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What are some of history's most epic moments ?
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>>1212000
>Everything wrong with that image
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>>1212000
Cambrai.
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>>1212000
Moses leading the Jews out of slavery in Egypt and leading them to the Holy Land that God had promised them.
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>>1212000
The March on Rome. Crossing the Rubicon 2.0
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Fall of Constantinople, the last breath of the Roman Empire.
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>>1212106
this is where everything went wrong
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The fourth Crusade. It collapsed the lungs of the Roman Empire.
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The Fall of Berlin, 1945
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>>1212118
The Justinian plague. When the Roman Empire started to cough a bit too hard.
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>>1212000
Cortez's entire expedition against the Aztecs reads like something from an HBO series.
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Stalingrad
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>>1212142
That should become the new Vikings.
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>>1212061
Came in here to post this.

I've seen unbelievable things in my life, good and bad, but it would still be hard to comprehend this event, when even less than a century ago the advent of the front lawn was still a surreal sight.

Everyone except Moses and Aaron probably thought they were in a dream.
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>>1212151
I'd pay money to see that
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>>1212000
The cavalry charge at Beersheba.
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>>1212000
>dat cornicen just chilling out with his jam.
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Aeneas fleeing Tory and traveling to Italy. The planting of the seed of the Roman Empire.
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>>1212061

> Moment
> 40 years

Still amazing though!
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>>1212163
The cavalry charge at Vienna

The Ottomen had bad luck with those.
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>>1212151
no, it would be nice if it was historically accurate.
Vikings could straight up have claimed to be a fictional setting from the outset from the start, change the names of the characters, and no one would realize it was addressing a specific point in viking history, it is that bad.
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The Crusades anyone?
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The Battle of Catalaunian Plains. The final battle of the old Empire.
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The paras defeating the Argentines at Goose Green. Forever cementing that the whitest country on earth will never own the Falklands.
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Poitiers and the end of the high tide of Islam.
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>>1212188
I could envision a /tv/ series loosely based around Cortez but staring a relatively unknown or even fictional Conquistador.
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>>1212061
>What are some of history's most epic moments
>history's most epic moments
>history
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>>1212231
>defeat a scouting party
>"WE DEFEATED THE ENTIRE CALIPHATE AND SAVED EUROPE YAY"
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The destruction of Jerusalem and the taking of the menorah.
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Bar Kokbah revot.

400,000 - 600,000 Jews dead. Thousands of Roman civilians dead.

Two whole legions erased. Around 80,000 to 180,000 legionaries dead.

The first cataclysmic guerilla war I know of. Full fanatacism.
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>>1212248
>20000 strong scout party
>Somehow after this scouting party is defeated the Muslims never come back to France.
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The battle of Vienna. The zenith of Ottoman expansion in Europe.


Also the inspiration of the siege of Minas Tirith and battle of Pelennor Fields along with >>1212205
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>>1212061
neither history nor a moment
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>>1212061
>>>/isr/
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>>1212270
They did, actually

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Septimania#Muslim_Septimania

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fraxinet
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>>1212233
There's a video game for that.
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>>1212254
Truly the Roman were unsung heroes trying to stop the spread of Abrahamic and monotheistic religion
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>>1212061
>Historys most epic mistakes
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>Alfred's victory against Guthrum at Ethandun

The whole thing, the Vikings surprising Alfred at Chippenham and running over the entire kingdom of Wessex, Alfred's fleeing to Athelney and spending months there as the last hope of the Anglo-Saxons, and then he coming back to defeat the Danes.

>Battle of Ain Jalut

Two years after the fall of Baghdad, the Mongol tide is turned back.

>Retreat of the Czechoslovak Legions through Siberia during the Russian Civil War

The Anabasis of the 20th century.

