ITT: Little-known military engagements
>Jew in-fighting
>>910055
>The Eternal Anglo was fighting for Communism
At last I see
>>910055
Russian Civil War is pretty well known imo
>>910036
USSR along with every commie state but romania hated Israel once you hit the mid-1950's
>>910067
Mostly the fault of the Brits to recruit Red Finns running from the civil war in Finland.
Witch refused to fight the Red forces.
>>910076
I know, but the minor wars it spawned aren't.
>>910067
>Murmansk Legion
>Anglo
Fugg :DDDD
>>910045
Savage bruh
>>910076
Not technically a part of the Russian civil war.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heimosodat
>>910010
The biggest war in African history happened just a decade ago actually. Whole of Subsaharan Africa little formed into alliances and went to war.
>>910010
Israel has a lot of weird ones. They've fought Cubans and North Koreans as well.
>>910233
>USA: 3 killed
>Korea: 243 killed
Good Lord
>>910168
czech land is pretty far from bailkal
Why did this happen?
>>910335
Some Czech force took part in the civil war, getting cut off from their allies. Ended up having to move through entire Russia or something y themselves.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Czechoslovak_Legion
>>910045
when will the kasakela answer for their genocide?
reparations now
>>910238
>They've fought Cubans and North Koreans as well.
so
pics or didn't happen
>attack a fort
>lose a ship
>>910238
All I can find about that is some NK pilots flew with Egypt in one of the many wars. Was the Cuban thing similar?
>>910352
Did you not read the article? The other side was completely wiped out, there's no one to pay reparations to.
>>910459
>Cuba sent troops to fight with the Arabs in he Yom Kippur War.
Why?
>North Korean pilots in the war of attrition and special forces during their raid on Syria's reactor in 2008
what are the best Koreans doing in Syria?
>>910485
Probably helping with that reactor the Syrians were trying to build.
>>910010
>>910010
battle of sabine pass
>>910492
yeah but like for the uranium or what? I just don't see the point.
>>910503
What does heavy means in that case? Twice the numbers of deaths on the opposite side? Ten times?
>>910514
Probably a lot. Otherwise Greeks wouldn't leave the causalities as ambiguous and we know that Ariobarzanes managed to hold off Alexander from taking the capital with his 1000-2000 remaining men for over a month.
>>910544
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_the_Persian_Gate
Is that screenshot manipulated or is there some deep fuckery going on?
>>910577
The "Arrian" estimate is made up.
>>910067
>he doesn't know that British troops were actively fighting against the Bolsheviks during the Russian Civil War
>he doesn't know that the Murmansk Legion were Finns but his brains are so rotted by dank maymays he has an instant Pavlovian reaction to blurt out words he doesn't understand
>>910577
Considering the losses the Persians had at Issus, and especially following that Gaugamela only three months earlier, the numbers that Arrian postulates Ariobarazanes having are kind of Herodotus level of bullshit.
I have no idea why that's honestly allowed on the article.
>>910581
>The Persian Gate was only a couple of meters wide at the point of ambush.
Damn. That's impressive, strategically. Still, the fact that the 700-2000 estimate is from the iranian encyclopediae leads me to believe there's more to it.
>>910602
Yeah, 40k seems like absolute bullshit. It wouldn't even make sense in an ambush.
![416e6d6a98[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/FvoQ074.jpg "416e6d6a98[1].jpg")
>sweating intensifies
>>910503
>300 Persians against thousands of Greeks
POETRY
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gombe_Chimpanzee_War
>>910943
>Kahama BTFO
>>910394
The Eternal Kahama is a truly savage race.
>>910335
>Why did this happen?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Czechoslovak_Legion
>>910513
Pariah states gotta stick together ya know.
>>910010
This one is a bit unfair. Israel's best pilots ambushed a routine soviet flight filled with rookies.
>>910359
Delete this post.
>>910513
Few possibilities:
1) Cash money. Norks are desperate for foreign exchange, which is relatively easy for Syrians to get.
2) Practice. Because of issue 1, it's difficult for the Norks to build and operate their reactors. So they'll be happy to help you get yours up and running, just to get the practical experience in with it.
