What's your favorite obscure history fact?
The Bible saying that David took Goliath's sword when he was on the run from Saul. I can't stop laughing at the idea of someone running around Bible times with a buster sword.
>>1073414
Alkibiades' wife tried him in court but he just picked her up and took her back home and nobody stopped him
niggers tongued my anus in 1999
The German ultimatum to Russia at the outset of WW1.
The Germans basically dun goofed and gave the Russians two sets of replies - one for the Russians accepting, the other for rejecting German demands.
Both meant war.
One of the two most significant events of the 20th century was helped by a 90s B-movie comedy tier scenario.
>>1073414
Catherine of Aragon had an enormously better claim to the English throne then Henry VIII. The only reason the English royals wanted a Trastamara marriage was for the legitimacy of the Tudors.
She ended up leading England in war against invading dirty Scots while Henry drank in France. And look how she was treated .... Welsh bastards ....
This violates the 25 year rule, but Pope Benedict prayed not to be elected pope during the 2005 papal conclave.
A third of generals in the Swedish Army during the 30 Years War were Scottish.
>>1074361
It was the style at the time though. Everyone hired foreigners.
As is well known,in 1830 most revolutionary activity during this period was performed through the medium of song. The law banning gatherings of more than 20 men was partly aimed at outlawing the sort of large, theatrical dance numbers capable of inspiring revolt.
Wellington’s funeral carriage is one of the world’s most terrifying objects. Made from 18 tonnes of melted down French cannon, adorned with captured flags and originally pulled by nine black dray horses, it proved too heavy for Victorian roads and actually broke Pall Mall, causing Wellington to be uncharacteristically late for his own funeral. Dickens described it thus: “For form of ugliness, horrible combination of colour, hideous motion, and general failure, there was never such a work achieved…”
there was a king nicknamed "john the one-eyed" because a court jester threw a chicken bone at him and it resulted him in losing the sight in one of his eyes.
>>1074047
25 year rule, asshole.
Charlemagne was always bitching that the tunics he imported from England were too short to keep his ass warm when he sat down to shit.
The Spartans had an annual holiday for killing helots. This was done to help curb the population size of their slaves.
LBJ had huge balls. He needed custom pants so that they weren't squished.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S3GT9UN7nDo
The first quran in the western hemisphere was brought there by a Dutch guy who converted to islam and made a career out of capturing people off the barbary coast. His settling in New Amsterdam caused quite a stir.
>>1074597
>>1073414
Its not my favorite but I find it interesting that Europeans/white people converted to Buddhism en masse before any Asians outside of the Indian sub-continent did.
In the few hundred years after Buddha his teachings were brought west to modern day Pakistan/Afghanistan/Iran and the smaller countries to the north of them. In those areas there were huge amounts of Greeks from Alexanders armies as well as Caucasians from the north and many of them converted to Buddhism and the religion spent some time there before being spread east by monks to China. Some scholars believe some of the major doctrinal differences between Theravada and Mahayana emerged while Buddhism was before propagated and studied in this region.
>tfw the middle east could have been filled with peaceful and chill Buddhists instead of Wahhabists but it didn't work out.
>>1074405
Can you hear the people sing?
The role of pants in the spread of western culture has been wrongly sidelined, according to medieval historians, who are starting to rank the underwear factor alongside the invention of printing.
Rags from discarded pants and knickers led to a 13th century breakthrough in the making of cheap paper, undercutting expensive parchment.
>>1074696
Isn't this the same dude that led the Ottoman expedition to Iceland?
>>1075108
I believe that was Simon the Dancer or that was the guy who raided Baltimore.
The so-called Holy Roman Empire actually wasn't holy, Roman, or even an empire.
>>1075121
DELETE THIS
On September 10, 2001 $4 trillion was discovered missing from the US DoD budget.
It hasn't been found since.
