ByteOnBikes to People [email protected] • 11 days agoUS Military never really trained for these types of dog and pony showsdiscuss.onlineimagemessage-square291fedilinkarrow-up11.16K
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minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink5•11 days agoWild first point but we’ll ignore it. What is the collapsing bridge incident?
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish10•edit-211 days agoIt’s common knowledge that soldiers don’t walk in unison on bridges. It dates back to 1831. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broughton_Suspension_Bridge Same thing happened in France twenty years later: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angers_Bridge It also postponed the opening of a bridge in London by two years in 2000: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Millennium_Bridge,_London
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish2•11 days agoLondon Bridge falling down, falling down, falling down?
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish3•11 days agoI think this is what they are referring to: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broughton_Suspension_Bridge. TL;DR: The bridge collapsed because soldiers marching on it created force they hadn’t anticipated, soldiers breaking step supposedly don’t have as much of an impact.
Wild first point but we’ll ignore it.
What is the collapsing bridge incident?
It’s common knowledge that soldiers don’t walk in unison on bridges. It dates back to 1831.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broughton_Suspension_Bridge
Same thing happened in France twenty years later:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angers_Bridge
It also postponed the opening of a bridge in London by two years in 2000:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Millennium_Bridge,_London
London Bridge falling down, falling down, falling down?
I think this is what they are referring to: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broughton_Suspension_Bridge.
TL;DR: The bridge collapsed because soldiers marching on it created force they hadn’t anticipated, soldiers breaking step supposedly don’t have as much of an impact.