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* ImpromptuFortress: The original and its various remakes commit themselves entirely to this trope. In the first iteration alone, advised places to fortify range from river crossings to hillside villages to riverbeds - with varying degrees of success.
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* WonTheWarLostThePeace: Dream No. 5 ends like this. Using the previous four dreams and their "lessons", BF manages to hold his position and not a single of his men gets killed or even wounded despite the fierce skirmish... but the Boers managed to cross the river, thus making him fail his only objective: preventing them from doing just that.
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* WonTheWarLostThePeace: WonTheWarLostThePeace:
** Dream No. 5 ends like this. Using the previous four dreams and their "lessons", BF manages to hold his position and not a single of his men gets killed or even wounded despite the fierce skirmish... but the Boers managed to cross the river, thus making him fail his only objective: preventing them from doing justthat.that.
** ''The Defense of Jisr Al Doreaa'' makes it far more literal. Dream No. 5 is a perfectly executed initial defense, followed by a stellar job as occupying and stabilising troops. Eventually the troops are called home, the military operation ends up as a great success... and few months later the confused lieutenant is watching news showing the very village he was stationed in being burned to the ground and all of his former operatives and members of the administration being hanged as traitors and collaborators, with the "insurgents" taking over the country, completely unpossed.
** Dream No. 5 ends like this. Using the previous four dreams and their "lessons", BF manages to hold his position and not a single of his men gets killed or even wounded despite the fierce skirmish... but the Boers managed to cross the river, thus making him fail his only objective: preventing them from doing just
** ''The Defense of Jisr Al Doreaa'' makes it far more literal. Dream No. 5 is a perfectly executed initial defense, followed by a stellar job as occupying and stabilising troops. Eventually the troops are called home, the military operation ends up as a great success... and few months later the confused lieutenant is watching news showing the very village he was stationed in being burned to the ground and all of his former operatives and members of the administration being hanged as traitors and collaborators, with the "insurgents" taking over the country, completely unpossed.
