling lucky heather as you go to the Derby, a bank holiday on Hitler's birthday. A lack of Woody Allen movies. No Israel-Palestine problhttps://community.betfair.com/chit_chat/go/thread/view/94038/29133801/why-did-the-british-wear-red-coats-in-battle?post_id=520074709#520074709Sometimes I wonder if the present would be much different if Germany had won. Better BBQ sausages, no gypsies selling lucky heather as you go to the Derby, a bank holiday on Hitler's birthday. A lack of Woody Allen movies. No Israel-Palestine problFri, 25 May 2012 19:25:27 -0500Ah, now that was a vital British invention, bodil, I'll grant you: a compact, portable, short-wave centimetric radar that enabled you to "see" a surfaced U-boat, even at night.If you accept that the Battle of the Atlantic was the one campaign which mhttps://community.betfair.com/chit_chat/go/thread/view/94038/29133801/why-did-the-british-wear-red-coats-in-battle?post_id=520074475#520074475Ah, now that was a vital British invention, bodil, I'll grant you: a compact, portable, short-wave centimetric radar that enabled you to "see" a surfaced U-boat, even at night.If you accept that the Battle of the Atlantic was the one campaign which mFri, 25 May 2012 19:12:43 -0500Cavity magnetron, sfbw?https://community.betfair.com/chit_chat/go/thread/view/94038/29133801/why-did-the-british-wear-red-coats-in-battle?post_id=520074331#520074331Cavity magnetron, sfbw?Fri, 25 May 2012 19:04:17 -0500So many strands. Red coats said we are here and look out. OK until you met a sneaky guerilla enemy. French great fighters - no fun living next to Germany (anything to avoid another Verdun?). We sort of won WW2 due to superior intelligence, heavy bhttps://community.betfair.com/chit_chat/go/thread/view/94038/29133801/why-did-the-british-wear-red-coats-in-battle?post_id=520074183#520074183So many strands. Red coats said we are here and look out. OK until you met a sneaky guerilla enemy. French great fighters - no fun living next to Germany (anything to avoid another Verdun?). We sort of won WW2 due to superior intelligence, heavy bFri, 25 May 2012 18:57:00 -0500Also, it's no more than a popular British myth that radar was a British invention. During the '30s scientists in Germany, France, the US and the UK all independently discovered that very short pulses, when reflected off a target back to a cathode tubhttps://community.betfair.com/chit_chat/go/thread/view/94038/29133801/why-did-the-british-wear-red-coats-in-battle?post_id=520074007#520074007Also, it's no more than a popular British myth that radar was a British invention. During the '30s scientists in Germany, France, the US and the UK all independently discovered that very short pulses, when reflected off a target back to a cathode tubFri, 25 May 2012 18:49:45 -0500