>Battle of Lepanto

The only reason why there isn't a epic movie about it is because Hollywood is owned by Christ-hating Jews,
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>>1212270
>>1212280
fucking /his/torians every time
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>>1212337
>The only reason why there isn't a epic movie about it is because Hollywood is owned by Christ-hating Jews,

There are plenty of Christian-themed movies, though, Kingdom of Heaven and that one about Moses from a year or two ago to name some recent ones.
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>>1212061
>history
lel
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>>1212516
Kingdom of Heaven allowed to have sympatethic muslims thanks to Saladin. Moses is not offensive at all for jews.
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The 2 or 3 days it took from a war in the balkans to the greatest war in human history.
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>>1212188
This. Your could tell it 100% accurately and with the only fiction being the exact character interactions and it would be insane.
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>>1212529
>Kingdom of Heaven allowed to have sympatethic muslims thanks to Saladin.
There is no good or bad in history. The film can portray either the Ottomans or The Holy League as the good guys, or both in a good/bad grey area, if they like.

>Moses is not offensive at all for jews.
Except most of those "Christ-hating Jews" are atheist, they're not religiously Jewish, only ethnically. By that logic they should have just as much distaste if not more for figures like Moses.
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>>1212161
It's unbelievable because it didn't happen
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>>1212533
>2 or 3 days
There's an Extra History series you might want to check out
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>>1212565
It was 5 days from the Austrian declaration on Serbia to the German declaration on France.
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mandatory post
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>>1212000
Is that image from a book/graphic novel? If so, do you have the name?
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>>1212612
This desu fampai. Or the surrender of Cornwallis at Yorktown.

Also the charge of the winged hussars/allies at Vienna would have been crazy to witness. 20,000 cavalry coming at me is a picture that i can't really even comprehend
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>>1212000
>Napoleon dissolving the HRE
>Battle of Yarmouk
>German conquest of France
>Battle of Verdun
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>>1212061
/thread
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>>1212061
>>>/trash/
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>>1212000
This image offends me
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>>1212061
>>/x/
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>>1212106
>>1212110
I wrote a paper on the fall for mid-east history course at uni. depressing af. i was particular sad that Constantine XI he asked for help and almost no Christians cared and many rooted for him to fail. sad. then! you find out Russia could have gotten it if they had not fallen to communism during ww1. I guess it wasn't meant to be, or was meant to be, however you look at it.
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you fag can even undestand how of a game changer this was
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>>1212805
sure. it shaped/caused/started the Christian era in Europe. good choice.
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>>1212272
nor an empire
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>>1212783
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5PeN1k9AAMg
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>>1212827
Having recently binged on both seasons of rome, this video pleases me
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>>1212248
You clearly had no idea what you are talking about. The umayyad took cities in southern France before and after the battle. It was clearly more than just a scouting party.
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Succeding where westerners are afraid to even try, recovering what's yours after centuries.
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>>1212061

>implying there is an iota of archaeological or literary evidence outside the Bible that the Hebrews were ever slaves in Egypt.
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>>1212280
>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fraxinet

>muslim pirates in the alps

what the fuck
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hARO L D:-REX:-INTERFEC TVS:EST
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Crusade of Varna

>Venice
>Poland
>Hungary
>Croatia
>Bohemia
>Lithuania
>Serbia
>Wallachia
>Moldavia
>Bulgaria
>Holy >Roman >Empire
>Papal States and whoever served under them
>Teutonic Order
vs
>Ottoman Empire

>Result: Decisive Ottoman victory
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>>1213625
>more states fighting for a side means that side is stronger
not how it works senpai
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>>1213625
Wait wasn't bulgaria already part of the ottoman empire by that time.