North Korea supplies it's own Uranium, so that's not really an issue.
Best war coming through
>>910010
>>910198
>i was playing in sandboxes while this was happening
Jesus christ,
>>910359
small time.
>>910709
>marengo
>little known military engagements
No
>>912296
kek
>>910198
Russia again losing to asians.
When China decides it wants siberia russia is fucked.
>>912808
Man, African warfare is so underrated
>>912827
How far behind of Russia was China at that point of history?
That time when Albania saved Europe from Ottoman invasion
>>912867
i love kebab removal battles
>>912856
Yeah
It it is a literal clusterfuck
>>910010
Burmese-Thai War of 1590.
Well, the episode when Thailand panicked at burma's invasion and sent a call for halp across East Asia.
Burma was the warrior-nation par excellence in Southeast Asia -fuckers defeated Mongols in a land battle for fucks sake- but Thailand was of strategic economic importance.
So the cunts who answered Thailand's SOS were the following.
>Hideyoshi's Japan, who sent a small force of Samurai.
>Chinese mercenaries looking for a buck.
>Portuguese looking to look sweet for Thailand and sold them cannons and manned them with their own gunners.
>Spaniards in the Philippines who sent Native Filipino Musketeers among their native Christian allies instead.
This was the same war where the supposed elephant duel between the King of Siam and the Crown Prince of Burma took place.
>>912857
Not much. Both cunts were still using horse archers for fucks sakes.
Not so much remarkable for the casualties as what happened during the battle.
The English army was harassed by javelins and musket fire from a forest, so they decided to hurry themselves into a bog where they thought the Irish wouldn't follow them.
All their cannons got stuck in the bog, and they marched ahead of it so the oxen wouldn't get spooked.
When they emerged on the other side of the bog, they found more or less the entire Irish army waiting for them.
So being the tatical geniuses that they were, they decided to march slowly back across the bog in full formation.
>>912881
That atually sounds pretty cool.
>>912931
One product of that war was the adoption of Katana-style mountings for native Thai swords. Being derived from the Chinese Dao, the Thai Daab fitted perfectly with the Katana style hilts.
>>912857
Negligable, though not for the reason this idiot thinks so.
>>912890
The Russians had access to muskets and pikes which were comparable to the quality of the Qing. But the Russians were at the absolute ass end of their logistics and communication lines. It took month for the Russians to even figure out this happened. And it wasn't a regular military outfit involved on their end. They were explorers/fur trappers/pioneers/adventurers whatever you want to call them.
I could post literally any Hungarian battles, so only going to post some with maybe little suprising location/result.
First, Hungary conquers Southern Italy
>>912972
Russians...weren't quite big on pike warfare this far east.
Qing Chinese weren't big on pike/infantry usage that far northeast either. It was cavalry country.
>And it wasn't a regular military outfit involved on their end.
Ssssort of. They were Cossacks after all.
Hungary conquering Vienna
a small shitty castle repelling a large Ottoman force by some miracle
>>910010
Huh?
Details?
When did this happen?
>>912912
Henry Begenal was such a fucking idiot.
>On February 10, 1326, David of Hrodna led 1200 Lithuanian men to join the Polish forces.[2] The joint army looted and robbed Frankfurt,[9] Berlin,[14] and surrounding territories. Thus, the pagans reached Central Europe and struck the Holy Roman Empire which shocked western rulers.[7] Not meeting any organized resistance, they plundered churches and monasteries for about a month. Reportedly, they took 6,000 prisoners as slaves and much booty. The loot was large enough to allow Samogitian duke Margiris to pay 20,000 florins to King John of Bohemia when he raided Medvėgalis in 1329.[15] German chronicles, including Nikolaus von Jeroschin, vividly described atrocities committed by the invaders. They were particularly scandalized by pagan Lithuanians who showed no respect for Christian symbols, establishments, or personnel.
>>910078
>but romania
Can someone explain why Romania was the exception?
>>912988
> It was cavalry country.
Not really. It was north of the Amur. We're talking rugged terrain, and pine trees.