>>1073414
The British East India Company sort of accidentally conquered India at first, they helped a local governor in a war against another governor and in return they were given tax jurisdiction over a large area for the payment of their services, and then they said 'oh shit we actually need to govern this to properly extract taxes' and so they formed an administration for the sole purpose of extracting taxes, one thing led to another and more and more ministries and services got added on, more land conquered to get more tax for the crown and then boom, British India.
After Russia conquered Siberia, it was common for people and sometimes entire villages to disappear overnight and pop up somewhere in Siberia when a local aristocrat tried to increase their tax burdens. Sometimes towns of hundreds of people would literally disappear overnight only to appear several months later in Tomsk for example.
>>1075166
And then they ruined the economy.
The turning point in Sino-European relations began in 1804 with a pirate state being set up in Guangdong. Europeans from this point forward acknowledged Qing weakness and continued to push their issues which culminated into the Opium War and resulting Scramble for Concessions.
Cast iron cannons were literally named 'Red Haired Barbarian Cannons'.
I presume the Dutch had a hand in this.
no one knows who fired the first shot at Lexington (opening battle of US War for Independence)
>>1075166
>accidentally conquered India
So does Dutch East India Company in their Indies.
>>1075166
Also, while modern-day Kyrgyz people are today extremely "Turkic" in appearance in the sense that they have brown hair, brown eyes and look like a cross between Mongols and something else, early records of their appearances are extremely different from their contemporary looks. According to Tang Dynasty records, Kyrgyz (specifically the Yenisei Kyrgyz) were described as tall and pale with red hair and green eyes; oddly enough, red hair is actually extremely common in some places in Siberia among indigenous peoples, even moreso than the Irish.
Speaking of the Turkic region, after Alexander the Great's empire collapsed his Greek subjects still remained in Central Asia and Afghanistan. This led to a LOT of really really funky shit, for example the appearance of "Greco-Buddhism" and Buddhas being sculpted in the Greek style.
Peshawar (part of modern day Pakistan) was originally a city of Pashtuns and part of Afghanistan, however it was ceded to the Sikh Empire thanks to our good friends the Eternal Anglo because the UK was afraid that Afghanistan would become a Russian puppet.
>>1075246
>Speaking of the Turkic region, after Alexander the Great's empire collapsed his Greek subjects still remained in Central Asia and Afghanistan. This led to a LOT of really really funky shit, for example the appearance of "Greco-Buddhism" and Buddhas being sculpted in the Greek style.
There's still a minor Greek diaspora in the subcontinent.
The Irish Catholic Confederation was not Irish, nor Catholic, nor a Confederation
>>1075269
>There's still a minor Greek diaspora in the subcontinent.
Seriously?
I wonder what the food's like
>>1075131
In 1993 the US Government spent $277,000 on Pickle Research
>inb4 25 years
That napolean would have probably won Waterloo, had his soldiers had about a handful of nails, to disable artillery.
>>1075282
Seriously. There's even a decent book about it.
http://elinepa.org/2003/01/30/a-chronicle-of-the-greeks-in-india-1750-1950/?lang=en
>>1075131
Every source I can find says 2.3 tetrabucks, and a lot fo them say it's just bad accounting.
>>1075246
>oddly enough, red hair is actually extremely common in some places in Siberia among indigenous peoples, even moreso than the Irish.
Completely different gene too, iirc.
>>1073414
Andrew Jackson didn't like George Washington
>>1075845
Personally, or as a figure?
>Obscure
Well, maybe not to the average /his/fag, but absolutely to the common fucker here in NI.
>The Red Hand of Ulster comes from old Gaelic myths, and isn't some symbol of defiance against Ireland
Anyone who knows naything about anything knows this, and yet here in Ulster if you tell them The Red Hand of Ulster is not British they'll never believe you.
>>1075873
Personally.
>>1074097
everyone knows that
>>1073414
Despite their similarity, the words "Gaul" and "Gallia" are not, in fact, related.
>>1075284
So... Was anything of note found?