>>1213668
That would mean that the ottomans were the better statesmen.
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>>1212061
Honestly Christians should all just be fucking shot their collective retardation is a blight on humanity

If we shot all the Christians and all the Muslims and Jews just think how much better it would be
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Battle of Kursk
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>>1212932
People shit on Jews but I agree that would have been a monumental achievement for them all, something that'll be a part of Jewish Tradition from now on until the end of time
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>>1212932
Those are westerners...
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>>1213789
>a world full of 40 year old, 300 kilo neckbeards fucking MLP plush dolls on the streets
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>>1214114
Kek
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>>1213809
Shame the war turned out to be a 50 year stalemate. I guess that is why it is little know to some people.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2016_Chinese_memes_war_on_Facebook
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>>1212061
I thought that was Constantine for a second.
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Cuban Missile Crisis -> Bay of Pigs Invasion

With one reckless movement, there would be nothing left.
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Imagine capital of >H> R> E in hands of Ottomans.
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>>1214313
>implying it wasnt just all just a big jerkoff between the two bluffing
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3lMcZDho2UY
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>>1212000
The Great Emu War
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>>1212000
that pic is triggering my historical autism
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>>1214371
meh
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>>1212000

It wasn't a specific moment but IMO the most epic thing in history was Hannibal's campaign in Italy. Alexander obviously was a more successful conqueror but what he did was much less difficult then what Hannibal did (not saying what Alexander did was easy).

>tfw for literally 15 years straight he rampaged around in an enemy land far from his home with the odds against him
>for 15 years having to obtain supplies, new soldiers and their salaries all the while being the biggest target of the super-power whose heartlands you are running around in.
>going up against bigger and better-supplied armies only for them to get BTFO
>did all of this with only one working eye (he lost one to infection in his first year in Italy)

He entered Italy when he was about 29 years old and left it when he was around 44. Thats a third of his entire life at that point spent fighting continuously in Italy. Think about your entire life and imagine if you had spent the last third of it commanding an army campaigning the whole time around in a foreign land against a stronger and better-supplied force. It really boggles the mind.
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>>1215122
The territory he spent most of his time in declared for him early tho, Hannibal even complained how the easy life among his allies sapped his men's will to fight.
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>>1212000
The Arab siege of Constantinople, the Arabs were already decisive with their conquests and fresh to conquer the City until the Greek Fire was made and scorched their asses back to the sea.
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Battle of empel:
>The situation for the Spanish looked desperate. A Spanish soldier who was digging a trench around the church commented "this is more likely to be my grave than a trench". As he dug, he found a painting representing Mary of the Immaculate Conception. Bobadilla interpreted the discovery as a sign from God, and had the painting put on the Spanish flag for worship.

>That night, an unusual and completely intensely cold wind that chilled the waters of the River Meuse broke. The Dutch ships had to be withdrawn to prevent them being stucked in the ice. This made it possible for the remaining Spanish troops to escape to the safety of 's-Hertogenbosch. Admiral Hohenlohe-Neuenstein went on to say: "It seems that God is Spanish to work for me so great miracle ".
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Empel
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>>1213789
t. Sanjay Patel
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Napoleon's return from exile
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>>1215756
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ffeOvwBYkf4
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>>1213799
this.
how has nobody already said this
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>>1213809
kek, Venice at the end.
How awkward
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Anyone ?
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>>1215902
Venetian backstabbers as usual
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>>1212148
>human suffering on an unimaginable scale
>epic
ishygddt
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>>1212000

Caesar crossing the Rubicon
Napoleon's return from exile
Last day of the Bismarck
The Alamo
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>>1215934

>human suffering on an unimaginable scale
>an unimaginable scale.
>unimaginable scale

There you go.
Epic doesn't need to be positive. It's awesome in the old sense of the world. Awe inspiring. Shocking. Difficult to conceive.
Stalingrad fits the bill.
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>>1212142
>reads
What exactly are you reading?
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de Soto's expedition from Florida. They just marched forever in unknown territory and went way north and way west and somehow a few of them still made it out alive.
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>>1212337
Then of course, leave out the part where the Danelaw is still established and Alfred is forced to pay taxes to the danish King.
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The Treat of Tilsit is pretty amazing. The leaders of the two biggest empires in Europe meeting on a raft, deciding the fate of Europe while the King of another Great Power paces on the shore.

