Good choices.

OK: now i'll choose by Wars: Starting back to the 16th-17th Centuries.

The movie Horation Hornblower with Gregory Peck as Captain Hornblower:

My favorite scene in that movie was after Capt Hornblower, hes exect officer and Quist, had been caught and imprisoned at a French seaside fort--after shooting up all French Ships of the Line--they found in a harbor.

Then they were taken to a stagecoach to be taken elsewhere and they manage to escape. They then find their way to another Frence seaport and follow three Dutch Navy Officers into a Tavern--where they proceed to beat them up (You only hears the sounds) and they steal "borrow" their uniforms.

Pre Revolutionary War:

In the movie: Rogers Rangers w/ Spencer Tracy, Robert Young and Walter Brennan. Loved the great attack scenes that Rogers Rangers made on the Abanacki Indian village.

In Allegheny Uprising: W/ John Wayne, Claire Trevor, George Saunders. The courtmarschal trial scenes of John Wayne. All the spoken parts and when Claire Travor has to show the courtroon an example of powderflares/burns by taking a white shirt and firing at it twich to prove a point.

Drums Along The Mohawk is another alltime fav as well as one with Henry Fonda in it--which the name escapes me at the moment. In both movies--when the Indians surrong the Forts--the fighting scenes are unbeatable.

Pre-War fo 1812:

In Shores of Tripoli: W/ John PAYNE--as a US MArine Lieutenant on board a US NAvy ship. His sneak attack on an Arab fort with a few others were excellent.

The War of 1812:

The Buccaneer: with Charlton Heston as General Andy Jackson and a then with black hair, Yul Brenner as the Pirate: Jean LeFitte, the battle scenes at or near New Orleans--especially with the British firing their rockets.

The Crimean War: Charge of the Light Brigade: W/ Errol Flynn, and David Niven. The Arab siege of Chakoti and the final charge of the 17th Lancers against Russian Cannon at Balaclava.

"Cannon to the right of them, cannon to the left of them, onward rode the 600."

The Civil War: Tho I like others better--I think the best fighting scenes were in the movie Gettysburg--where Gen Chamberlain was fighting on the hill trying to keep the Confederates from overrunning the Union positions.

Post Civil War Indian Wars:

They Died With Their Boots On. Errol Flynn as Gen Geo Armstrong Custer. Loved the Last Stand fighting.

Spanish American War: Rough Riders--with Teddy Roosevelt leading the Rough Riders up San juan Hill. T.R. played by Tom Berringer.

WW1:

The Fighting 69th w/ James Cagney. The scenes where he is firing a mortar by himself just before he gets fatally wounded.

The Lost Battalion: W/ Rick Schreder as the Major in command of the Lost Battalion. The first fighting scenes when they get lost in the woods--where he really startsd learning how to lead his Battalion.

WW2:

Where Eagles Dare: Scene where Leutnant Schafer (Clint Eastwood) is standing at the top of some stairs and surprises the German Soldiers who are charging up the stairs. He is using his MP-38/50.

Korean War: Pork Chop Hill: Gregory Pecks leadership throuout the full movie--especially when they are first coming up that hill and start attacking the first chicom trenches.

Vietnam War: Full Metal Jacket. The scenes in which just after 8 ball gets shot by the female sniper--when they cut loose with a "Mad minute" on the buildings where they thing the sniper is.

Modern Wars: Black Hawk Down: The scenes where Sergeant Strucker is leading the column of HumVees through Mogadishu--and through the ambushes.

Just my 2 cents worth. [img]smile.gif[/img]

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