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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
And Christian, I'm going to hold you with the Tolkien knowledge until later on, but listen, I've got Tolkien all over my shelf.
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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
I want to know the answer if he was inspired by this story, but we'll dive into that in a second.
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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 the origins of the Angels of Mons, this legend, it dates back to August 23rd, 1914.
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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
And on this day, the British army had its first involvement in World War I. This was 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
And this battle was one of a series of battles.
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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
I'm going to do a lot of history truncation, but if you find this interesting, there is a lot to explore.
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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 was one of the many battles that kind of was called the Battle of the Frontiers.
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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
If you like history, go read about it.
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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
It is so
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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
And obviously, you know, we are on the precipice of the Great War, the war to end all wars.
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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 know now with history, it wasn't the case, but that's the energy.
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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 the palpable energy we're talking about as we step into this fray.
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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
And the British deployed what they called their British Expeditionary Force.
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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
I'll call them the BEF.
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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
which was comprised of a small British army.
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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
And in total, it had six infantry divisions.
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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
And in this battle, they had one of their total five cavalry brigades.
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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
The BEF also had a very small army.
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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 to give you an idea, estimates range, but let's just average it out to about 80,000 people on the BEF.
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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
Whereas the German Empire itself, as well as the French,