>>1212542
Not him, but I feel like the Christians would be more or less the good guys. But if it was done right the Ottoman commander would be sort of an anti-hero.
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>>1213809
What happened there? Why did Venice and France suddenly allied?
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>>1212270
>Muslims never come back to France
Ummm
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>>1216058
It was already explained but I don't remember it well.

Venetians don't even backstab anyone. It's basically the Pope trying to keep the statu quo in north italy and failing.
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Battle of Warsaw, or like some like to call it, "Miracle at the Wisła"
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>>1212542
>ottomans

wot? they didn't exist back then.
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>>1216176
>ottomans
>didn't exist at the battle of lepanto

How dumb are you?
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>>1215959
Probably Bernal Diaz, one of the conquistadors.
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>>1215926
Hardly a "moment".
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Did someone say
>Bannockburn
Get fucked, England
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>>1212061
>history
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>>1212254
Menorah's are pretty common m8. Don't you mean the Ark of the Covenant?
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The landing of Columbus in the Americas
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>>1212248
>i refuse to acknowledge the West's victories because it goes against my political beliefs!
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The battle of Kursk
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>>1212932
>what is the British Mandate of Palestine
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>>1212106
Constantinople was about as Roman as humans are monkeys.
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Bombing of Pearl Harbour
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>>1216083

/POL/ iS THIS WAY >>>/pol/
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Tennis Court Oath
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>>1218003
That is certainly one way of looking at it.

Another would acknowledge that what it meant to be "Roman" evolved over time.
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>>1216126
this
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>>1212000
1913: the year before the West self-destructed and permanently fucked over the entire world.
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>>1217909
can such an event with that kind of impact ever happen again?
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>>1218155
how is that even pol he is right
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>>1218333
fuckin serbs man
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>>1213625
>>1213739
They won crusade, it was just pope's fault that he baited stupid young and ambitious king into killing himself in charge against running Turks. - Their army got obliterated trying to protect the king.
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>>1212612
I'm assuming this is the crossing of the Delaware. In my entire life, I haven't actually read that much about the War of Independence (Australian who's more interested in Ancient and European history). What was the significance of this event?
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>>1215756
How was this not posted earlier. Even though it's obviously heavily romanticized, I can't help but get chills whenever I think about it
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>>1218155
Am I wrong?
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>>1213809
>France
>Duchy of Ferrara

Best friends 4ever
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>>1214294
>Westerners think that without censorship the Chinese would show their love for liberalism and democracy like everyone else
>in fact they would just go full nationalist retard

Thank you, CCP, for containing that bullshit with your censorship policies.
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>>1212000
The most epic one probably.
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>>1218003
Humans are monkeys
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>>1212142
>>1215959
>>1215975
Good luck if you want the anglo media ever giving some attention to spanish history in a non biased way, god forbids we are portrayed in some good/heroic/badass way like they do with the rest of Europe.
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>>1212337
>Lepanto meme

Ottomans still won that war lol.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ottoman%E2%80%93Venetian_War_%281570%E2%80%9373%29
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>>1219940
It wasn't a meme at all, ottomans may have won the war at the end, but the destruction of their navy ended the ottoman supremacy in the Mediterranean.
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>>1219957
In what way did it end it? The ottomans rebuilt their navy and forced the christians to pay them tribute.
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>>1212805
>battle of milvian bridge
>wasn't fought on a bridge
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>>1219989
>rebuilt their navy
The problem was not the ships, but the 20k experienced sailors they lost.

>In what way did it end it?
It allowed the spaniards to fight the muslims corsairs all around the Mediterranean and they continued attacking ottoman territories in North Africa and destroying ottoman fleets until the end of the 17th century, for example.
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>>1220000
>The Empire's shattered fleets were soon restored (in just six months; it consisted of about 150 galleys and 8 galleasses) and the Ottomans maintained control of the Mediterranean (1573). In August 1574, months before Selim's death, the Ottomans regained control of Tunisia from Spain who had controlled it since 1572.

