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When I first read that, I set the book down because Bernard Cornwell had been portraying the Spanish as almost cartoonishly cowardly and this was too much for me to stomach. But that is exactly what happened:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Talavera#Preliminary_movements …
There are some cases of military incompetence that are so ridiculous that people have a hard time believing them. The Mexicans really did lose the Battle of San Jacinto because they took a giant siesta and forgot to post sentries.
At the Battle of Karánsebes, an argument turned into an army-wide scrap where thousands of people died and the Austrian army defeated itself. They ended up retreating.
Ben Franklin writes about the time the British Army contracted him to supply provisions, and when he offered an Indian guide to help them defend against ambushes by French-allied Indian tribes, the British commander arrogantly refused, because redman bad.
Oh and then the British army got massacred completely.
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