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What are some interesting pieces of history near where you live?
Pic related is HMS Victory, the Man 'o' War commanded by Lord Nelson in the Battle of Trafalgar, where he defeated Napoleon.
>>51868262
Looks like a ship for sissies.
Did you dock her so the Constitution wouldn't free the fuck out of it?
>>51868262
Live in california temporarily, got some missions a few hours away
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>>51868309
>USS Constitution
>44 guns
>HMS Victory
>104 guns
I live near where the de soto expedition landed
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hernando_de_Soto#1539:_Florida
>>51868365
Why you hiding then faggot?
I live on reclaimed land. Large naval battles where fought where I now live.
>>51868416
>>51868503
Don't you have any pictures to post
>>51868538
![robin-hoods-grave-2[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/y4fuhbT.jpg "robin-hoods-grave-2[1].jpg")
The grave of Robin Hood
http://www.italia.it/en/travel-ideas/culture-and-entertainment/the-egyptian-museum-of-turin.html
>>51868262
I guess the mansion of the guy who founded my city along with the rest of South Florida.
The ulama game is still played in my state
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ulama_(game)
>>51868262
Not an item, but we have the mitres mountain as witness of the Battle of Monterrey in the mexican-american war.
>>51868892
>>51868309
the constitution is in drydock right now for maintenance
>>51869002
>>51869030
>>51869030
The Worlds Largest Rocking Horse, be humbled by its immense size and majesty.
>>51869086
kek
>>51868262
Live in portsmouth? I visited the Victory when I went to the UK. Standing on the spot where Nelson got shot at trafalgar gave me some pretty intense history feels.
>>51868835
wow cool, whenever im in a city i always think: What was here before we came and poured concrete on everything? That painting+picture is exactly what I pictured in my head.
>>51868262
>where he defeated Napoleon
>>51868365
>HMS Victory
>not sea worthy
>USS Constitution
>floats and sails under own power
Pretty sure we know which ship would win.
>>51868262
Basically this and only this
>>51868262
>He defeated Napoleon
I wasnt aware Napoleon was a naval commander. Pretty sure he wasnt, in fact.
>>51868432
You need to pick your shitposting battles wisely. Your ship objectively looks shittier in this instance.
>>51869624
>British ship has more guns
>more guns
>mighty Brits beating America at their own sport
Oh dear how embarrassing for the Yanks.
![Sir_Arthur_Wellesley,_1st_Duke_of_Wellington[1].png](https://i.imgur.com/SdGuuBY.png "Sir_Arthur_Wellesley,_1st_Duke_of_Wellington[1].png")
>>51869694
>>51869579
Bletchley Park a few miles away
>>51869774
It's a much bigger ship. The US heavy frigates had way more guns with heavy canon balls than a typical frigate from the era and a decent bit faster. They were also much more resistant to smaller canon balls similar sized ships of the era carried and how the Constitution got the nickname "Iron Sides". The US naturally built them to kill Muslims in the Barbary Wars. Fast, deadly, and hate Muslims. Honestly don't see how they could be any more American.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbary_Wars
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Original_six_frigates_of_the_United_States_Navy
>>51868262
>defeated Napoleon
also I'd argue that Aboukir Bay was his greatest achievement. It hurt Napoleon much more than Trafalgar did. By Trafalgar the Franco-Spanish navy was p. weak.
![internment-pictures-i10-large[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/zppU4g4.jpg "internment-pictures-i10-large[1].jpg")
Live near one of the main WW2 Internment camps in Aus, it was mainly for Italian "spies". Some of the buildings that survived got converted into homes and as a kid I had a friend who lived there. We used to go digging around for skeletons but we never found any :(
>>51868262
My university lies 15 km from Waterloo.
>>51870081
I know a game where you should steal some shit and kill a professor there.
I live near Kennesaw Mountain. Did my Eagle Scout project on it too
>here
pic related should be known by now
the inventor of the steam engine's family home is right down the lane
>>51868365
>a shore battery vs a warship
>>51870815
is that the one that used to be a mosque?
>>51869775
Overrated hill camper.
>>51870870
no offense, but it looks like you only snipped the minarets a bit
>>51870928
you clearly have no idea about mosque architecture m8
>>51871025
you say that because you have not an imagination
Bayfront Park, Miami 1933: An Italian bricklayer tried and failed to assassinate FDR (taxi driver style) shortly before he was supposed to take office. Instead he wound up killing the mayor of Chicago.
the reason he failed: he was a manlet and had to stand on a shaky chair to be able to see him over the crowd.
>>51871025
>This flag
>knowledge about mosque architecture
>>51871048
>>51871080
I've never seen a mosque in my life tbqh
>>51871134
>you clearly have no idea about mosque architecture m8
You mind explaining this then
>>51871161
>what is general knowledge
>what is the internet
>>51869774
>implying the later american ships of the line were not vastly superior to everyone elses
live oak cant be beat
>using tiny 12 pounders on your first rate topdecks instead of just using 42 pounder cannonades
you would have been obliterated m8
that said the victory is pretty cool. the RN uses it to assign naval personell that are not otherwise assigned to any naval command (things like political advisers or other sorts of people not attached to an actual navy owned thing)
because of that the victory has like, over a hundred 'crew'. Though most never even visit it im told.
>>51871189
Okay Molenbeek
REMEMBER IT
>>51868262
> New Zealand
> History
The only thing I can think of is Sir Ernest Rutherfords Den, where he worked before going to Cambridge and splitting the atom. It was set in the original University location in the 19th century.
Kronborg aka Hamlet, sieged a couple of times, was a main money income source for taxing the trade ships in the narrow sound. First stopped in 1866 when an 'murican ship refused and sued the shit outta it
there is a thing as too old to be interesting Tbh
>>51871794
Maori history is pretty big. I know you probably don't care but a lot of people go to nz to learn about maori's unique culture and its good for tourism.
http://www.stuff.co.nz/dominion-post/news/63665000/Maori-studies-captivate-German-student
>>51871048
No, he said that because Europeans are getting a first hand crash course in Islamic culture.
Fort Scratchley. I think the land was originally used for coal mining, but was eventually turned into a fort and modified over the years.
During WW2, the Japs fired torpedoes at the city in an attempt to hit the steelworks. I believe the fort returned fire without orders because relaying messages and getting clearance was taking way too long.
>>51868262
I guess there's the Stone Store and Kemp House, they're the oldest European buildings in NZ, built by the Anglican mission
We have some cool Roman Ruins, but the autonomical government doesn't do shit to conserve them because they're retarded araboos and anything not from the Al Andalus era apparently isn't worth preserving. I hate being an andaloser so fucking much.
