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The Angels of Mons
At the start of the First World War, during the Battle of Mons on August 23, 1914, rumours arose and took root of a heavenly host of angels, armed with bows and arrows, that came to the rescue of the heavily outnumbered British soldiers. Veterans of the battle were reputed to have talked of St George and the ghostly Bowmen of Mons. This brief success – at a heavy cost in casualties on the British side – might have been viewed as miraculous in itself. However, that was not the reason that the engagement known as the Battle of Mons achieved lasting fame. In a very short space of time after the battle, publications were claiming the British Army’s achievement was due to divine intervention in the form of heavenly beings who would later become identified as “The Angels of Mons”.
Did such stories of armed angels really happen, or did the slaughter of WWI soldiers at Mons bring about hallucinations, owing to the survival of some against overwhelming odds? Or were the thoughts of these English survivalist soldiers of WWI taken back to the battles of Crécy (1346), Poitiers (1356), or Agincourt (1415), to name but a few. Where the Welsh Longbow men saved the day, for the English armies against the French.
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Jero Jones
Article URL : https://breakingnewsandreligion.online/discuss/