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HEY GUNS posted:the difference between being taken by storm, and everything that happens after that, and being handed over in a negotiation is very relevant to the local civilians Zamboni Apocalypse posted:Yeah, but by that time Dresden was just a sweep-and-clear anyway. Welp, off to Nuremberg for my trial and hanging now, seeya!
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SeanBeansShako posted:You Yanks need to stop making them, they always turn out to be shite. Only good one is Men In Tights. "You Yanks"? Motherfucker the Ridley Scott one is the most recent that's been released and it's English nationalist propaganda. Cram a loving pasty in it you neckless fish fucker.
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Rodrigo Diaz posted:"You Yanks"? Motherfucker the Ridley Scott one is the most recent that's been released and it's English nationalist propaganda. Cram a loving pasty in it you neckless fish fucker. 
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You say as if cramming a pasty in it is a bad thing. Also, forgive me for ignoring all wanky nationalist bullshit Scott does. I've got better things to do with my time. EDIT: And yet nobody has made a film about this guy too. Yeah he hosed up, but at least it happened. SeanBeansShako fucked around with this message at 18:27 on May 8, 2018 |
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Wat Tyler is like the most embarrassing revolutionary ever. Mel Gibson should play him.
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Fangz posted:Wat Tyler is like the most embarrassing revolutionary ever. Now that is entertainment.
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Rodrigo Diaz posted:"You Yanks"? Motherfucker the Ridley Scott one is the most recent that's been released and it's English nationalist propaganda. Cram a loving pasty in it you neckless fish fucker. You want to watch it or Mebyon Kernow will burn your house down or something.
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You've got nothing to worry about with those guys, they somehow can't even beat the Liberal Democrats in Council elections. Jethro is a bastard though, he's old and armed still so watch out for that guy.
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Happy VE Day, comrades. The Limber Gunners brought out their 25-pounder today. There was also a Jeep along with a few WWII era cars. 
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1066 and All That posted:CHAPTER 20
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The Ridley Scott movie is so sad Because the premise of the initial screenplay was awesome - it was written by two people, one who had a Phd in medieval history. It made the Sheriff of Nottingham the main character. The Sheriff was looking for a serial killer, and he would use medieval era crime fighting techniques in the search. He suspects Robin Hood initially, and while Robin is an rear end in a top hat, the Sheriff soon decides he's not the killer, so then the Sheriff and Robin Hood team up to catch the killer.
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Mr Enderby posted:He died very romantically. Having taken some medicine supplied by his Wicked Aunt and feeling his strength going, he blew a dying blast on his horn and with his dying breath fired a last shot out of his bedroom window, and hit the Sheriff of Nottingham again. Given that traditionally he was supposed to be buried where the arrow fell, that would complicate the burial somewhat. Hope the Sheriff was a fat bastard.
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Ensign Expendable posted:Happy VE Day, comrades. The Limber Gunners brought out their 25-pounder today.  Georgy Zhukov rides an elephant during his official visit to India, 1957
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For the record I don't actually care about what sbs said I just wanted to rag on the English. Pasties are delicious.
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pics i found on my imgur trawl French soldiers and their war dogs during WW1. The canines carried aid to the wounded, took messages between the lines and sniffed out enemy soldiers.They were also used for pulling machine guns and equipment.  German cavalry moving into France, August 1914. Wouldn't be out of place on a Napoleonic Wars' battlefield.  French soldier rests to have lunch after days of battle near Reims France April 1917  World War 1, Sound Finders Were Used To Hear Potential Incoming Enemy Planes.  An American major, piloting an observation balloon near the front during World War I (1918)  Australian Light Horse Advance on Beersheba. 31/10/17  British WW1 soldier in goatskin coat (date unknown)  A french soldier in uniform with three medals stands next to a cannon in Paris in 1918. His left leg has been replaced by an artificial limb.  King George V at the Western front, 1917  Military officers and politicians climbing over furniture to watch the signing of the Treaty of Versailles in the aftermath of World War I. - June 28th, 1919  Hitler in WWI.
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Technically they'd be confused if they saw the Pickehaube in 1815 as Prussian Uhlans just wore the usual Landwehr peaked cap or cavalry style shako.
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Ensign Expendable posted:Happy VE Day, comrades. The Limber Gunners brought out their 25-pounder today. What's the advantage of a windscreen sloped like that? I've seen it on a few heavy vehicles, especially military ones. Is it for better ground visibility, rain shedding, or something else?
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ChubbyChecker posted:
OK, I can see the horns amplifying sound, but what's with the goggles? Built-in binoculars so that you don't have to waste time and energy lifting it to your eyes when you hear something? ChubbyChecker posted:Hitler in WWI. lol
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Tomn posted:OK, I can see the horns amplifying sound, but what's with the goggles? Built-in binoculars so that you don't have to waste time and energy lifting it to your eyes when you hear something? the goggles do nothing
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They appear to have very small aperture, maybe to give a pinhole effect to make it easier to see distant planes when you've heard them?
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Cessna posted:
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ChubbyChecker posted:
This is my aesthetic
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Trench_Rat posted:technically it was a rebellion and not a real war between nation states That distinction in the history books really depends on who wins, doesn't it?
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Bad Angus! Bad!
Slim Jim Pickens posted:This is my aesthetic I count at least two dandies who will not leave their sticks alone for this, nope.
