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The Something Awful Forums > Discussion > Ask/Tell > Milhist Thread: Ok, so get this: we name the army groups 1, 2 and 4...
 
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Jan 21, 2017
 ultimately the idea of war itself is a particular narrative about a certain set of chaotic circumstances :agesilaus:

the Peloponnesian War is ongoing, IMO
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Cyrano4747 posted:

Well, next step would be to track down a copy of that and see where he was getting the info.

Sometimes you do this and find out that it's a dead end and you have no loving clue where the person got the info, which for some random book from the 20s or worse the 19th century means it might just be bullshit. But as often as not they'll have some reference in there, even if it's not up to the standard of modern citation, that tells you where to go.

Not military, but genealogy - I have some deep New England ancestry and I discovered that in the 1830's there was some dude on the east coast writing fake biographies basically making your family sound like English royalty that happened to slip on over here. Some cousin paid for one to be written. As the fake goes, you can trace us all the way back to some dude who scaled the wall at the Battle of Acre, in the fuckin' crusades! Wow! Real white Americans!!!

There is ONE scholar I have found, from the 1930's, who pointed out how bunk this was and did good work to prove so - this author wrote a few convincing but fake accounts of other families.

Flash forward to the 90s, some lawyer in California writes a big rear end tome on my family and INCLUDES this story of royal crusader ancestry like its facts!

Then when like Angelfire and Geocities genealogy started up in the early 2000s, my mother and all sorts of amateurs started parroting the same story. I have never identified any basis for it.

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The Something Awful Forums > Discussion > Ask/Tell > Milhist Thread: Ok, so get this: we name the army groups 1, 2 and 4...