ByteOnBikes@discuss.online to People Twitter@sh.itjust.works · 14 hours agoUS Military never really trained for these types of dog and pony showsdiscuss.onlineimagemessage-square167fedilinkarrow-up1813arrow-down117file-text
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minus-squareWoht24@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up5·8 hours agoWild first point but we’ll ignore it. What is the collapsing bridge incident?
minus-squarebstix@feddit.dklinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up10·edit-28 hours 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/Broughton_Suspension_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-squareVegOwOtenks@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·8 hours 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.
minus-squaresamus12345@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·8 hours agoLondon Bridge falling down, falling down, falling down?
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/Broughton_Suspension_Bridge
It also postponed the opening of a bridge in London by two years in 2000:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Millennium_Bridge,_London
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.
London Bridge falling down, falling down, falling down?