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ChubbyChecker posted:
"I'm off to represent the entire Red Army at the buffet"
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GotLag posted:What's the advantage of a windscreen sloped like that? I've seen it on a few heavy vehicles, especially military ones. Is it for better ground visibility, rain shedding, or something else? I think getting less rain on it is correct. Remember that these vehicles for most of the war only had hand operated windscreen wipers.
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More espionage than military, but still kinda neat.Guest2553 posted:A journalist successfully FOIA'd the CIA to get the rules for some previously secret in-house card games used for training. One of them, collection deck, is about collaborative problem solving in intelligence gathering. It's interesting enough that there's a kick starter to commercial mass produce it
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So are there any good sources on how long it would take for people to train as cavalry, going from inexperienced riders to capable and going from capable riders to competent at cavalry-specific skills, especially from the Early Modern period to the mid-19th century? Especially info around major raisings of military force, like the French Revolution's levee en masse, or others like that.
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fishmech posted:So are there any good sources on how long it would take for people to train as cavalry, going from inexperienced riders to capable and going from capable riders to competent at cavalry-specific skills, especially from the Early Modern period to the mid-19th century? Especially info around major raisings of military force, like the French Revolution's levee en masse, or others like that. I suspect in large part in the early modern you're recruiting people who already have at least some experience on a horse. Could be wrong though.
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Trench_Rat posted:Been reading a lot about the american civil war lately and what are junctions and turnpikes? Also did foreign militaries observers participate since technically it was a rebellion and not a real war between nation states As noted, so was the American war of independence  French people sure showed up for that.
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Question for P-Mack - after the Taiping Rebellion was finished, how did the Qing Dynasty spin it? What was the narrative they created around its rise and destruction, and how widely accepted was that narrative?
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Fangz posted:I think getting less rain on it is correct. Remember that these vehicles for most of the war only had hand operated windscreen wipers. There is an antiglare effect for internal instruments/controls at night. It's typically for this reason and not for rain shedding, because if you are driving forward you still get quite a bit of rain on a forward-raked windshield.
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KYOON GRIFFEY JR posted:There is an antiglare effect for internal instruments/controls at night. It's typically for this reason and not for rain shedding, because if you are driving forward you still get quite a bit of rain on a forward-raked windshield. That makes sense for ships and stuff, but I don't really think there's going to be much of that in a WW2 jeep.
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Tomn posted:Question for P-Mack - after the Taiping Rebellion was finished, how did the Qing Dynasty spin it? What was the narrative they created around its rise and destruction, and how widely accepted was that narrative? As far as the official response goes, mostly not talking about it. Any Taiping documents or records found were immediately destroyed (thankfully for future historians many were preserved by westerners in Shanghai and Hong Kong). Tobie Meyer-Fong's What Remains talks a lot about post war commemoration, and the sheer scale of the dead meant that what were previously official imperial shrines and memorials were in this case erected by local communities. It was impossible that all the dead were actually loyal servants of the empire but for memorial purposes everyone's name would go on the list and be remembered together. The Taiping ideology pretty much died with the last true believers in Nanjing so there wasn't much left to stamp out. I think as an explicit theocracy in which spiritual and temporal hierarchy were one, it wasn't suited for persisting as an underground movement. There was still significant persecution of suspected heretics which fell more on innocent Catholics than any actual Taiping holdouts. All the problems with the Qing that led to rebellion in the first place remained unsolved. So there were still plenty of people who remembered the Taiping fondly and passed on stories of the rebellion through oral tradition. One young boy in particular was enamored by these stories and the anti-Qing narrative they crystallized, to the point that his friends nicknamed him "the second Hong Xiuquan". In adulthood, he'd go by the name Sun Yat-Sen.
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Tomn posted:Question for P-Mack - after the Taiping Rebellion was finished, how did the Qing Dynasty spin it? What was the narrative they created around its rise and destruction, and how widely accepted was that narrative? The lasting effect of the Taiping Rebellion was that it destroyed any remaining pretense that the Qing was a Manchu empire or entity or that the Manchu were the Han's superiors - the "Banner armies" that brought the QING to power initially were gutted as an institution and played no relevant role in China's future. All the power - i.e. the armies trained and equipped along western lines and the supporting strucutres - arsenals, training schools, etc. were made up of Han Chinese and led by Han chinese officials at the highest levels. When the Qing finally wimpered out in 1911 none of the warlords that emerged during the warlord era were Manchu.
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P-Mack posted:Tobie Meyer-Fong's What Remains talks a lot about post war commemoration, and the sheer scale of the dead meant that what were previously official imperial shrines and memorials were in this case erected by local communities. It was impossible that all the dead were actually loyal servants of the empire but for memorial purposes everyone's name would go on the list and be remembered together.  Awwwww. I got something in my eye.
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Hi milgoons, posting on behalf of a Dutch friend whose family have found these over the years and they've had no luck identifying them. Unfortunately I don't have measurements on them but any ideas?  
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P-Mack posted:One young boy in particular was enamored by these stories and the anti-Qing narrative they crystallized, to the point that his friends nicknamed him "the second Hong Xiuquan". In adulthood, he'd go by the name Sun Yat-Sen. Not gonna lie, I heard Paul Harvey's voice in my head as I read this.
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