Probably most heroic moment of Croatian-Hungary history, the siege of Szigetvar, a pyrrhic victory for Turks; the sieges whole story is a movie tier imho
>150 thousand Turks vs measly 2300 force of Croats and Hungarians, led by count Zrinski
>they greeted the Sultan with walls hung in red cloth and a single cannons thunder
>month of bloody siege, the whole castle slowly turned into nothing but rubble
>Zrinski offered ceasefire and rulership of Croatia, he refuses
>Suleyman dies during the siege, his death is kept secret to not lett mroale drop
>assaults after assaults repelled by Zrinski even when only the small inner castle was left
>at 600 men left, he presses a final breakout attack
>died from 2 musket shots and arrow to head
>nearly every defender slain
>anyone captured alive spared by Turks admiring their courage
>7 men somehow break through and manage to run away
>before the final sortie, the powder magazine is lit on fuse
>Turks break in and find this suprise and
>3000 blows up at once
>estimated 20-35 thousand Turks total died in the battle
>>912856
yeah it's pretty badass, with heroism, courage and a bit of genocide and maybe cannibalism thrown in for good measure
>>913015
True but the isolation in those areas make it cavalry country. Sort of like Tibet who historically were a cavalry people.
>>In 1838 a French pastry cook, Remontel, claimed that his shop in the Tacubaya district of Mexico City had been ruined by looting Mexican officers in 1828. He appealed to France's King Louis-Philippe. Coming to a national's aid, France demanded 600,000 pesos in damages, an enormous sum for the time when the typical daily wage in Mexico City was about one peso (8 Mexican reals). More importantly, the government of Mexico had defaulted on millions of dollars' worth of loans from France. Diplomat Baron Antoine Louis Deffaudis gave Mexico an ultimatum to pay, or the French would demand satisfaction.
>>913164
>600,000 pesos
isn't that like $6?
>>910078
Why?
>>910485
Because Cuba was (?) another soviet puppet state at the time
>>913182
yes. so like the annual BNP of latin america back then.
>>913184
Not him but the Soviets believed that Israel would be socialist and figured it would diminish British hegemony over the Middle-East. They slowly reverted back however to anti-zionism and eventually changed sides completely after the Czech arms deal
>>913232
I'd tought it was because the british support to the colonization
>Both sides claimed victory
>>912867
Skanderbeg is an extremely underrated general.
200 dead 600 wounded
>>913344
>border skirmish involves nearly a million men
>>913462
How did the Ottomans get themselves an empire if they kept getting BTFO so routinely?
I remember hearing about a siege going on for months, maybe even years, but as the defenders were down to a few dozen, they managed to ask for aid from France. The French sent help, but after some time the French knights lost their honour or something, and forced the rest of the fortress to surrender.
Does anybody know about this siege?
>>913496
Unlimited manpower cheat code
>>913556
No idea, but have a Candia
>>913496
European infighting, huge amounts of manpower, decent logistics, I think.
>>910343
getting cut off from their allies. Ended up having to move through entire Russia or something y themselves.
Based. This theme is one of my favourites. Just like muh Anabasis
>>913496
Some awesome commanders, heavy use of artillery and gunpowder, european infighting. They didn't have too big of a manpower until they invaded the mamlukes and conquered cairo.
>>910045
The Kahama were easily the good guys in this fight, when will the eternal Kasakela pay for their crimes?
>>910095
War is hell senpai
The time armed Norwegian peasants rekt the Scottish mercenaries
>>910182
>wewuz empire
Tis young, but I'm sure it counts.
>>914554
Doesnt count no violence=no war
>>914577
but that's the best kind of war
>>914594
>>914577
There were some shots
>Several armed DFO fisheries patrol vessels, and Canadian Coast Guard and Canadian Navy support, intercepted and pursued the Estai, which cut its weighted trawl net and fled after an initial boarding attempt, resulting in a several hours' chase which ended after the Canadian Fisheries Patrol vessel Cape Roger fired a .50 calibre (12.7 mm) machine gun across the bow of the Estai. The Canadian Coast Guard Ship CCGS Sir Wilfred Grenfell used high-pressure fire-fighting water cannon to deter other Spanish fishing vessels from disrupting the operation. Finally, armed DFO and RCMP officers boarded the Estai in international waters on the Grand Banks.
