SC - important date-
James F. Johnson
seumas at mind.net
Fri Oct 27 16:03:25 PDT 2000
What? Stefan, no referrals to a Florilegium file? Such as:
underwear-msg
silk-msg,
p-hygiene-msg
p-privies-msg
:)
Seumas
Stefan li Rous wrote:
>
> Lainie said:
> > Yeah- so? Are you going to suggest that Henry wasn't wearing clean
> > underpants at Agincourt? Never go out without, says Aunty, 'cause you
> > never know when you might get run over by a marauding French army, and
> > wouldn't you be embarrassed at the hospital!
>
> Well, this is a bit off of cooking, too. But I thought it was interesting
> years ago and I understand it more as I research the Middle Ages, when
> I found out that Santa Anna, the Mexican dictator was identified and
> captured by his underwear. After his disasterous (for him) defeat by
> the Texans at the battle of San Jacinto, he tried to escape by disguising
> himself in the clothes of a regular soldier and slipping away. Sort of
> like some medieval kings and nobles were said to have done. However,
> when the Texans captured him, they found that he was wearing silk underwear.
> Which wasn't what the regular soldier was wearing. I guess he could part
> with the fancy outer duds but not that. Had he gotten back to Mexico
> and raised another army history might have been different.
>
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> Mark S. Harris Austin, Texas stefan at texas.net
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