The Wonderful Adventures of His Majesty's Army in Michmas (my word!)
As promised yesterday, a cool story about Michmas: Michmas, as we know, was the place where Yehonatan, son of King Shaul, nearly-single-handedly defeated a legion of Plishti soliders ( Shmuel 1:13:16-14:15 ). Many millennia later, another army found victory there, echoing back to the same tactic victoriously wielded by Yehonatan and his arms-bearer. As recounted by Major Vivian Gilbert in " The Romance of the Last Crusade: with Allenby to Jerusalem ", ch. XIII (pg. 180-186): "The first things we bought after the capture of Jerusalem were Bibles and matches. We had recently received a welcome issue of army cigarettes from the base, but the army service corps forgot to send up matches. We used the Bibles as guidebooks to Palestine, and remarkably fine ones they turned out to be! It was wonderfully interesting to read the history of all the places we were visiting daily, and men in the ranks were as keen as the officers. It was no uncommon sight to come across cockney sol...