>>913496
The same way the British managed to keep an empire, they lose most battles except for the final and most important ones.
Spain explain yourselves
>>914704
we got lazy
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prague_uprising
>Anti-Bolshevik Russian Liberation Army teams up with the Red Army and Czech Resistance, turning their backs on Germany and helping liberate Prague.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Prague_(1648)
>Swedish Army captured most of Prague, but was not able to enter the Old Town as a union of armed students known as the "Academic Legion" and the Bohemian army repulsed them multiple times.
>>912867
>ten guns
Were they really that important?
>>912881
>gondor calls for aid
>>913094
BOGGED
>>915010
It means artillery pieces.
>>910577
Their using Arrian. Bare in mind he claimed at Gaugemala the Persians had a force of over 300,000. And considering the amount of men the Acahaemenids lost in both combat and as prisoners to Alexander and his generals at Issus and Gaugamela, its very likely exaggerated bullshit.
>>915010
Artillery pieces, yeah, and they would have been pretty important if used right.
>>914602
>helped by the us
Why? Wouldn't the NK have rathered die than accepting american help?
The Second Battle of Yeonpyeong
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Battle_of_Yeonpyeong
>>913094
GAELED?
GAULED?
>>913023
Muh remember the Alamo
>A peaceful resolution was arbitrated by Kaiser Wilhelm I
>>912808
Great read, fucking hilarious
>>916620
>Negotiated by Willy 1
Seriously?
>that time the British and the Americans teamed up against Canadian rebels.
>>916676
In total, 93 Americans and 58 Patriote prisoners from Lower Canada were transported to Australia after being convicted in Montreal in late 1838 or early 1839.
The aussie punishment... I wouldn't wish it on my worst enemy.
The whole alaskan theatre of WW2 is pretty unknown to most people, shame since the battle of attu was pretty cool
Siege of Jadotville 1960's, in Congo
Irish army vs Belgians, French and African Mercs and Rebels. Results speak for themselves.
>>912881
How fascinating.
The hardened warrior hordes versus the rich fuckers with European technology.
They should make a game or book about this.
>>913484
you see, Ivan...
Robert Munro was a renowned Scottish general who had been Gustavus Adolphus' right hand man in the Thirty Years War and was renowned throughout Europe, and yet somehow made tactical errors more glaring than that of a typical Total War player.
His opponent, Owen Roe O'Neill, had a reputation for avoiding pitched battles. So Munro decided to amass the largest force he could, his strategy being that if his army was big enough then O'Neill would never attack him.
He marched his men 15 miles
Without rest
To intercept an Irish force that he'd heard had been gathering at Benburb. Most of them were on the verge of collapse before the battle even started.
He, for some reason, let the Irish assume a position on a hilltop.
Then he crossed a river to attack them, further exhausting his men and making it harder to retreat.
Then, after wasting all his cannons' ammunition, he ran his cavalry head-on into an Irish pike formation, where they were slaughtered.
Then he kept directing the two halves of his infantry backwards toward the river until they smashed into each other and in the ensuing confusion the entire first rank of both halves was completely annihilated by an Irish musket volley.
Munro retreated with what was left of his cavalry, who were largely inexperienced farmers, and left his infantry, who were mostly veterans, to be cut to pieces by the Irish charge.
The defeat was so devastating it ended Munro's long and storied military career. He came out of hiding to support the Royalists in the English civil war and held out in Carrickfergus. He surrendered to George Monck without a fight, got locked in the Tower of London for five years, and then married a geriatric widow so he could live in her cottage, effectively cucking himself.
>>910078
They hated jews before that as well
This story was a bit of a meme on this board back a few months ago. Here's the story of the Kitona Airlift (also known as the "Kabarebe Blitz")
>Back in the Rwanda at the beginning of the Second Congo War
>Colonel Kabarebe decides to launch an assault directly on the Congo's largest military base.