>>1075992
They're delicious AND nutritious!
>>1075992
I'm afraid that classified.
>>1076001
The vans will arrive in five minutes. Do not resist.
everyone knows that the most famous picture of Henry VIII is the one where he is holding a turkey leg, except for the fact that no such picture ever existed
>>1075990
holy shit pls explain
>>1075992
As expected country grown vegetables.
During WWII, after Germany 'accidentally' bombed Dublin, Hitler paid money as an apology to Ireland. Some of the money was used to build a new synagogue after the old one was destroyed.
Texas maintained embassies in London and Paris while independent. The former site of the London embassy is now a Texan-themed restaurant and grill.
The French ambassador to Texas was once complained of almost being killed by a stray arrow fired by a Comanche Indian in a raid while leaving the ambassador's residence in Austin.
Before the Battle of Drepana, the Roman naval commander Publius Claudius Pulcher (not the more famous contemporary of Julius Caesar) followed the tradition of consulting the sacred chickens. He fed them grain, which they refused to eat, a very bad omen. Angry at the chickens, Claudius loudly proclaimed "Let them drink, since they don't wish to eat," and threw them overboard.
He then proceeded to get nearly the entire Roman fleet destroyed.
The Carthaginians didn't lose a single ship.
>>1075992
http://articles.chicagotribune.com/1995-12-01/news/9512010178_1_kosher-rabbis-dill
here's a story about it
Roman Emperor Galba crucified a man for poisoning his ward to inherit property. The man smugly stated that he was Roman citizen, and thus above the punishment of crucifixion. In response, Galba ordered that his cross was to be set much higher than the rest and to be painted white.
>>1075990
every source I'm reading says that both words come from Latin ''Gallus''
where are you getting this ''fact''?
>>1075300
wouldn't have changed shit senpai
>>1076331
they should have fucking glassed those limey niggers
>>1075992
Pickles are nasty.
>>1076590
YOU TAKE THAT BACK RIGHT FUCKING NOW.
>>1076611
>>1076621
One of the Holy Roman Emperors was called the "Imperial Sleepyhead."
>>1073414
the third reich was the second biggest market of coca cola during it's existence
>>1076663
Fanta was created in Nazi Germany
>>1076663
Going off of this, Fanta was created in Nazi Germany during World War II when they ran out of ingredients for coke.
Plato had a brother.
>>1076694
Plato's brother was a mere shadow of Plato's form
>>1076709
>During the war, a growing rift between the pair reached breaking point after an Allied bomb attack in 1943, when Adi and his wife ran into a bomb shelter that Rudolf and his family were already in: "The bastards are back again", Adi said, referring to the Allied war planes, but Rudolf was utterly convinced that his brother had been referring to him and his family.
you can't make this shit up. history is hilarous
>>1075131
This isn't exactly accurate. On Sept. 10, Rumsfeld gave a speech addressing wasteful spending by the Pentagon, and claimed that there were $2.3 trillion worth of unaccounted for transactions over the years. I've read that it's up to $8.5 trillion now.
>>1076669
and the name comes from one of the german scientists saying "Das ist Fantastich" meaning this is amazing...
Napoleon was friends with a little girl while imprisoned on St Helena.
The fact that Modena still has the bucket they took from Bologna in the 13th century on a fucking display
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_of_the_Bucket
>>1077070
Shit like this and the kettle war make me smile uncontrollably
Pyyrhus of Epirus, one of the great generals of classical antiquity and a successor to the legacy of Alexander the Great, managed to avoid dying in the numerous Roman defeats inflicted upon him, only to be killed when an old lady threw a roof tile at his head
The Han Chinese sent ambassadors to Rome, but reports vary whether they made it to the capital itself to visit Augustus, or simply reached the Syrian border and didn't bother the rest of the way. They called the Romans "Dai-Qin"
Supposedly archaeologists know the location and remains of the famous bridges that Caesar built in his Gallic campaigns, where he constructed bridges across the Rhine River in record speed and precision that the Germanic tribes were freaked out and decided not to attack. Caesar ordered te bridges cut, but the supports are still present in the riverbed today
>>1076481
Probably a stupid question but why paint it white?
