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Trevor Collins

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The Story of How An Army of Angels Helped Turn the Tide of a World War I Battle | Angels of Mons

That's a good point.

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The Story of How An Army of Angels Helped Turn the Tide of a World War I Battle | Angels of Mons

So here we are now, just a month after the Battle of Mons, and I'm going to give you straight up what we understand, what we know factually, rather than baiting you into the idea of what's real, what's not.

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The Story of How An Army of Angels Helped Turn the Tide of a World War I Battle | Angels of Mons

So here's the story.

Red Web
The Story of How An Army of Angels Helped Turn the Tide of a World War I Battle | Angels of Mons

On September 29th, 1914, a Welsh author named Arthur Macken published a short story titled The Bowman.

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The Story of How An Army of Angels Helped Turn the Tide of a World War I Battle | Angels of Mons

In the Evening News, which was a London newspaper at the time, he set his story during a retreat from the Battle of Mons.

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The Story of How An Army of Angels Helped Turn the Tide of a World War I Battle | Angels of Mons

So a very specific choice to pick a very real event.

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The Story of How An Army of Angels Helped Turn the Tide of a World War I Battle | Angels of Mons

In his work, he wrote that English soldiers called upon St.

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The Story of How An Army of Angels Helped Turn the Tide of a World War I Battle | Angels of Mons

George for help as they were being attacked.

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The Story of How An Army of Angels Helped Turn the Tide of a World War I Battle | Angels of Mons

This is where I give you an illustration, an image of what this scene might have looked like based on the description of this story.

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The Story of How An Army of Angels Helped Turn the Tide of a World War I Battle | Angels of Mons

So I'll let you kind of open that up and you'll see the bowman that I'm talking about, but I'll let you describe the scene you see.

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The Story of How An Army of Angels Helped Turn the Tide of a World War I Battle | Angels of Mons

yeah whoa now look at what they're wearing how i don't know what those hats are called yeah they look like there's uh safari hats yeah kind of like you know the hunter and jumanji oh i was just gonna say it yeah yeah you were reading my brain we're making such terrible metaphor comparisons here millennials are like i get all this yeah yeah we're a show for millennials and moms

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The Story of How An Army of Angels Helped Turn the Tide of a World War I Battle | Angels of Mons

Listen, that's kind of what I'm seeing.

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The Story of How An Army of Angels Helped Turn the Tide of a World War I Battle | Angels of Mons

We'll describe those outfits a little bit much more specifically, actually, and where they come from.

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The Story of How An Army of Angels Helped Turn the Tide of a World War I Battle | Angels of Mons

This is like old British.

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The Story of How An Army of Angels Helped Turn the Tide of a World War I Battle | Angels of Mons

Yeah.

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The Story of How An Army of Angels Helped Turn the Tide of a World War I Battle | Angels of Mons

Yeah, absolutely.

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The Story of How An Army of Angels Helped Turn the Tide of a World War I Battle | Angels of Mons

Yeah.

Red Web
The Story of How An Army of Angels Helped Turn the Tide of a World War I Battle | Angels of Mons

Pretty much right on the head of the nail there.

Red Web
The Story of How An Army of Angels Helped Turn the Tide of a World War I Battle | Angels of Mons

So this is a visual as like the story unfolds.

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The Story of How An Army of Angels Helped Turn the Tide of a World War I Battle | Angels of Mons

This is what kind of the visual was made for.