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P-Mack
Nov 10, 2007

The pearl river delta had way too many nooks and crannies to ever stomp out piracy, so it was basically just taking down any given group that got too big for their britches, then coming back three years later and doing the same thing.

Pirates usually wouldn't attack head on, the standard MO was to select the target ahead of time and have a motley crew infiltrate posing as passengers. Then at some predetermined signal they whip out their swords and pistols, off load loot and captives to smaller boats, and disappear. Having jurisdiction split between HK and whichever warlord was running Guangdong at the time also made it easy for pirates to lie low during a crackdown by one government or the other.

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Stairmaster
Jun 8, 2012

Nucken Futz posted:


Do with me what you will.

get rid of igoyougo for god sakes and you'll have the perfect wargame

Rodrigo Diaz
Apr 16, 2007

Knights who are at the wars eat their bread in sorrow;
their ease is weariness and sweat;
they have one good day after many bad

Suger of St. Denis posted:

That summer was very hot, even more punishing than usual, and we found ourselves exhausted, weakened, and completely worn out by its all-consuming heat. The lord King Louis himself suffered another severe attack of diarrhea and dysentery in Paris, and the summer's unbearable misery totally wasted him away. Never lacking in prudence at these moments, he summoned the venerable Bishop Stephen of Paris and the pious Abbot Gilduin of St. Victor to his side; and he made his confession to Abbot Gilduin with great intimacy, for he had built his monastery from its foundations. He recited his confession, and devoutly sought to be fortified for death by the viaticum of the Lord's body. He also wished to be carried to the church of the holy Martyrs to discharge with great humility a vow he had made. But, overcome by the agonies of his illness, he fulfilled with his heart, mind, and will what he could not carry out in deed. He ordered that a carpet be spread on the ground and ashes be shaped on the carpet in the form of a cross. Having been laid upon it by the hands of his attendants, he made himself ready by the sign of the holy cross and sent for this spirit on the kalends of August, in the thirtieth year of his administration of the kingdom and nearly the sixtieth year of his life.

At the very same hour his body was wrapped in a precious cloth and carried for burial the the church of the holy Martyrs. But something happened when his men went ahead to prepare his burial site; it does not seem proper to pass over it in silence. The king had talked with us on occasion, nay many times, about the tombs of the kings, showing pleasure at the thought of meriting burial between the sacred altars of the holy Trinity and the holy Martyrs. There he would obtain forgiveness for his sins by the help of the saints and the prayers of visitors; and in this way, he quietly made his will known.

Before departing with his son, we had made plans with Herveus, the venerable prior of the church, for him to be buried before the altar of the Holy Trinity, on the side opposite the tomb of the emperor Charles, with the altar between them. But this place was already taken by Carloman, king of the French; and what we had proposed could not be done, for it is neither right nor customary for kings to be exhumed. Nevertheless, they defied the belief of nearly everyone that the site had been taken, and examined the location where, as if by some premonition, he had ardently desired to be buried. And they found a space unoccupied that was neither too large nor too small but fit the length and width of his body perfectly. So, in accordance with royal custom, he was buried there amid a multitude of prayers and hymns, with very solemn and devoutly conducted funeral rites.Now he awaits his part in the future Resurrection, as near in spirit to the company of the holy spirits as in body to the holy Martyrs, for he lies buried very near them so that he may obtain their aid. "Happy the man who knows in advance the exact place he will lie when the whole world totters in ruins."

879 years ago today


New thread here: forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?noseen=0&threadid=3785167

Rodrigo Diaz fucked around with this message at 23:24 on Aug 1, 2016

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