>>1077070
Medieval Europe, why you so crazy?
>>1077070
>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_of_the_Bucket
>Casualties and Losses
>Town bucket
I can't stop laughing
>>1076016
>everyone knows that the most famous picture of Henry VIII is the one where he is holding a turkey leg
Ignoring the fact that it doesn't exist it isn't even what first comes to mind when thinking of pictures of him. Must be some dumb amerifat propaganda thing.
>>1074089
They both look so damn pissed off.
>>1077343
>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_of_the_Bucket
>4000 people actually died over this
>>1077373
I'm American and I've never even heard of this. I definitely don't picture him with a turkey leg
>>1077289
To make it shiny and special, befitting his status as a citizen
Hitler was the commander of the Third Reich.
>>1077070
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_of_Jenkins%27_Ear
Early modern conflicts did this sort of thing too.
>>1075246
>Kyrgyz (specifically the Yenisei Kyrgyz) were described as tall and pale with red hair and green eyes; oddly enough, red hair is actually extremely common in some places in Siberia among indigenous peoples, even moreso than the Irish.
Tocharians?
>>1076704
>>1075992
The US government refused to release their findings.
>>1073599
Can you give me a source on this. I believe you, I just want to extract more keks from this.
>>1077426
hahahah, suprised i got as many replies that i did
>>1076374
>>1077343
I feel like casualties and losses sections are wiki editors' only outlet for humor
>>1075121
Untrue
Andrew Jackson was in a duel, got hit in the chest, and still proceeded to shoot his opponent, killing him
A lot of Spanish soldiers and sailors decided to stay in Denmark after the Napoleonic Wars, so there's a sizeable number of Danes near Kolding with Spanish surnames and looks.
The guy that originally wrote In Flanders Fields almost thew it away because he thought it sucked.
>>1077414
One of causes of the bubonic plague was that cats were exterminated all over europe after a pope decided they were satanic. No cats meant lots of rats and lots of rat fleas
>>1076481
rekt
>>1075034
I didnt know that! I always thought that Buddhism was considered a strange eastern religion by westerners way after it arrived in China. Interesting.
>>1078103
It's neat.
>>1075284
That is because in the 90s everybody was high
>>1078124
I guess it makes sense why the Greeks would accept that so easily because some Greeks were already practicing esoteric ascetic life-styles like Gnosticism.
Dang, I need to get into Greek history. I guess they say start with the Greeks for a reason.
The tale of the Russian Baltic Fleet's travels to arrive in the straits of Tshushima is one of the greatest examples of naval incompetence in history.
>>1078199
Here is a longer version http://pastebin.com/bjZxapL3
Source is Geoffrey Regan.
>>1078220
I just feel bad for Rozhestvensky now.
For the 1933 Chicago World's Fair, Italo Balbo (Mussolini's second-in-command) landed 24 seaplanes in Lake Michigan after a Transatlantic flight from Rome. In honor of his journey, they named a street after him. Mussolini returned the favor by gifting the city of Chicago an ancient Roman column atop a monument. It, along with Balbo Avenue, exists in Chicago to this day.
>>1074089
>dirty Scots
Careful now, you don't have Catherine protecting you any more.
>>1076511
It might have been a stalemate instead of the utter defeat it was
>>1078199
While on the topic of the Russo-Japanese War, Montenegro, Russia's only ally in the war, signed a peace treaty more than a hundred years after the war's end after it gained independence from Serbia.
This absolute madman
> During one of his campaigns, he publicly announced he would win the battle or come home in his coffin. When his troops were forced back he was true to his word - he was paraded through the streets, sitting in his coffin, and smoking a large cigar.