Spain didn't so shit. It was inconsequential.

>17th century

By that time the Ottomans were falling for different reasons.

The only reason Leptanto is such a meme is because before that battle the Ottomans seemed invincible in the eyes of Europeans. It was a rare victory against the Ottoman navy who destroyed European coalitions before. Pic related.
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>>1220008
>Using the wiki
>Ever
Alright, keep using that totally-non biased source to debate me, anon.

I guess you're turk/muslim.


>Muslim losses at Lepanto were enormous, in vessels, guns and men. But, as I have argued elsewhere, the most crippling loss was in experts.14 We know that these men were an essential and virtually irreplacable component of Mediterranean power at sea and were recognized as such.15 We know this for a fact, for the victorious allies took the extraordinary measure of identifying them and having them killed, even in the aftermath of victory.16 And in fact, although the Turks were able to put an enormous number of galleys to sea in the following years, they assiduously avoided combat with the Christian fleet—and with good reason, for the lack of experts rendered their galleys uncertain tactical instruments.
>And the damage was permanent. To be sure, Uluj Ali wrought prodigies as Kapudan Pasha, facing off the allied fleet in 1572 and retaking Tunis from the Spanish in 1574. But the recapture of Tunis was Ottoman seapower's last gasp; the Constantinople-based galley fleet fell into decay in the aftermath of Uluj Ali's triumphant return and never regenerated.
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>>1220018
And despite all that the Venetians surrendered and the Spaniards made no gains whatsoever.
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>>1218334
First colony outside of the planet? I imagine that would have as much if not more impact on humanity.
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>>1220029
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>>1215926
>United Irishmen
>irish meme magic putting us on the unintentionally right side of history once again
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>>1219897
Anglos have no problem with spaniards. It's just that you're irrelevant nowadays and so we pay no heed to you.
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>>1219995
that was really impressive for a state that got forged from three different provinces from three different "occupants".
i wonder how they pulled that off
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>>1213809
Italians were always side switchers even before wwi
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When Bolívar and San Martín met after sandwiching the Spaniards.
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>>1219738
It's the winter of 1776 and the Continentals had been getting bitch-slapped for almost 6 months by the British. Washington hatches a plan to cross the Delaware River under dark Christmas Eve, to ambush a large force of Hessian mercenaries. The Continentals are able to win handily thanks to the dual surprise of attacking during winter, and across a river at night. It is signifigant as it is the first substantial victory for the Continentals of the war. The story often goes that if it hadn't been for this victory, the Revolution would have been doomed. I'd argue that Saratoga was much more significant, but that's the popular perception.
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>>1220052

>what is the black legend
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>>1215122
>Hannibal passed by where I live.
Amazing.....
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>>1220851
>there's a legend that says that Hannibal founded my city

Sad it's just a legend.
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>>1216126
>an organised army with planes and tanks wins the war against unwashed horde of mongols equipped with forks

well, for poland standards, i'ts a miracle
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>>1212061

>leading them to the Holy Land that God had promised them

Auschwitz?
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Literally determined the fate of Europe and European culture
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>>1212000
Napoleon Returns from Elba and faces the soldiers sent to confront him.

Louis XVIII’s new government, terrified at the news that the great man was back in France but certain that he could quickly be brought to heel, had already declared that it was every soldier’s duty to shoot Napoleon on sight. As Napoleon’s band approached Grenoble, a royalist General made a stand with his troops at a narrow pass approaching the city, near the village of Laffray.

Napoleon was determined that his return to power would be a bloodless coup; that the people of France would be seen to have welcomed him back with open arms. A messenger was sent to the troops at Laffray.

‘The Emperor is on the point of advancing towards you. If you fire he will be the first to fall and you will answer for it to the whole of France."

