If time travel was doable...

[Colin_Fraser]

A recent FB post from a friend made me think about this question. We may have done this before but not recently I think.

If time travel was possible and you could go back and observe any day in history with no language barrier and no ability to affect outcome, where and when would you go?

For me, a no brainer......

July 20, 1944 to see what really went wrong....e.g. why did Stauffenberg not use both of his two bombs and did Brandt really move the briefcase?

Colin

 

[Uruk-Hai]

A recent FB post from a friend made me think about this question. We may have done this before but not recently I think.

If time travel was possible and you could go back and observe any day in history with no language barrier and no ability to affect outcome, where and when would you go?

For me, a no brainer......

July 20, 1944 to see what really went wrong....e.g. why did Stauffenberg not use both of his two bombs and did Brandt really move the briefcase?

Colin

On the other hand it was far better for the Allied to have Hitler intervening all the time.

I would like to see what really took place at Malmeedy.

And to see if the battle of Bråvalla is myth or real.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Brávellir

And of course Maldon and Stamford Bridge.

It would also be nice to see how the monks provoked the vikings at Lindisfarne so they finally lost it and attacked them.

Cheers
Janne Nilsson

 

[Paul Kernan]

So many.....Quadash, Thermopalyae, Waterloo, Culloden, Rorke's Drift and did John Wayne stand and fight or run away at the Alamo

 

[Nap]

Colin,

Good thread

So many indeed but .......

Paris at the height of the Terror ..truely a world changing period of history for France especially ....me being safe of course!

Oh and also to be on the retreat from Moscow and also from Mons to see the horror and futility of war .

Nap

 

[billyturnip]

I'd like to stand with the Old Guard at Waterloo, 18th June 1815... just to see what flag they were carrying.

Roger.

 

[Rich Sculpts]

1 May 1851 - the opening day of the Great Exhibition in The Crystal Palace. I'd get to see Queen Vic and see all the "high tech" stuff of the day. It would also be rather nice to walk the streets of London at the height of Dickensian England.

Not a bad day out really...



-Rich

 

[DEL]

1 May 1851 - t It would also be rather nice to walk the streets of London at the height of Dickensian England.

Not a bad day out really...

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-Rich

Interesting career choice

 

[BarrieHynd]

July 1991, that's the day I walked out the front gates at Ballykinler and my military career was over (apart from colour service).
If I could go back to then, I would quickly about turn and get back in through the gates and into the QM's to get my kit back.

Barrie.

 

[ChaosCossack]

Wow, this isn't as easy as it might seem. So many events I would like to know...
Battle of Quebec, Borodino, Waterloo (can you imagine the sight of the Allied squares and 10000 French horse thundering over the ridge?!?!), sailing a Norse longship and a personal one for me... to live and ride with the Zaporozhians through the 16 and 1700's. I always thought I was born a few hundred years too late, my personality never seemed to suit the modern world

Great thread Colin

The other Colin

 

[Rich Sculpts]

Interesting career choice

I would have to work "flat out" to make any money

 

[housecarl]

July 1991, that's the day I walked out the front gates at Ballykinler and my military career was over (apart from colour service).
If I could go back to then, I would quickly about turn and get back in through the gates and into the QM's to get my kit back.

Barrie.

Welcome back, you're working the weekend.

 

[DEL]

I would have to work "flat out" to make any money

 

[billyturnip]

Tower of London 1483, who really was responsible for the deaths of the Prince's in the Tower? Whitechapel, London again, 1888, who was Jack the Ripper? Two mysteries I would love to know the answers to. Roger.

 

[Rich Sculpts]

London again, 1888, who was Jack the Ripper?

With my interesting change of career I think I will pass on that one

 

[billyturnip]

With my interesting change of career I think I will pass on that one

Something to hide????

 

[Rich Sculpts]

Something to hide????

Del pushed me into it, I was up for a quiet walk down Regent Street

 

[Paul Kernan]

Like Colin I mentioned Waterloo for the experience of a Napoleonic cavalry charge but what it must also have been like to be with the Light Brigade at Balaclava or Polish Husaria against the Turks or Cossacks (sorry Colin). Again TOO many to choose from.

 

[megroot]

1 May 1851 - the opening day of the Great Exhibition in The Crystal Palace. I'd get to see Queen Vic and see all the "high tech" stuff of the day. It would also be rather nice to walk the streets of London at the height of Dickensian England.

Not a bad day out really...

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-Rich

Whas there 3 years ago at the campingsite. Not much more left of this great palace.

Marc

 

[megroot]

Dinosaures, First **** erectus for shaking hands, Walking together with Jesus, Traveling with Hannibal, Malta on the high times at the cruisades, French Revolution, The Napoleontic wars, WW 1. No more no less.

Marc

 

[Colin_Fraser]

I thought about some of the great cavalry charges of history too including Alexander at the Granicus or Arbela, or Balaklava, but I think I am too soft to see the horses suffering....perversely not so much the men