>By 1929 he was living quietly in Beppu, Japan with his mother, though was thrown into the spotlight again when he "accidentally" shot Prince Xiankai (憲開), a cousin of the deposed emperor Puyi. According to Zhang the gun he was holding while standing at his hotel window happened to go off and shoot the young prince in the back, killing him instantly
>>1073436
Which Book, Chapter, Verse?
>>1074074
Russia's exit from WWI was comical too. The Germans were propping up the Bolshevik regime monetarily, and they demanded a shitload of concessions from Russia's territory. The Russians thought this was extreme, so they just walked away from the bargaining table and announced to the world that as far as Russia was concerned, the war was over. After enjoying a mild chuckle, the Germans decided to show Russia what the real world was like. They started marching through Ukraine with absolutely no one to stop them, and the eventual intention of deposing the revolutionary government and installing a pro-German regime themselves. Somewhat sheepishly, the Russians then returned to bargaining table and asked if the Germans would reconsider. The Germans, now quite frustrated with the whole affair and in no mood to be forgiving, demanded the Baltic states, independence for Ukraine, and other miscellaneous territories. Further, the Russians would pay a fuckload of war reparations AND turn over their artillery, machine guns, grain, oil, and rail cars to the Germans.
>>1078516
Fucking amazing.
>>1078516
He also gave his troops medals made from the shiny cellophane in cigarette packs.
>>1075899
>and isn't some symbol of defiance against Ireland
I have been studying the conflict for years, and it never ceases to amaze me the retardation that Orangemen are capable of.
Then again, I met an Irishman who was unwilling to accept a third of his flag is Orange.
>>1076374
When it doesn't want to go right...
One of the biggest reasons the Dutch Revolt succeeded was purely because of luck. One of the fleets got kicked out of London, and got lost at sea somehow. The wind conveniently brought them to the Spanish-held city of Brielle, which conveniently didn't have any Spaniards in them. They were away fighting pirates or some shit.
The taking of Brielle raised morale for all the cities fighting against Spain.
The Dutch have had extreme luck in war more often, but I can't remember more examples.
>>1077070
?guelphs and the ghibellines
That these factions still aren't in CK2 is a goddamn stain on Paradox.
>>1077070
>modena outnumbered 9:2
>still take the bucket
>>1077387
2,000, the number is for both sides, they don't know how it divides up.
>>1078516
>Time dubbed him China's "basest warlord".[3]
>>1076704
hehehe
>>1075034
>peaceful and chill Buddhists
You might want to reevaluate this common misconception. Buddhists are not entirely peaceful and chill, often it is the exact opposite.
>>1078536
1 Samuel 21: 1-9
1David went to Nob, to Ahimelek the priest. Ahimelek trembled when he met him, and asked, “Why are you alone? Why is no one with you?”
2David answered Ahimelek the priest, “The king sent me on a mission and said to me, ‘No one is to know anything about the mission I am sending you on.’ As for my men, I have told them to meet me at a certain place. 3Now then, what do you have on hand? Give me five loaves of bread, or whatever you can find.”
4But the priest answered David, “I don’t have any ordinary bread on hand; however, there is some consecrated bread here—provided the men have kept themselves from women.”
5David replied, “Indeed women have been kept from us, as usual whenevera I set out. The men’s bodies are holy even on missions that are not holy. How much more so today!” 6So the priest gave him the consecrated bread, since there was no bread there except the bread of the Presence that had been removed from before the Lord and replaced by hot bread on the day it was taken away.
7Now one of Saul’s servants was there that day, detained before the Lord; he was Doeg the Edomite, Saul’s chief shepherd.
8David asked Ahimelek, “Don’t you have a spear or a sword here? I haven’t brought my sword or any other weapon, because the king’s mission was urgent.”
9The priest replied, “The sword of Goliath the Philistine, whom you killed in the Valley of Elah, is here; it is wrapped in a cloth behind the ephod. If you want it, take it; there is no sword here but that one.”