Napoleon continued to walk on, to within easy range of the guns.

‘Soldiers, I am your emperor. Know me! If there is one of you who would kill his Emperor, here I am’.

He threw open his famous grey greatcoat, inviting a shot.

It was more than the government soldiers could bear; they abandoned their weapons and ran towards the invaders, shouting ‘Vive l’Empereur!’

They tore the white royalist cockades off their shakos and threw them to the ground. They clamoured around Napoleon, reaching out to touch him, weeping. Their great leader was back amongst them.

The hapless officer offered his sword to Napoleon and may well have feared the worst. Instead he was swept into a forgiving embrace.

From this moment on, Napoleon’s pitiful invasion began to turn inexorably into a victory parade towards Paris: he was to enter the capital only twenty days later, carried into the Tuileries on the shoulders of an adoring army. Louis XVIII and his aristocratic supporters had already left the country
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>>1212184
Since I was young I've always fancied that Tolkien based the Rohirrim charge at Minas Tirith on this.
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>>1212025
And that is?
Of course it's romanticized, but he did cross the rubicon with his men, as the image shows.
What huge difference was there?
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>>1217922
THE menorah.
The original one.
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The day I was born
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>>1212025
>>1214418
what's wrong?
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>>1218155
>anything that is against leftist ideology
>/pol/

please go away and let people have a discussion, you nit
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>>1221049
>>1219001
>>1220926
I will say, there has been a huge influx of /pol/ lately, so he's probably just jumpy
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>>1221072
Has there? Things were a thousand times worse when /his/ just started.
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>>1221094
I see waves of it.
the first week or two was pretty bad, but you could tell a 'fuck off to /pol/ attitude caught on, and the shitposters got bored and left.
But back early in the year they came back for another couple weeks or so, and then left again.
This time, I think it's summer fags who weren't on 4chan a lot since /his/ was made, and treat it exactly as they shouldn't; /pol/ without flags.
If the past shows anything, they'll realize that it's more fun for them to shitpost on /pol/ rather than shit up /his/ sooner or later.
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>>1220972
i cry erry tiem :<
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Why does Ösmaniye breed so much jealousy and hatred? Are most ITT greek/armenian diaspora?
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>>1221183
It's "Osmanli" mate.
/his/ is a bit touchy when it comes to Constantinople/Istanbul. Some are even butthurt.
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>>1220952
edgy
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>>1221183
Because we're on the right side of history.

Maybe you don't believe it, but that's almost certainly because you've been fed Turkish propagada all your life

Your question is akin to asking "Why do communists get so much hatred? Are most posters American here?"
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>>1221311
Turks were the good guys of history. Prove me wrong.
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>>1212000
Romans execute Christ.
Christianity kills Roman Gods.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r-bQEiklsK8
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>>1221346
They're Muslims.
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>>1221311
>"""""right""""" side of any historical position
opinion instantly discarded. history is a matter of interpretation you mong. speaking of your mong ancestors who was right in the mongol invasions? its irrelevant again because each side is convinced of their righteousness.

Either you're incredibly immature or just simply butthurt

Zindabad Osmanli
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>>1221346
well, they lost a few armenians in the mountains when they all went for a hike
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>>1220977
>Poles show up fucking late as shit and take credit for the victory
>Rohirrim show up fucking late as shit and take credit for the victory
Sounds about right
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>>1220978
>>1221037
The armours and shields are from the wrong period.
The centurions crests should be facing forward not sideways.
Caesar looks like Karl Franz
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>>1221349
never thought about it this way
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>>1221383
>get attacked by all sides
>area turns into a warzone
>evacuate the armenian civilians
>they get attacked by kurish gangs

I don't see your point. Turks did nothing wrong.
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>>1221374
Yes. They were muslim. And they were more tolerant to non-muslims then christians were to non-christians. Imagine that. You can see why I say Turks were the good guys.
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>>1221601
oh wow, there's no iron in your post...
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>>1221617
That's because I'm not wrong. They were attacked on all sides. A war they didn't start. And just because they didn't lost the allies hate them. They couldn't win by violence so now they try to win with disgusting propaganda.

