GiP History Thread: It's like Drunk History, but actually knowledgeable

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Nostalgia4Dogges: Jun 18, 2004; Only emojis can express my pure, simple stupidity.

I love random useless historical factoids <1500 AD

Band of Thebes is pretty dope. An elite Military unit, 150 gay couples with the idea that you'll harder for your loved one. They were stomping fools left and right and contributed greatly to the fall of Sparta. Well, until Alexander the Greats dad stomped them out or w/e

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Nostalgia4Dogges: Jun 18, 2004; Only emojis can express my pure, simple stupidity.

The gently caress? History thread and y'all talking about war hammer and Star Wars?

:yikes:

# ¿ Feb 27, 2016 00:33

Nostalgia4Dogges: Jun 18, 2004; Only emojis can express my pure, simple stupidity.

This thread loving sucks

canyoneer posted:

The battle of HMS Speedy vs. Spanish xebec El Gamo is a pretty great story. A 14 gun sloop crewed by 50 men takes on a 32 gun frigate crewed by 300 men. Through a flag ruse, Speedy rolls up alongside the Gamo and fires cannons at point blank. The frigate was so much bigger than the sloop, that she couldn't depress her guns far enough downward to return fire into the smaller ship. Whenever the Spanish marines would put together a boarding party to hop onto Speedy, Speedy separated at enough distance that the marines couldn't leap across, but also that Gamo couldn't fire on Speedy. Eventually, Speedy puts together a boarding party which consisted of literally everybody on the ship except the surgeon (tasked with holding the ship's wheel to keep them close). Those 50 hop onto the ship carrying 300 men and begin hand to hand combat, with Speedy's captain shouting back (in Spanish, of course) to the surgeon helming the empty ship to send the rest of the boarders across. The Spanish captain surrendered, and that's the story of how Lord Thomas Cochrane captured a better equipped ship while outnumbered 6-1.

The PYF historical fun fact thread is dope

# ¿ Feb 27, 2016 05:14

Nostalgia4Dogges: Jun 18, 2004; Only emojis can express my pure, simple stupidity.

Samovar posted:

Do you know that there has been a recorded instance of a navy losing to a cavalry charge? Well, now you do.

# ¿ Mar 3, 2016 05:43

Nostalgia4Dogges: Jun 18, 2004; Only emojis can express my pure, simple stupidity.

Genocide Tendency posted:

I thought you Brits worshiped a statue of Churchill every morning before you leave for work...

Was I told wrong?

What I thought too

# ¿ May 1, 2016 02:17

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