>He gathers up about 80 men, Ugandans, Rwandans, and various Congolese ethnic groups
>Among them, about 5 different languages are spoken, from Kinyarwanda to English
>Jump across the Rwada-Congo border to an airport, hijack a commercial plane and fly across the DRC to Kitona, near Kinshasa (Remember that this is about the same distance from Paris to Warsaw)
>The only reason the pilot is doing it is because Kabarebe ensured him that the leader of the Kitona base is defecting against Kabila
>Pilot refuses to land until he gets clearance from the base
>Kabarebe's second-in-command uses a radio in the back of the plane to give the pilot the "all clear"
>All the troops are bracing to land in a storm of small arms and artillery fire
>Meanwhile, back in the base, the commander of the base, realizing this is a anti-Kabila attack ACTUALLY DEFECTS AT THAT MOMENT, allowing the pro-Rwandan forces to take control of the Congo's entire air force.
As if the story couldn't get any better:
>Kabarebe tries to use his satellite phone to call Kigali
>forgot the lock-out key
>has to drive all the way to Banana, on the coast to steal a satellite phone
>the key to his original satellite phone was 1234
Unfortunately, Angola became involved in the conflict shortly after this and the troopers involved in the airlift moved to try and blend into Kinshasa urban life. A ton of them were killed in police raids.
>>910709
WHY ARE YOU ALL STANDING AROUND LIKE FRIGHTENED CHILDREN
I'VE BEEN IN THIS POSITION BEFORE AT THE BATTLE OF MARENGO, I LOST THE BATTLE AT 6 O CLOCK AND WON IT BACK AGAIN AT 7!
>>910509
Holy fuck, that's impressive
>>910055
>Karelians betray their Urallic brothers
>>916880
>He forgot his fucking password, which is basically the default password
>>912867
and then they became kebabs :(
Emu Field is located in the desert of South Australia, at 28°41′54″S 132°22′17″ECoordinates: 28°41′54″S 132°22′17″E (ground zero Totem 1 test).[1] Variously known as Emu Field, Emu Junction or Emu, it was the site of the Operation Totem pair of nuclear tests conducted by the British government in October 1953.
It wasn't a test.
All the battles that happen in the US and Canada during WW2. Like the Jap invasion of Alaska, their submarine attacks on California, or the German naval attacks on the entire eastern coast and the gulf of Mexico and their navel battle with the Canadians in lake Eerie
>>916880
Source? Not skeptical at all, but seriously, sources on this are super hard to come across.
>>910514
It means that the best record of the losses is some commander's war journal note of "heavy losses today"
Sign:"As a thanks for NOT demonstrating a brotherhood of arms."
>>912808
That was a good read.
>>910485
>what are the best Koreans doing in Syria?
North Korea is a close ally of Syria. There are North Korean forces in Syria fighting right now, as well as there is like a Kim Il sung park in Damascus
http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2015/08/syria-names-park-capital-korea-founder-150831194857490.html
>>912808
I can't believe real life can be this hardcore
>>910625
>commanders
>soviet union
>Colonel Volgin
>>916864
Soviets hated anybody who tried to be different than their multicultural society. Whether it was Othodox, Jews, Caucasus people, Siberian tribes, etc. everybody was now the same. Hence /pol/ uses cultural marxism for multicultural society.
>>913094
MICKED
>>917386
Most of that was from Dancing in the Glory of Monsters. It's right at the beginning of the section on the second Congo war.
The British paid great honor to General Vladimir Vazov when in 1936 he arrived in Victoria Station in London, by lowering the flags of all their regiments who participated in the battle. The chairman of the British legion Major Goldy said in his speech: "He is one of the few foreign officers whose name features in our history".
the last time that UK say something respectful about bulgaria...
>>913451
this battle never happened. It was invented by the free French propaganda agency.
>>912464
war is hell
>>912856
they are literally the greek polis of our era.
except they dont even know how to read
>>916880
Thats it, im going to read about african "warfare"
Its like comedy, but with genocide
>>913006
their dictator would, i shit you not, basically sell their jews to israel as a way to make money
>>919327
The interesting thing about African warfare is that a lot of the junior officer staff of most of the militaries are extremely competent because they were trained in Europe or China. Likewise, a lot of the enlisted men are highly skilled because they were trained under direct supervision of the junior officers.
