they did make a much larger dent in the enemy forces than they had any right to with being that badly outnumbered. Point still stands though, a small group fought against odds which would have made many people flee in terror or just give up, and while it was a foregone conclusion they weren't going to win. Was this true bravery, or simple desperation in the knowledge that it would essentially mean their extermination and all that they knew and cherished would be gone? One could argue, they are one and the same anyways. except, at the very start, the first few attacks, either no one knew, or thought it was "someone else's problem".ĭespite it being such a one sided battle though, they really did give it their all though. We think now about WW2 and how it was a huge deal that everyone knew about it. They really were screwed from the start, and as was stated in the song, "A war unknown to the world General CommentThe actual, official ratio for the battle in question, was closer to 66:1, not 40:1.
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