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Media Review Badhistory TV-series review: 1864 (Denmark, 2014),
episode 1 - 5, or: Austria cannot into Slesvig (self.badhistory)
submitted 2 kuukautta sitten * by Astrogator The Gauls were just appropriating Roman culture
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17.2.2015 19:49
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As for the battlefield, the Prussian attack came along the Eckernförde-Schleswig road, the Danish fortifications lying astride the narrowest point of the Missunde peninsula which is hardly 350 m across at that point; and also across a frozen, narrow arm of the Schlei cutting into the peninsula southeast of the Danish fortifications. The road at that point runs alongside a lake through a forested valley. The whole affair
was in effect also more of a reconnaisance in force, with none of the Prussian units reaching the redoubts, and certainly no massed infantry attack. Also, the battlefield was criss-crossed by Knicks, thick hedges that marked the edge of a field, a bit like the famous French bocage. The units were pulled back after it became clear that Prussian artillery had had little effect (probably due to low visibility) and an infantry attack was not promising success. Correspondingly, losses were light on both sides. This is how it looks like in the series. The whole thing was
mainly an artillery duel, with none of the Prussian forces actually attacking the redoubts en masse. Here, there are dead Prussians flying through the air everwhere. Prussian losses were
light at 33 killed and 152 wounded, hardly the massacre depicted on screen. Our heroes from 8. Brigade survey the whole affair first shocked, then amazed, from a vantage point that would put them smack in the middle of the village of Missunde, of which we get to see nothing here. [
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