Talk:Les Essarts, Forbes family estate

Validity/believeability
At the top of the article are two boxes saying the article is inadequately sourced. Yet nothing happens. Guess I better do some more tutorials. Jalapama (talk) 04:15, 7 February 2012 (UTC)

Winthrop family??
Who is in that family that has any notability? Jalapama (talk) 04:20, 7 February 2012 (UTC)


 * John Winthrop Historian932 (talk) 15:35, 14 December 2012 (UTC)

Nazis "Bombed" estate?
This word sounds strange to me..."bombing" usually implies from the air, at that stage in the war the Germans only had fighter aircraft which were used to defend Germany against Allied bombers, in addition it sounds like it was done for spite (not a military target).

Did the leaving Germans rather demolish the house using explosives? If so it should be rewritten. (I think it's important because *many* homes were destroyed around this time in this area by of *Allied* bombs and shells [more French civilians were supposedly killed by Allied bombs before D-Day than Allied soldiers were killed on D-Day], it sounds suspiciously like something which might have been the result of "friendly fire" but which got attributed to "the Nazis" for political purposes [analogous to things like the Katyn massacre, the destruction of Ukrainian Orthodox churches by the Soviets, and so on].) Historian932 (talk) 15:54, 14 December 2012 (UTC)