Name: 魚谷之戰與 "白蘭地"。需要引用 8x01 (The Battle of Fishguard and "Brandy": Citation Needed 8x01)
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This is the Technical Difficulties, we're playing Citation Needed.

Joining me today, he reads books y'know, it's Chris Joel.

Everybody's favourite Gary Brannan, Gary Brannan.

And the bounciest man on the internet, Matt Gray.

Please use the nearest toilets on the other side of the concourse.

In front of me I've got an article from Wikipedia and these folks can't see it.

Every fact they get right is a point and a ding.

And there's a special prize for particularly good answers which is...

And today we are talking about the Battle of Fishguard.

Yes, they hold it in their little... hands.

I meant the battlers, what are they called, warriors? Let's call them warriors.

Were they warriors holding up fish as shields, the Fishguard?

What, like a flatfish and then a swordfish in the other hand?

Squelching your way forward and making a…

No, is the answer to all of that, I'll just shut that down immediately.

Yes, yeah, I learnt it in a Beano annual.

Well, there we go, we all have different routes to education(!)

Yeah, well you'll say at the end, "that taught me a lesson."

The Fishguard is as place in Wales and this is where the battle took place.

They named the battle after where it happened,

unlike all the other battle naming conventions, which were a good 50 miles away.

Yeah, it's like in World War 2 when they switched the road signs round.

That's a fair point, Battle and actual site of the Battle of Hastings is debatable for instance.

Battle of Waterloo, you can see the remains in Waterloo Station to this day.

That's true, you wouldn't have thought they'd have it so close to London, would you?

It's just a Friday night before Christmas and everyone's trying to get north, it's just…

-They've turned, they've turned. -It's a poor audience.

This was a battle in Fishguard, who might have been attacking and when?

-I was going to go for trawlermen, yeah. -Yeah.

Oh no, no, it's a little early for trawlers.

So it wasn't an uprising, oh, was it Vikings?

So it's somewhere between Vikings and the advent of modern fishing.

Well, using my extensive historical knowledge…

-What! -That was the only other time period I know.

No, it's… it's much later, this was during the War of the First Coalition.

Well, is that...  political joke incoming,

This was 1792 to 1797, who might Britain have been battling then?

Tom, does the wheel spin and land, as it does 50% of the time, on France?

This was an attempt to land a force of French troops in Britain

So where might have been the primary attack force headed?

Because Wales, boat wise, is on the way to Ireland, isn't it?

Well, because if you're boating from the France bit,

you get to the Wales bit before you get to the Ireland bit, don't you?

If you're coming the right, top right bit of France?

-He's… he's not wrong. -It often depends

on which direction you're heading, I suppose, doesn't it, yeah.

-The top left. -No, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

So what was this invasion force intended to do?

This was a third attempt at invasion, why did some of the earlier ones fail?

That's what you get for having beans on the journey.

So the Wales-bound invasion force, 1400 troops from the Black Legion.

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魚谷之戰與 "白蘭地"。需要引用 8x01 (The Battle of Fishguard and "Brandy": Citation Needed 8x01)

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