David said, “There is none like it; give it to me.”
>>1077753
Why would they do that?
>>1078054
[citation needed]
>>1080232
Because it's nicer than Spain? Also, a lot of time soldiers and sailors manage to find a better standard of living at these places than the place they left. One of my ancestors was a German mercenary who fought for Emperor Maximilian of Mexico and decided he liked it there.
My Latin teacher told me Romans didn't actually speak Latin. They spoke Greek.
>>1080261
In Constantinople they did
>>1077343
>>1077387
>>1073414
When Elisha suggests Hazael, king Ben Hadad's servant, to murder him in his sleep, rule in its place and persecute all jews, because Elisha is a fucking idiot
Also a relatively obscure fact if you didn't get muslim religious education: one of Mahomet's motivations behind creating Islam was to forbid forced marriage and abuse of women, most notably the killing of female new-borns (whose reality is actually highly questionable)
>>1080261
Greek was actually seen as the language of the intellectual and the elite. Latin was a common man's language.
>>1074434
Thats fucking awesome not even bad
>>1074515
WHAT HAPPENED TO THE JESTER
>>1074405
We'll be ready for these schoolboys
They will wet themselves with blood
>>1076331
WOAH SO CRAZY FACT MAN
Stick it to ya, Adolf! Ahaha! ^_^
>>1080328
juni
>>1076590
that opinion is nasty
Denmark was actually a somewhat powerful colonial nation with holdings both in the Caribbean, Africa and.India
>>1076733
Holy shit that's hilarious lmao
>>1077407
I second this. The only time I've seen him with a turkey leg would be in some stupid educational cartoon I might've seen in middle school.
>>1077387
>War of the bucket
>Guelphs vs. Ghibellines
>Battle of Zapolino
What the fuck is this Doctor Seuss shit I'm reading
>>1074434
First tank?
>>1075166
"We seem, as it were, to have conquered half the world in a fit of absence of mind".
britians first fascist party was lead by the worlds first girlscout
>>1080402
>>1080402
>Dependent on alcohol and other drugs,[13] rumours about her private life began to damage her reputation, until her mother stopped her funding amid lurid tales of alcohol, other drugs and orgies
Why are facists always such degenerates?
>>1080421
>why do degenerates create lies about fascists?
Ftfy
>>1074706
the dog is being cute, not laughing, autist
Back in the day people thought the sound horses made sounded most like Dutch/German
A quote often (mis)attributed to Charles V
>"I speak Spanish to God, Italian to Women, French to Men, and Dutch/German to my Horse."
Jonathan Swift wrote the more or less in his book Gullivers travels about a bunch of talking horses. See pic related.
>>1073414
Some sources mistakenly translated "rays of light" as "horns" and "Canaanite" as "Canine"(or in other words, some dog-headed savages believed to inhabit the wilderness), so in the West you had horned statues of Moses, and in the East, St. Christopher became a holy werewolf.
>>1073414
That the original colonists of Jamestown ran out of food and resorted to cannibalism. One man killed and ate his pregnant wife from the neck down.
Or that when a group of Indians came to Manhattan for protection from the Mohawk, the Dutch just came in after the fact and killed the women and children who weren't touched by the Mohawk. They hacked babies up in front of their mothers and threw them in the river. The soldiers took their heads home too, where they played kickball with the heads in the streets.
They enslaved a few though including one man who castrated, flayed from fingers to knees, fed his own flesh, then dragged through the streets of New Amsterdam until they brought him to a millstone and killed him by beating his head into mush. He sang his death song until the very end.
Turns out the Lenape didn't appreciate this and promptly every tribe declared war on them.
The Indians were pretty brutal, but damn.
>>1080648
That's pretty harsh
>>1080648
I assume the indians had been cunts to the dutch at some point before that?
A bit of an overreaction to just slaughter them for no raisin.
