"not bloody Likely!!" (1 Viewer)

[hsm]

that famous, english response, is quoted as a response to the request for surrender in what battle.

there were hardly any survivors....

Grant

 

[Currahee Chris]

Outta my depths here but I will say something either Zulu era or WW2 Pacific

 

[lancer]

With all the small wars Britain has fought over the centuries, this is a tough one. Now, I would assume that there would have been no surrendering in the many native wars so I am guessing maybe the 2nd Boer War, at one of the sieges; Mafeking, Ladysmith, or Kimberley. -- Al

 

[Scott]

Daniel Dravot: You are going to become soldiers. A soldier does not think. He only obeys. Do you really think that if a soldier thought twice he'd give his life for queen and country? Not bloody likely.

"The Man Who Would Be King" (1975)

 

[Napoleon1er]

Maybe First Afgan War?

 

[trooper]

12th January 1842 during the retreat from Kabul the Afghans called on the few survivors to surrender. A British NCO gave the quoted reply. Of the few survivors Dr. Brydon was the most famous.

 

[johnnybach]

Trick question

It's the reply given by Sharpe to the question by Patrick;

" 'Ere Sharpie, are you gonna get the beers in - or what?

johnnybach.

 

[OzDigger]

that famous, english response, is quoted as a response to the request for surrender in what battle.

there were hardly any survivors....

Grant

The last stand at 'Gandamak Pass', Afghanistan, January 12, 1842 being the remainder of the troops originally under the command of the inept Major General William Elphinstone.

 

[hsm]

The last stand at 'Gandamak Pass', Afghanistan, January 12, 1842 being the remainder of the troops originally under the command of the inept Major General William Elphinstone.

Right Bloody on!! I recommend plugging in Elphinstones name into google- and have a read of the wikipedia article-yikes!! What a S@*t PUMP!! (I use this language, having been subject to all sorts of Officers through out my career)
For background I would hazard that Sean Connery's character from "The Man Who Would be King" is a survivor of this battle....as Kiplings poems hint towards it at times.
Grant