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AnimeIsTrash posted:There were a few other people like him. Quirked up white boys going to the orient to join the sikhs is very funny. pisspig great grandad
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AnimeIsTrash posted:There were a few other people like him. Quirked up white boys going to the orient to join the sikhs is very funny. It was a legit common thing in the subcontinent. The Mughal empire at it's high noon had a bunch of european artillery officers, venetian craftsmen etc. The portuguese literally fought an alliance of the Ottoman empire, Mughal empire and the Venetian republic to secure their toehold in southern and western india.
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For whatever reason, a bunch of women from USA and Britain came to the Balkans for the same reason. I used to remember the names of a bunch, there was one who kept joining various guerillas and flip-flopping between wanting Serbs genocided to 'solve' the Balkans and wanting Albanians genocided to 'solve' the Balkans. The ones I do remember are relatively recent in comparison: Flora Sandes, who is probably the sanest of the bunch (probably due to not actually being a weirdo war tourist adventurer for the most part), she was deployed here as a nurse during WW1 and joined the army of Serbia as a combatant at the request of a Serbian commander. Ruth Mitchell (her brother was USA brigadier general Billy Mitchell, and her granddad was a robber baron), who joined the Chetniks in WW2 Tankbuster posted:The portuguese literally fought an alliance of the Ottoman empire, Mughal empire and the Venetian republic to secure their toehold in southern and western india. Fun fact: The Grand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire during the Ottoman campaign to Sumatra (to support the Aceh Sultanate in the conflict with the Portugese) was a Serbian janissary, Mehmed Pasha Sokolovic. my dad has issued a correction as of 10:40 on Sep 24, 2022 |
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that rules, I never really thought about the ottomans in the indian ocean
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my dad posted:The ones I do remember are relatively recent in comparison: What the hell, she was a hardcore royalist, she also married an officer of the whites.
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AnimeIsTrash posted:What the hell, she was a hardcore royalist, she also married an officer of the whites. That's how low the bar is for "sanest of the bunch". e: Like, just the fact that she was in the Serbian army at the request of the Serbian army instead of "yeeeehaw, adventure time, let's shoot up some locals" puts her waaaaay above the rest the pack. e2: I really lack a sufficient vocabulary to adequately describe just how nuts the victorian era psychos showing up here were. my dad has issued a correction as of 17:11 on Sep 24, 2022 |
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Military adventurers have existed always, and they're never well adjusted folks. Here's a nice quote from the Wikipedia article about the Rhodesian volunteersquote:Another strategy used to address white manpower shortages was seeking white volunteers from outside the country, which the Rhodesian government began doing in 1973.[21][26] Men with previous military experience, and especially service in wars, were preferred. It was expected that most of the volunteers for the security forces would not settle in Rhodesia.[21]
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IIRC Rhodesia was a real hot spot for Vietnam vets. Many of whom were angry about the civil rights movement. "Fun" mission indeed.
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You don't have to link the press releases, that article is open access and free for anyone to read. It's good, too. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0305750X22002169
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She was a spy for the union army during the civil war. Only took her like 40 years afterwards to get a pension for it.
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I'm trying to think of all the military advances the French gave us and so far I have 1. Canned food 2. Superfiring battleship turrets 3. The turreted tank 4. The machine gun 5. Giving a poo poo about your country
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They fielded the world's first mass produced, actually useful smokeless powder rifle They fielded the world's first light machine gun going by tactical definition
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Teriyaki Hairpiece posted:I'm trying to think of all the military advances the French gave us and so far I have Levée en masse count?
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Slavvy posted:They fielded the world's first mass produced, actually useful smokeless powder rifle also the flintlock and I suppose the bayonet
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They were the first Europeans to use aviation I think (balloons)
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wiki said they fielded the first bicycle troops a year before the brits also lol 
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HashtagGirlboss posted:Levée en masse count? Yes and also bikes and balloons French knew how to war
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not strictly military but the first successful use of a car as a robbery getaway vehicle was French, in 1911. the first ever was in the US two years prior but they got caught immediately. edit: misremembered, initially wrote first ever car getaway which isn’t true, but being the first to live up to the name and actually make a getaway isn’t to bad Falukorv has issued a correction as of 04:53 on Sep 28, 2022 |
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The Russians and British could not have put down Napoleon without their German allies, and they would never ever ever forget their contributions or be ungrateful in any way
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Falukorv posted:not strictly military but the first use of a car as a robbery getaway vehicle was French they’re always looking for a quick way to retreat
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Teriyaki Hairpiece posted:I'm trying to think of all the military advances the French gave us and so far I have Napoleon invented the corps as a method of organizing his forces.
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Stairmaster posted:Napoleon invented the corps as a method of organizing his forces.
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A Buttery Pastry posted:He was a Corsican though. Not this, please
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If you play EU4, you know how loving good the French are at war.
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Teriyaki Hairpiece posted:I'm trying to think of all the military advances the French gave us and so far I have Standardized weights and measures did a lot for artillery accuracy and logistics train. Cannonball, spare parts etc With that comes the grand battery.
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Orange Devil posted:Standardized weights and measures did a lot for artillery accuracy and logistics train. Cannonball, spare parts etc Just thinking of all the different calibers of weapons and all the different train gauges the Confederacy had in the ACW.
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Teriyaki Hairpiece posted:I'm trying to think of all the military advances the French gave us and so far I have élan-as-military-power-levels
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Teriyaki Hairpiece posted:I'm trying to think of all the military advances the French gave us and so far I have Artillery hydraulic recoil so you don't have to aim the gun again after firing.
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Driving trucks of manure and spraying them on politician's buildings.
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