What does /his/ know about Battle of Lepanto?
amazingly little. I just learned about it recently. It was apparently a very pivotal battle where the turks got completely devastated. It should be up there with Cannae and Waterloo and Stalingrad but it's obscure for some reason. I especially enjoyed reading about those gargantic battleships that the Italians used, i had never heard of those ships before.
Spain, Papal States and Venice allied against Turks 'cause they conquered Cyprus to Venice and they threatened Malta.
Alliance was short. After Lepanto, Venice got out and started to negociate with Turks. Yes, Alliance was done for Venice and they do the retard.
Anyways, Cervantes lost one hand there and Don Juan de Austria consolidated himself as hero
>>1100967
Turks rebuilt their navy in a few years.
What's your favourite WWII operation? Mine is Operation Mincemeat
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Mincemeat
British intelligence operations are just so comfy.
>>1100633
WWII is pleb history.
>>1100640
kill yourself faggot
Is this guy the Gary Stu of his time ?
>Rich, a successfull entrepreneur
>Popular with girls
>Handsome
>Everyone loves him
>European monarchs idolized him
>Makes his enemies ridiculous
>>1100576
No, because you could argue literally anyone is a Gary Stu if you present enough of their positive aspects whilst ignoring their bad.
Also, much of what you said is patently false.
Please shitpost elsewhere.
Arrian is the greatest Gary Stu. He was great at everything he did.
>Best historian of his age
>Best philosopher of his age
>Great hunter
>Governor of Roman provinces
>Great military leader that destroyed a big Alan invasion
Who the fuck is Gary Stu?
Who's the Moe of history?
moe
probably moe
Moe
>Olga of Kiev is a saint for spreading Christianity to Russia
So why is Isabella of Castile not a Saint when she spread Christianity to the Americas?
>>1100092
HHHNNGGGG
>>1100092
Latin Americans are Catholics and do not appreciate a cunt who sent murderous conquistadors being a saint.
>>1100092
Add your might to that of the Lobby for her canonization:
>http://www.queenisabel.org/
>There were later allegations that the Russian commander Count Tottleben had received a personal bribe from the Prussians to spare the city, and he was subsequently tried and found guilty of being a spy.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raid_on_Berlin
>Then, in January 1762, Frederick received the news that the Empress Elizabeth of Russia had died on 5 January: "The Messalina of the North is dead. Morta la Bestia", wrote Frederick on 22 January.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miracle_of_the_House_of_Brandenburg
>Elizabeth of Russia
>most humane Russian Monarch
>Frederick calls her "Messalina" because he lost the war
Seems like if the Russians didn't spare them out of pity, there'd be no Germany today.
>>1100083
That's literally German history in a nutshell.
Someone always took pity. Funnily enough. Germans never pity anyone.
>>1100083
>Yet another MUH GERMANS SUCK thread.
This /int/ style country bashing needs to go back to its board seriously.
Fred the Great was still the man who established a modern Prussian state, stole Silesia from the Austrians, and set Prussia on the path to becoming a leading power among German states.
>>1100108
By pure luck and pity from Russia.
/his/'s thoughts on the Islamic Republic of Pakistan.
Pic unrelated
>>1100045
>islamic
I don't like them
>>1100045
Fledgling Nuclear Power. Not friends with their neighboring Fledgling Nuclear Power.
- 2 Nuclear Powers at a standoff over a glacier at an altitude of 19,000 ft.
/his/torically the Kashmiri question during the post British partition of India has caused tension which could have been avoided and is unlikely to be resolved any time soon.
There are serious concerns over Pakistani Nuclear command and control. People got Nuke and planet is lucky only US has used them (though I don't know if that was good) enough
Beautiful women
One of the greatest and most gifted countries. But sady it is ruled by fanatic mulvis who are hell bent on destroying it. It has one of the most ignorant public.
Why was Salahuddin al-Ayyubi so fucking based?
>>1099792
You mean the fucker who got kicked around the land by Richard I?
>>1099792
The Saracen that got his ass handed to him by the Lion Heart himself?
It's 1807 and you're Emperor of the French. What do you do?
Two ladies at the same time.
>>1099193
Literally copy Napoleon except treat the russian situation with caution
>>1099193
Guillotine the Habsburgs and Hohenzollerns
When does history start?
>>1094172
with the greeks
Thucydides
Herodotus if you really want to push it
with jesus
How common a practice was it for knights to wear completely insane things on their helmets?
FRESH OC
>>1086000
SHOULDA PAYED THE DENBTS
>>1086031
> t. Veneto Schlomonico
Favourite castle?
I haven't built it yet.
>Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
How is this a legitimate field of study?
>>1102293
It isn't. Though they like to put them under the category of social """sciences""" for budget reasons.
>>1102302
No they don't, it's an HFA subject at my university.
>Women, gender, and sexuality are not worthy of study
Sounds like someone didn't think their post the whole way through.
Ian Smith:
>Britain decolonizes and decides to sing Kumbaya with blacks on their own tiny island
>Doesn't work so well for Kenya, Uganda, etc., blacks run whites out, everything turns to shit
>Rhodesia sees that blacks simply aren't ready to assume control of a nation-state overnight
>Says "FuckThat.bmp"
>Declares independance
>Implements a system whereby blacks will be raised
>Soviets and PRC start supporting black insurrectionists all around the south-east of Africa (this is where Mugabe comes in)
>Cause shitstorm for Rhodesia
>Bush wars ensue (Rhodesia kicks ass, but it's going to be endless war)
>USA and Britain won't help 'coz Ian Smith a raysuss and we need to distract from our own race issues here (South Africa is cool though because they're way more conservative than Rhodesia)
>Only SA is left to support (via supply convoys up one highway), but eventually even this stops
>Rhodesia, backs to the wall decide to cave and hold elections
>Mugabe intimidates voters outside the poll stations to vote for him with goons
>Mugabe takes over
>Generally keeps things running smoothly for a while
>War buddies start demanding their gibsmedats they were promised
>'Gabe starts repossessing/redistributing white farmland
>Blacks who don't know how to farm land now own it
>Everything turns to shit (crop failure, hyperinflation)
>"We would just steal, but there is nothing left to steal anymore."
>>1100002
so are white people to blame for post mugabe zimbabwe too?
>>1100010
I am defending Smith. He did nothing wrong
>>1100002
That Mugabe's war buddies started demanding gibsmedats wasn't the problem in and of itself, just someone embezzled all the gibsmedats so he had to start parcelling out land instead
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