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Mais oui; he even managed a good, and novel, result in geometry!

(in those days, I understand the process of selecting which branch of the military an officer candidate was best suited for consisted of asking them what "2+2" might be.

If they answer "4", artillery.

If they first count on their fingers under the table, and then answer "4", infantry.

If they yell "3" while slamming their fist on the table before one even gets to the "might be" part of the question, cavalry.)

[vinnyvichy]

https://youtu.be/WYYOlIvs3fU

Non Greek viewers might mistake that for teutonic infantry but its probably actually just Ἱερὸς Λόχος reenactment outfits

[vinnyvichy]

See the following for a patch

(Suchet volunteered for the cavalry, so that takes him out of the rubric, I suppose!)

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Horst Poller: Bewältigte Vergangenheit. Das 20. Jahrhundert, erlebt, erlitten, gestaltet. Verlag Olzog, 2010

[vinnyvichy]

Preceding pages: Seydlitz familiar recurrence

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walther_von_Seydlitz-Kurzbac...

>A few days later, Seydlitz fled the German lines under fire from his own side with a group of other officers

Another virtuoso in disobedience!