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* In one time during the Battle of Waterloo, Cavalier Mercer, commanding a battery of British Horse Artillery, cheered his men's morale by exchanging insults with a French skirmisher.
* If you think of it, some of [[Winston Churchill]]'s most famous speeches were to some degree a high-class form of trash-talk.
^ A rather gruesome example was given during the prelude to the [[World War 2|Iwo Jima and Okinawa landings]] where the carrier force swept close to Japan in a preliminary blow, rather like a boxer's left jab. On one of the missions a cartoon was written with a caricature of Emperor Hirohito leading his people to disaster, and below, ominously, was written,"The companion to war is disease."
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