>>1080709
This guy named Stuyvezant was leading them and by all accounts he was a cunt.
I am not the guy you are replying too but I am curious as to what hapenend in the new netherlands.
>>1073414
every belgian flag hung up is actually wrong... our constitution states our flag is red, yellow, black (starting from the mast) and yet everywhere our belgian flag is hung, it's black, yellow, red... thus making all of the flags technically unconstitutional
Two flags were raised over the General Post Office in Dublin during the Easter Rising, both considered to be contenders for the national Irish flag
One was the modern Irish flag
The other was a green square with the words "Irish Republic" on it
>>1078054
I thought they were exterminated because they were thought to be carrying the plague?
>>1078516
>He kept some thirty to fifty concubines of different nationalities, including Koreans, Japanese, White Russians, French and Americans, who were given numbers since he could not remember their names nor speak their language.
In the aftermath of the 1478 Pazzi conspiracy in which Lorenzo de Medici's brother was killed, the head of the Pazzi family Jacopo rode through the streets triumphantly announcing the death of Giuliano and the end of the political domination of the Medici family, believing that the newly liberated people of Florence would flock to his support.
Instead, the people, who had greatly enjoyed the generosity of the Medici family for two previous generations, seized Jacopo and hanged him from the very public Palazzo Vecchio. He was buried, but his body was retrieved, taken to his palace and his head used to knock on the door in order to taunt what remained of his family. His body, now sans head, was thrown into the Arno River, where it was promptly fished out by some locals, whipped, and then thrown back into the river, never to be seen again.
Queen Elizabeth II is more closely related to the Irish rebel lord Aodh Mór Ó Néill than she is to Elizabeth I who he rebelled against.
>>1080776
How the fuck do you get American women into a concubine
>>1078556
Would've been a much better end tbqh
>>1080790
Jesus.
>>1080790
Heeeeeeeres Jacopo.
>>1075131
Went to the moon base. We have USAF Space Command now too. Ignore everything I just said.
>>1080147
*rarely and with a significantly lower level of precedence relative to other religions
>>1080648
Anyone else feel the colonists were ISIS
>>1081242
Money. Next question.
>>1080402
I think I just found my /his/ waifu.
>>1081911
Nah. I mean yeah, there's no whitewashing how brutal things were, but we know about these events largely because people were horrified by their countrymen's actions.
The Dutch recalled that governor, but he's just part of an overall problem. They don't talk much about the truly dark part of our colonial history: if they really taught how King Phillip's War was fought parents would be horrified.
>>1080720
No, it was Willem Kieft. Peter Stuyvesant was the man that replaced Kieft.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kieft%27s_War
>>1083136
How about you do a 5 seconds "Jamestown cannibalism" google search and click on the first result
>>1083173
How about you stop ignoring the rest of his post instead of focusing on the well known occurrence that no one itt even challenged.
>>1073414
Japanese Katanas are folded a six million times.
>>1083264
Get out
>>1083258
How about you click the fucking wikipedia link just above the post you're pretending you didn't make
>>1083136
https://www.wdl.org/en/item/4060/
Took me a minute, sorry.
Bump because I enjoy this thread and want more facts
Because of rampant dysentery, the heroic English archers at Agincourt were naked from the waist down.
>>1076342
>be Texan
>get arrowed
I guess America has always been a crazy place to Europeans.
>>1086750
Shit happens out west
>>1076342
As a Texan visiting London in about a month, I need to see this
>>1077070
The US 4th Illinois Infantry captured Mexican General/President Santa Anna's leg in the Mexican-American War, and it is on display even today in their museum at Springfield, Illinois.
>>1087381
Santa Anna also held a full military state funeral for his severed leg
The Qur'an was the first book written in Arabic.
bamp
>>1076342
A lady at Westminster told us about there being a Texan embassy in London after my dad and I told her we were from there. Never got to see it unfortunately
>>1077070
>casualties and losses
>town bucket
Kek
>>1075131