The issue is, in the senior officer corps, a lot of the appointments were made for political reasons (for example, many of Zaire's generals were appointed because they were Mobutu's buddies from his hometown). So you get these peasant retards leading what is essentially a modern military, and fuckups on the scale from tragic to hilarious happen all the time (e.g., Zaire paratroopers were issued pots instead of helmets).
It was the same thing for the Zaire military as it was for forces like the FAR (the Rwandan Hutu government's army) and the UPDF (Uganda), but the RPF had a lot less of that corruption and was an effective fighting force that kicked some serious ass. That's why it was able to take over the Congo. Twice. And blow Uganda back to the stone age in the process.
Forgot the pic I intended to post with it...
>>910045
K*HAMA BTFO!!
>>919984
actually kind of depressing how run down it is. Not that I'm expecting much, but for a war memorial it just seems sadder somehow than normal decaying infastructure.
>>910010
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Soissons_(486)
This was 10 years after the Western Roman Empire fell.
I asked a Vietnam war veteran about it and not even he knew
>>920639
What was the battle called?
>>920952
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sino-Vietnamese_War
>>912867
western sources love to grossly exaggerate turkish numbers, nowadays we know that the ottomans probably never really had a population or size advantage against their adversaries, these wikipedia articles use western sources if you look at their pages
for example the number given by the western sources for the ottoman army besieging constantinople as 300-350k, but we know that the armies size is actually only around 50-60k
same goes for a battle with the sultanate of rum, the western source claims that the anatolian turks brought 300k troops to the field, but their predecessor seljuks (who had much more resources available to them) were only able to muster a force of 30k 100 years before at the battle of manzikert which was a decisive battle for the turkish influence over anatolia.
for this siege for example the sources used are:
>albanian
>british
>french
>american
not a single ottoman source provided even though ottomans basically kept records of literally everything they did
just take a look at this page
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Basian
ridiculous claims on the numbers yet wikipedia offers it as truth. any man with half a brain can see that these claims are fictitious
as such using wikipedia pages is retarded for such events and /his/ should probably commit mass suicide to save us from this pseudo-science bullshit
t.cockroach studying stem that is also interested in history
>>910733
kek
>>914730
what the fuck how?
>>921838
>dubious
>better source needed
uh-huh
>>921930
yes i figured
basically muslim propaganda
>>921555
>Your international sources are wrong, and my national ones are right!
>>912881
>cannon
>samurai
>elephants
its like playing Rise of Nations for god sakes
>>922010
>two belligerents in a battle
>information from only one belligerent is used
>wikipedia
lol, this board is literally facebook scientist tier
>>910198
I used to live in Goma when shit went down, I was pretty young tho
>>914687
What I find weird is that in the wars Britain has won, they start off terribly. In the ones they lost, they start out strong.
>>921555
numbers are usually inflated, stop being a cuck
>>922230
Personally I think anyone who sources their argument with wikipedia is immediately dismissable. Any history article on that site that is even slightly obscure generally had dogshit-tier sourcing.
>>921071
The PRC got rocked so bad in this that Mao's handpicked successor lost enough face that the rest of the party rallied around Deng Xiaoping and brought him to power, true story.
>>917511
>losing 1,250 tanks in one battle
WTF
>>922415
>soviets
>strategy
>>916726
>Irish
>good at fighting
>pick one
>>922415
>one battle
it wasn't "one battle" in the sense of a single localized engagement, it was two weeks of fighting across several kilometers
still got btfo tho
>>912867
Any time you read about some obscure battle of small Balkan nations against the ottomans, you can subtract one or even 2 zeroes From the Turkish man count.
>>913023
Read about the Siege of Nagykanizsa.
Its the same thing but turned around, but the Turks managed to win it.
>>913496
Eastern euros loved to overblow the importance of their victories and the size of turkish armies
Many of those legendary one paragraph on wikipedia battles are oral history of those parts of the world (mostly for building a national identity) and never even happened.