Turks were the good guys in the face of christian agression. See what happened in Africa and Americas. Hell see what happened between Europe themselves. The Ottomans were the only ones to challenge the eternal European and their savage lust for conquest.
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>>1221633
Mehmet, I think you should put less sugar in your çai.
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Heraclius' Great Army marching into Armenia, the entirety of Rome's standing army marching out for a great, final triumph against the Persians that had plagued them for centuries, the last truly great Roman Offensive until the rise of Islam.

You may say that Byzantium was not Rome, but please at least think of Heraclius, his empire torn apart by the Persians, half occupied, summoning his entire force, every free soldier in the Empire, and marching at their head into Armenia, hoping to defeat the Persians in a Coup de Grace, and managing this impossible feat, managing to get past innumerable difficulties to pull off this insane military maneuver, only to then return home to rebuild the empire for four years until the Arabs suddenly sally forth from their desert and smash his only standing army east of the Taurus mountains. Imagine the horror, the sheer misery of that news.

The man had fought for years to rebuild the empire, only to see it crushed and overwhelmed. He had won perhaps the greatest Pyrrhic victory of history, defeating the Empire's greatest foe, and in doing so dooming both ancient Empires.

I pity him. Even the most anti-Byzantine posters here must do the same. Just imagine the abject misery of completing your life's work to see it trampled over, lost forevermore.
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>>1219897
it's because of this fucking nigger, la deshispanizacion de las amercias fue un error
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>>1221650
Boohoo both the Persians and Byzzies still had bigger armies then Ar*bs. Stop looking for excuses. They got btfo fair and square.
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>>1221349
Except Rome did not kill Christ. The Jews did. I mean this entirely unironically. The Pharisees made the case against Jesus Christ, and when Pilate declared him innocent the mod demanded he be convicted. As such, Christ was executed by order of the masses of Judea, not the Romans.
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>>1221671
I'm not going to disagree with you. I will point out that I said absolutely nothing about the Arabs winning due to any unfairness, I just said that they sallied out of Arabia and destroyed his standing army. They got beaten fair and square. But it's still sad, to imagine how Heraclius must have felt after the loss of his life's work. That was my point.
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>>1221676

>he believes the Roman propaganda that made it into the New Testament
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>>1214371
Underrated post
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>>1220048
You will be upset to hear that they were all protestants m8. Don't forget that they lost.
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>>1221633
>Spends 300 years trying to conquer parts of Europe
>Would like to do more conquest but such a shitty state that it stagnates for 150 years.

Both the Turks and the euros had intentions to conquer, one was able to and gets called evil but they are both as bad as each other intention wise
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>>1217845

>scots still holding on to the one victory out of two thousand years of losses.

Don't forget who's on your money, it's not Robert the Bruce dummy.
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>>1212516
Kingdom of Heaven was literally antichristian and anti crusades propaganda. End the Jewish monopoly
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>>1222182
>antichristian
>anti crusades

That's not propaganda, that's just common sense.
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>>1221650
At least he will always have memes.
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>>1212151
YES, this, PLEASE this, it's also much more interesting as a subject..
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>>1222206
I genuinely miss Bush
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>>1212123

I guess no one had to go in for work that day.
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>>1212205
To think western civilization could have ended that day
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>>1219897
We suffered the same fate, but least you are mentioned now and then, we are just the CR7 country, like we don't have a based history...
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Epicly funny
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>>1212142
>Cortez on HBO

would watch

Magellan might make a cool show, too.
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>>1222298
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>>1218334
First of all,

