I start with Marcus Cassius Scaeva A Roman Centurion in Caesar Legion during the Roman Civil War against the Pompeians
>Be Centurio Marcus Cassius Scaeva >Train with professional gladiators in the arena occasionally >Be in Caesar Legion during the Civil War >Fight in Dyrrachium >Get shot in the eye, making you one eyed >Have you shield entirely covered in arrows like a Porcupine >Remove the arrow with your eye in it, and crush your eyeball to the ground and shout a battlecry >Continue the fight and keep a broken wall alone >Slaughter the Pompeian soldiers >Crush one ennemy head with a brick >Set fire to an ennemy beard >Get shot in the knee >Get shot in the throat >Continue the bloodlust >Survive the Battle
Why we havent have a Quality Kino on this Chad ? He is as badass than Maximus in Gladiator
Also we did he become after Dyrrachium ? Did he died in Battle or did he survive and retire ?
>most chad bust >has a wife and a tranny gf >fantastic general >beat Caesar's uncle >the first dictator >started marching on Rome meme which has persisted till 20th century
>He was never defeated tho you are saying it likes it's a negative
Bentley Nelson
Nope i just say tho to add a commentary
Ryan Gomez
>>started marching on Rome meme which has persisted till 20th century Personally, I hand that one to Marius. Marius made the Legions more loyal to their General than to Rome, and Marius kept harrassing Sulla from his place in Rome. Sulla merely retaliated with the tools he'd been given.
Joshua Rogers
>Marius made the Legions more loyal to their General than to Rome,
Isnt that a bad thing ? That whats led to the crisis of the third century
>love these history threads >they're always about Roman history, which I know very little about >can never contribute
Michael Lopez
Dude the middle ages were ruled by evil patriarchal Christian white men!
Women were allowed to exist only after 1960!
How can you make a movie about a middle eastern Russian princess massacring an entire tribe because a few of them killed their Bully Husband that constantly raided their land!
Caleb Roberts
Troy 300 Kingdom of heaven Master and Commander Contribute This is all history thread
Andrew Price
Im starting to think that all steppenigs are overated beside the mongols
Carson White
>Kingdom of heaven >Master and Commander This has nothing to do with the ancient period what are you talking about
Elijah Torres
The most history I know about is the French side of The Hundred Year War from 1428-1431
Ryder Martin
You didnt precise ancient historical kino
Daniel Brown
>DEH!
Thomas Bell
What about Flavius Aetius? You know, the last general of Rome, the one that whopped Attila's ass back in 451 AD? That would be awesome
Yeah I have thinked of that He had the possiblity to finish on the battlefield but he letted him go because it was his friend But thats Belisarius on the pic you posted
The English advance was then delayed by the need to pass through the choke-point presented by the bridge itself. The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle has it that a giant Norse axeman (possibly armed with a Dane Axe) blocked the narrow crossing and single-handedly held up the entire English army. The story is that this axeman cut down up to 40 Englishmen and was defeated only when an English soldier floated under the bridge in a half-barrel and thrust his spear through the planks in the bridge, mortally wounding the axeman.
Timothy Dexter >Buys a bunch of Continental Currency at a time when they're worthless, later when the government makes good for them at a fraction at the cost, becomes rich because he bought so many of them. >Decides to get into treading with his money, and buys a ship. >He ships bed warming pans off to the West Indies, where they are sold as pans for molasses and earns him a windfall. >Sends stray cats to the Caribbean, which were bought up to hunt for rats. >Ships coals to Newcastle when people told him to as a joke (Newcastle is a mining town) and his ships arrived in a middle of a mining strike, so he was able to sell his stock at a good price. >Buys up so much whalebone he cornered the market so he was able to set his own price when selling them to use in corsets. >Fakes his own funeral to see people mourn , beats his wife with a cane when he thinks she's not crying enough. >Writes his own book, A Pickle for the Knowing Ones, that has no punctuation at all. In his second edition, he added a page with just punctuation and instructed readers to distribute them as they pleased.