Meanwhile you never hear about their losses.
>>922519
if you said that to my face id beat you up
>>922537
You'd suck my smelly cock bitchboy
>>922519
well of course, they need something to feel good about a hundred years of being cucked lol
>>922552
>a hundred years
more like five
>>912989
>Austro-Hungarian war
Against who?
>>922539
id suck it dry you faggot
>>912808
Recently finished 'Shake Hands With the Devil' for a class, and reading that post series is like the sequel to a good novel. Interesting stuff, especially the players coming out of nowhere like france, serbia, and israel.
>>922388
>Governor Sterling sent Adjutant General William Warren Sterling and three Texas Rangers to the new bridge to defend the Texas Highway Commission workers
>The next day, Governor Murray declared martial law at the site, enforced by Oklahoma National Guardsmen, and appeared at the site armed with a revolver
Badass
>>917331
They changed their minds later but it was too late
>>919967
So being an African soldier is just like an Honor Harrington "Everyone is stupid by me" style milsf novel?
>>910625
Leave it to Poland to actually have the name Kielbasa. Did he fight against soviet colonel Vodka Von Borscht?
>>910244
Both China and Korea had really underequipped and untrained armies at that time
The entire Polish-Soviet War triggers vatniks so much im pretty sure they dont even acknowledge it happening
>equal at 100,000 men
>lose 40,000
>Poles lose 7,000
cyka blyaat
>>923756
>minimum strength is 104,000
>minimum casualties is 110,000
cyka blyaat
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tPqHzFs9vLA
We should have a separate thread on the aftermath of WW1
>>923905
>memeland
also what th fuck was france doing that far east
>>913164
>Meanwhile, acting without explicit government authority, Antonio López de Santa Anna, known for his military leadership, came out of retirement from his hacienda near Xalapa and surveyed the defenses of Veracruz. He offered his services to the government, which ordered him to fight the French by any means necessary. He led Mexican forces against the French, and in a skirmish with the rear guard of the French, he was wounded in the leg by French grapeshot. His leg was amputated and buried with full military honors.
>kek
>>912808
>that was interesting as fuck
>>916880
>>The only reason the pilot is doing it is because Kabarebe ensured him that the leader of the Kitona base is defecting against Kabila
>>Pilot refuses to land until he gets clearance from the base
>>Kabarebe's second-in-command uses a radio in the back of the plane to give the pilot the "all clear"
The absolute madman.
>>910045
WTF!?!?!..... I hate kasakela now
>>919853
Holy shit really? Where can I read about that?
>>923732
Naga also means "naked".
Literally a sausage stripper.
R/ing the great emu wars
>>921838
French missionaries tortured and beheaded by Koreans
French Navy launched a punitive expedition
French and Spanish together against the Vietnamese after the execution of French and Spanish catholic priests
>>923905
>1:6 casualty ratio
fucking massacre
Someone post the greentext of the Russian fleet during the Russo-Japanese War
>>925892
No, it has already been posted more then enough
>>924246
Originally Memeland was a part of the German empire but following the treaty of Versailles it became a highly wanted region between Lithuania (Cause of Memeland's vast Prussian Lithuanian population) and Poland (For compensation for not getting Dazing. Witch was an self governing state at the time)
This was just 3 years after the Polish-Lithuanian war, so tensions were still high.
In the end the LON (by Poland's request) decided to set up a temporary administration there witch were neither Polish nor Lithuanian until they could finally agree on who would get the region. France accepted the task brought to the league of nations and sent about 250 Chasseurs Alpins soldiers to the region (Elite mountain troops) to guard the small administration.
Britain also got the same request but declined.
As the negotiations went down the result came up indecisive and the Lithuanians were unsuccessful in convicting the LON to hand the region to Lithuania. Mainly cause this would be way too expensive. In the end The Lithuanian army decided they wanted to invade the small province, but they were stuck in limbo too as they didn't want to start a full on war with France. So instead they staged a local revolt and followed it with an full on invasion witch forced the French out.