>leaving out Apollo 1

Second, yes, but it begins to look like the Chinese will have to do it.
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>>1212254
As a Jew, first century history makes me so fucking sad
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Finnish soviet war
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>>1219882
Monkeys have tails.
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>>1212932
They are Western, m8
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>>1219999
Was fought at and for a bridge,
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>>1219995
Why was the Soviet army not massively larger?
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>>1221676
Local crowds had no authority to order the Roman procurator to do anything. They might have lynched Him, but they did not execute Him, that was a Roman prerogative.
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>>1212648
>No one has made paintings depicting George Washington jumping up and down for joy when the French fleet trapped Cornwallis, as some sources have indicated.
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>>1222331
>implying we dont
What is the coccyx?
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>>1222306
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>>1220052
>Anglos have no problem with spaniards
My sides
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>>1221611
>devsirme
>jizya
>theocracy
>turning its holdings into shitholes

Real nice guys.
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>>1222359
>local crowds had no autorithy

You don't think Pilate feared a jewish uprising?
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>>1222324
Start shit, get hit m8
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fall_of_Constantinople

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Early_Muslim_conquests

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Annual

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Crusade

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/People%27s_Crusade

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fifth_Crusade

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seventh_Crusade

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eighth_Crusade
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>>1212000
The Easter Rising
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>>1220576
It was all Pisudsky. Basically, his whole army was routed and retreated in disarray across most of Poland.
So he spent some days, locked up in his study working out a plan. It relied on perfect timing by the commander, and the officers beneath him, and was heavily criticized by many high ranking officers and experts, from Polish officers to French advisors, who believed it to be amateurish. However, there was a general feeling that if the capital fell, all would be lost.
That desperation was the only thing that got the officers to go along with him.

See pic related. The plan was to lure the Soviets in to an unorganized attack, then sweep around the Soviet southern flank, and push up 50 to 100 km from south of Warsaw to East Prussia. It was extremely risky though. If the front didn't hold, and the timing was miscalculated, the Polish forces would have been thrown into chaos. Leaving Warsaw defenseless in the face of the Soviet Army.
Also noteworthy, the plan seemed so desperate and inept, that when the Soviets intercepted it, they discarded it as a poor deception attempt.

Anyways, he did time the attack correctly, and the Soviets did fall into the trap, which lead to a rout of the whole North Western Red Army.

I suggest reading up on him, he's an amazing man. He died four years before WWII. If he was alive at the time, I think the Soviets would have been more trepidatious in invading again.
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>>1221671
>sources
>medieval *Arabs*
lol
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>>1212000
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>>1218334
First child born off-world.
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>>1222324
You shouldn't have killed the messiah bro.
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>>1212959
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Damnatio_memoriae#Similar_practices_in_other_societies
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>>1217909

>A.D.
>not C.E.

Truly those were barbaric times, those fucking shitlords.
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>>1226919
>History's most epic moments
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http://latinamericanhistory.about.com/od/latinamericaindependence/p/09bolivarcrossesandes.htm

One of Latin America's few bright spots. Damn shame Bolivar's dream of ruthless totalitarianism took hold seeing as subhumans are in control now.
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I wish I could rememember who it was... but a certain Seleucid emperor took a shit in the synagogue at Jerusalem, after those pesky Jews revolted (and lost, of course)
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>>1226960
But the Jews actually beat the Seleucids?
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inb4 some edgelord mentions the Holocaust
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>>1226964
Not in this case. The fucking emperor took back Jerusalem and took a big heaping shit on their altar.
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>>1226944
Yup.
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>>1226972
WEW didn't know about this, will have to look into.

Anyways, you're a jew living in Ireland?
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>>1226976
No. I'm an American mutt, claim to be of Irish descent, and also happen to look like a Jew.
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>>1226985
>Everyone on a slow board needs to know of my ethnic composition and phenotypes, all spelled in a funky way, too!
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>>1226994
Precisely
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>>1212061
>Jews are cool
I bet I know who wrote this post baka
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>>1215959
>not understanding a common expression
Kill yourself retard
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