Talk:Potsdam Giants

Wiki Education Foundation-supported course assignment
This article was the subject of a Wiki Education Foundation-supported course assignment, between 7 January 2020 and 15 April 2020. Further details are available on the course page. Student editor(s): Mmb255.

Above undated message substituted from Template:Dashboard.wikiedu.org assignment by PrimeBOT (talk) 07:03, 17 January 2022 (UTC)

Sorry, but this I can't resist!
"Think the Eagles will trade Terell Owens to the Potsdam Giants?"

This article lacks information
1.8 meters tall? That is not much by todays standards. It should be mentioned what wad the avarege height of soldiers of that era (and why), than these guys would really seem tall (and as a result difficult to find). Mieciu K 13:39, 1 August 2006 (UTC)

Real? Fake?
When I first read this it seemed like a clever ruse by some bored German history major...but actually there are sources for it out there...Thomas Carlyle seems to have written about it, unless of course that same bored German history major is inventing sources. Paul 06:57, 13 September 2007 (UTC)

unfit for combat

 * A man of 1.8 or 1.9 meter isn´t that tall to be "unfit for combat", he´s just larger than the average of that time.
 * The "Soldier - King" never waged war, so that´s why his "Long Guys" never fought a battle.
 * The whole idea isn´t as absurd as often claimed. They used Muzzleloaders and it´s much more difficult to load such a weapon if you are almost as tall as your weapon, while it´s easier to handle a weapon just extending to the height of your arms. (HerkusMonte (talk) 09:51, 2 July 2008 (UTC))

Conversion error
6 Prussian feet may have been 1.88 metres, or it may have been 5 foot 11 in British/American feet, but it can't have been both because 5 foot 11' is only 180.34cm. Abberley2 (talk) 12:11, 29 November 2008 (UTC)


 * According to Altpreußisches Infanterieregiment No. 6 von 1675/3 it's 1.88 metres. HerkusMonte (talk) 18:39, 29 November 2008 (UTC)

Source for the quote to the French ambassador?
Does anyone know where the supposed quotation to the French ambassador comes from? My own searches for it didn't turn up anything and the edit was made with no source backing it up. Here is a link to the original revision that added this claim. For now, I tagged it as citation needed. Posidon99999 (talk) 00:10, 10 April 2024 (UTC)