> Behalf Of Gautam Mukunda > Well, I hope not, anyways, but the mistake was too amusing for me _not_ to > post. > > http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A28165-2002Feb18.html > > GIBRALTAR �� The British military apologized Monday for invading Spain over the weekend � by mistake.
About 20 Royal Marines went slightly off course in an amphibious exercise and stormed a Spanish beach Sunday morning near the British colony of Gibraltar, a British Defense Ministry spokesman said. ======================= You'd think that, 87 years after the landings at Gallipoli, where the Royal Navy put the Australian troops ashore at least one mile away from the correct beach on 25 April 1915, and then on 7/8 August 1915 they put 3 British divisions into the wrong landing area at nearby Suvla Bay... I spose what it really is is a British Naval Tradition. And Gibraltar of all places!!!!! How to really gruntle the Spanish. Brett
