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Disinterested: Jun 29, 2011; You look like you're still raking it in. Still killing 'em?

Frederick William of Prussia, Frederick the great's father, hated the French so much that he had people executed in traditional French clothes. He was also an appalling father and had canes with which to beat William placed around his palaces so that something was always on hand during his episodes of gout.

# ¿ Nov 13, 2015 21:19

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# ¿ May 7, 2024 09:01

Disinterested: Jun 29, 2011; You look like you're still raking it in. Still killing 'em?

You left out Napoleon's useless brother

# ¿ Nov 14, 2015 19:51

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Bonapartisan posted:

You need to be more specific. Do you mean Joseph, failed King of Spain? Or perhaps Louis, failed King of Holland? Or maybe Jerome who gave up his American wife (Betsy Patterson) for the Kingdom of Westphalia? Or do you mean Lucien, the traitorous brother who helped bring in the Consulate (President of the Council of Five Hundred) and later turned has back on everything, but hey dude got named Prince of Canino by Pius VII!

Or maybe we could refer to one of the brothers-in-law? Elisa's worthless husband Felix Baciocchi, Prince of Lucca? Maybe One of Pauline's husbands? Leclerc who died in Haiti to Toussant L'Overtures remaining forces, oh no wait it was yellow fever. Or Camillo Borghese Prince of Sulmona who was just generally ineffectual. Or, there's Caroline's husband Murat, King of Naples who tried to save his own skin and abandoned Napoleon at the end?

Losers. All of them.

I'd post more with links, but I'm on my phone, doing this from memory I may have spelled some of those kingdoms wrong.

I was going for Joseph but this is a good name post combination.

# ¿ Nov 15, 2015 22:13

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Loxbourne posted:

This was actually an issue, though. At the outset of the war Imperial Germany regarded any member of a "non-combatant" nation in uniform as a mercenary and shot them immediately on capture (as happened to quite a few Americans who crossed the Atlantic to join up). They did the same with captured black soldiers from the French colonial regiments. Germany wouldn't extend anyone suspiciously nonwhite the privileges of civilised warfare.

And there are conspicuous examples from both the second war of soldiers of colour finding Europe in some ways more accomodation than home, particularly those from the United states. There was no segregation, although it was occasionally put in to place to accommodate white American sensibilities, and there is a huge weight of testimony of people finding the white americans very gauche in attacking black soldiers out with white British women.

Colonial and no white experience in Europe in the ears was incredibly interesting.

# ¿ Nov 17, 2015 19:45

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WickedHate posted:

A cardinal wanted a statue of a Bacchus?

There's a story from the Avignon papacy about a Cardinal building a fake bridge over the river next to the grounds of his party that collapsed when people walked on it to the amusement of his guests.

# ¿ Feb 4, 2016 16:08

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# ¿ May 7, 2024 09:01

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Byzantine posted:

The bishop of Rome split from the Empire in the mid 750s and ran squealing to the barbarians with forged paperwork claiming that Constantine totally gave the entire Western Roman Empire to Pope Sylvester, honest.

Took a pretty long while for that forgery to be uncovered bur it's pretty hard to claim the emperors ever took it seriously. Or really anyone but the papacy.

# ¿ Jun 25, 2017 22:46

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