The French government were outraged and threatened Lithuania with all out war, Britain protested as well as Poland. It also was suspected that Lithuania had Soviet support, which meant that if either France or Poland initiated a military response Soviet Russia might intervene and start another war. This didn't worry France witch in February sent back troops to the region and demanded that the rebels would surrender or face all out war witch seemed plausible at the time. However both Britain and Italy had grown sick of the crisis and voted to give the Region to Lithuania.
After some diplomacy, Lithuania accepted to pay reparations and internationalize the Neman River witch in turn ended the crisis.
>>925910
vatnik pls
>>923733
>not present in the area
Fucking lol. How embarrassing that must have been
>>925983
ty m8
>>925983
Two L's.
Memelland. As in 'land of the memel [the german name for the Neman/Niemen river]'
>>910045
Never forget.
Not an engagement, per se, but the existence of the Morman Batallion of the U.S. Army during the Mexican-American war. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mormon_Battalion It was the only religiously-based unit in U.S. military history, and was basically put together to try and get some political favor to get the government to look the other way at their settlement in Utah. (That didn't last long, mostly thanks to their own craziness, but that's another story. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mountain_Meadows_massacre) The battalion made the longest overland march in U.S. military history, through some truly brutal terrain, which ended with their participation in a battle just north of San Diego, which helped ensure Mexican defeat in California.
>>926233
Their trailbreaking also helped open up the southern overland route for western settlement. This had the advantage over the California and Oregon Trails of not crossing the Sierras/Cascades and thus avoiding the possibility of a Donner Party situation if winter caught you. You did have to cross some nasty deserts, but winter would only help the situation and you weren't racing the clock. (This also lead to Pheonix being founded after some Indians literally trolled a California-bound settler into believing that the area was fertile, but whatever.) Once you were on the West coast, it was easy enough to take a coasting ship up to NorCal or Oregon, or go overland to Oregon once the Applegate Trail over the Siskiyous between the Central Valley and Willamette Valley was broken.
If you know where to look, you can still see a lot of their trail as jeep roads in the desert mountains east of San Diego.
>>924549
What an unfortunate name.
Battle of Koregaon : 500 Mostly Dalit Soldiers defeated the 20,000 Maratha Soliders & 8000 Cavalary of Peshwa Leader Peshwa Baji Rao II
>>924419
I mean, even if he didn't know for sure, he had reason to suspect. Kabarebe had served as the Congolese chief of staff after the first Congo War. He had appointed the commander of the airforce base.
>>922388
this would be unthinkable in the US nowadays
>>921555
Came here to say this. Thank you.
Saying this doesn't shadow any nation's success, it just states a fact.
>>921937
I love how everyone is circle jerking when it's albania vs ottomans but when Byzantines lose they are like "muslim propaganda yeh matey"
That is a very well known war. If you had never heard of it and its heavy casualties it's your ignorance really. How do you think Byzantium lost all its power? Do your research before blaming the sources.
>>922010
Tax records are generally going to be better than chroniclers. One relies on bureaucratic autism to minimize waste of resources and ensure no one is overspending at the state's expense, and the other has a story to tell based on guesstimates and theatrical drama, whether it be glory or providence or deflecting/assigning blame and shame.
>>912464
>Part of The Great Depression
>>923732
>Vodka Von Borscht
>Von
>Russian
>>912867
>Albania saved Europe
Its not like they stopped Ottoman expansion into Europe. And its not like Albanians didn't become the Ottomans hounds and henchmen. The entire history of Albania after that is supporting the Ottomans in raiding and pillaging Christian villages and revolting only to have taxes lowered and have Albanians in more prominent positions.
>>912586
based blas de lezo
>>926762
>b-b-but what about that!!
Holy shit, what's with the sudden rise of Araboos lately? Did ISIS learn how to use 4chan?
>>910067
Lloyd George wanted the Bolsheviks to conquer the whole Eastern Europe in 1920.
>>924549
Naked Snake.
>>926971
Calm down. He is just pointing out that medieval sources are pretty biased and the numbers given not that realistic.
>>910045
>women have no place in the battlefield
