HEY GAL posted:

awwwwww

that's a good death, then. tell him hi when you see him next.

ed: everyone i dig is buried at least a 2 hour drive from me

Kemper Boyd posted:

I shall do so. Those dudes would probably seriously fistpump if they heard someone's talking about them 400 years later.

Kemper Boyd posted:

He's buried in the cathedral in my hometown. His tin casket has been put on display there, along with his armor. I usually give a tour to people consisting of "this wrought iron fence is 700 years old", "here is the only queen that's been buried in Finland", "Åke Tott was a big deal and probably The Biggest Deal in Finnish history and boy did he marry well" and "Torsten Stålhandske was one of the best commanders of cav Sweden ever produced and boy did he marry well."

Also: descendants of Stålhandske still leave flowers at his chapel in the cathedral.

Koesj posted:

How about them United Provinces.

HEY GAL posted:

libre office
how do i turn the years 90 degrees so they take up less space and can i pick my own colors on libreoffice?

Pellisworth posted:

I would probably flip the whole thing 90 degrees and have the dates on the Y-axis, then you can add in major battles and events.

HEY GAL posted:

yeah, i definitely want to highlight at least Breitenfeld, Wittstock, and the Pomeranian campaign, because that's what the paper's about

is sigmaplot online? i should finish counting dragoons tonight and then i'll have a completed spreadsheet as well as a csv document

Hogge Wild posted:

Didn't he die childless? Do you have good photos of his mausoleum? What does the text on it say?

Kemper Boyd posted:

Should have clarified, not direct descendants because the noble side of the family has died out. But apparently some people related to him. A tour guide told me this when I wondered about a vase of flowers in the chapel.

It's pretty hard to get decent photos or read the text on his memorial since it's behind one of those fences. If I ever have the chance, I could try to ask the staff if I could get some photos.

Polyakov posted:

Hogge Wild posted:

Was it common for 17th century generals to be childless (or just having illegit kids) because they spent all of their life campaigning?

HEY GAL posted:

anecdotally, i really think so. off the top of my head,

wallenstein: one surviving child, one dead infant
pappenheim: ditto but his son was also a soldier and died in the 40s in a duel, surprising nobody
aldringen: no kids, the noble line he founded is the Clary-Aldringens, that's his sister's kids
gallas: two kids
piccolomini: three kids, all also soldiers, all died before he did. The piccolominis, like the montecuccolis, kinda all were in the military.
tilly: no kids but he's a special case, his nephew was his heir
sporck: two daughters, the noble line he founded was the Swets-Sporcks
holck: was he even married?

can anyone give a comparatively halfassed list of anti-imperialists

HEY GAL posted:

...best queen?

Rodrigo Diaz posted:

the biggest losers of the war. still full of dutch people even today.

Koesj posted:

HEY GAL posted:

...best queen?

HEY GAL posted:

...best queen?

HEY GAL posted:

...best queen?

Kemper Boyd posted:

itym best king

Åke Tott's son, Claes Tott, was one of Christina's favorites and so bad at fuckin' the Tott line died out.

Incidentally, I think there's a relationship between infertility/male impotence and riding horses. That would explain a lot, because all of those dudes spent a ton of their time on horseback. Dunno where I read this and if this is bullshit.

Kemper Boyd posted:

itym best king

Pershing posted:

Not to criticise you, Cythereal, but I think an argument could be made to link instead and mark with a tag.

Pellisworth posted:

Catherine the Great was pretty cool too

OfficialGBSCaliph posted:

Nay.

Polyakov posted:

I'm working on the last post about mines now, i may split it up into two depending on how much i feel like typing tommorrow evening but i wanted to ask if people would want to read another series of posts in a while when im done reading about the topic.

Would people be interested in an industrial overview of production in the World Wars? I got very excited today when i found the US and UK official histories of wartime production and a book by a professor at my university about WW1 industry, it can get a little dry as a topic but if people are i will read them with a view to coming back and writing about them,

Polyakov posted:

Would people be interested in

nothing to seehere posted:

Just post

Cyrano4747 posted:

This is from a bit ago but no, don't.

This is the milhist thread. People doing awful poo poo to each other is pretty much its reason for being.

Pellisworth posted:

Catherine the Great was pretty cool too

OfficialGBSCaliph posted:

Nay.

Hogge Wild posted:

Kemper Boyd posted:

Incidentally, I think there's a relationship between infertility/male impotence and riding horses. That would explain a lot, because all of those dudes spent a ton of their time on horseback. Dunno where I read this and if this is bullshit.

Feral_Shofixti posted:

Neigh.

Pontius Pilate posted:

Watched from my balcony jets circling back to the lake for the Chicago air and water show while catching up on this thread. Good stuff. From that horrifying Warsaw story the narrator mentions how getting shot in a full stomach is much worse than an empty one. Any truth to that or just an old soldier's tale?

ArchangeI posted:

Presumably a full stomach means that your digestive tract is working and draws extra blood, whereas on an empty stomach there'd be less blood in the area where you got shot. Which is good. Kinda.

Before antibiotics, a gut shot just meant your death was slow and painful, anyway.