>exposure to mercury in his youth made him crazy >became a homeless drunk >turned his life to christ >castrated himself after talking to some hookers so he wouldnt be tempted >He then ate a meal and went to a prayer meeting before seeking medical treatment >joined the new york militia to fight in the civil war >got kicked out for being over bearing christfag >sentenced him to be shot but ended up not doing it >reenlisted in another company and got taken as a prisoner >got out >lincolns dead >kills boothe >continues rambling nonsense and god stuff for the rest of his life
He was based but why he castrated himself ? He just as to join the army Cast him
Kevin Jones
He was a big guy
Samuel Campbell
On July 16, 1858, Corbett was propositioned by two prostitutes while walking home from a church meeting. He was deeply disturbed by the encounter. Upon returning to his room at a boardinghouse, Corbett began reading chapters 18 and 19 in the Gospel of Matthew ("And if thy right eye offend thee, pluck it out and cast it from thee....and there be eunuchs, which have made themselves eunuchs for the kingdom of heaven's sake"). In order to avoid sexual temptation and remain holy, he castrated himself with a pair of scissors according to wiki
>Writes his own book, A Pickle for the Knowing Ones, that has no punctuation at all. In his second edition, he added a page with just punctuation and instructed readers to distribute them as they pleased. Wish celebs were like this
>Sepoy Gurmukh Singh, who communicated the battle to Haughton, was the last surviving Sikh defender. He is stated to have killed 20 Afghans, the Pashtuns having to set fire to the post to kill him. As he was dying, he was said to have yelled repeatedly the Sikh battle cry "Bole So Nihal, Sat Sri Akal!" ("One will be blessed eternally, who says that God is the ultimate truth!")
>Around 09:00, approximately 6,000–10,000 Afghans reach the signalling post at Saragarhi. >Sepoy Gurmukh Singh signals to Colonel Haughton, situated in Fort Lockhart, that they are under attack. >Haughton states he cannot send immediate help to Saragarhi. >The soldiers in Saragarhi decide to fight to the last to prevent the enemy from reaching the forts. >Sepoy Bhagwan Singh is the first soldier to be killed and Naik Lal Singh is seriously wounded. >Naik Lal Singh and Sepoy Jiwa Singh reportedly carry the body of Bhagwan Singh back to the inner layer of the post. >The Afghans break a portion of the wall of the picket. Haughton signals that he has estimated that there are between 10,000 and 14,000 Pashtuns attacking Saragarhi. >The leaders of the Pashtun forces reportedly make promises to the soldiers to entice them to surrender. >Reportedly two determined attempts are made to rush open the gate, but are unsuccessful. >Later, the wall is breached. >Thereafter, some of the fiercest hand-to-hand fighting occurs. >In an act of outstanding bravery, Havildar Ishar Singh orders his men to fall back into the inner layer, whilst he remains to fight. >However, this is breached and all but one of the defending soldiers are killed, along with many of the Pashtuns. Sepoy Gurmukh Singh, who communicated the battle to Haughton, was the last surviving Sikh defender. He is stated to have killed 20 Afghans, the Pashtuns having to set fire to the post to kill him. As he was dying, he was said to have yelled repeatedly the Sikh battle cry "Bole So Nihal, Sat Sri Akal!" ("One will be blessed eternally, who says that God is the ultimate truth!") Kino.
Jace Reed
Are there any last stands that weren't kino?
Juan Peterson
This is seems like the place for it so here. Film pitch. Wandering Jew / Sympathy for the Devil by the Rolling Stones / Mr Bean. Lead is Paul Giamatti.
Here's the actual ancient inscription documenting the decision to evacuate Athens. >Gods. >Resolved by the Boule and the People. >Themistocles son of Neocles of Phrearrhioi made the motion.
>The city shall be entrusted to Athena, Athens' protectress, and to the other gods, all of them, for protection and defense against the Barbarian on behalf of the country.
>The Athenians in their entirety and the aliens who live in Athens shall place their children and their women in Troezen, [to be entrusted to Theseus ?] the founder of the land. The elderly and movable property shall for safety be deposited at Salamis. The treasurers and the priestesses are to remain on the Acropolis and guard the possessions of the gods.
>The rest of the Athenians in their entirety and those aliens who have reached young manhood shall embark on the readied two hundred ships and they shall repulse the Barbarian for the sake of liberty, both their own and that of the other Greeks, in common with the Lacedaemonians, Corinthians, Aeginetans and the others who wish to have a share in the danger. livius.org/sources/content/the-troezen-decree/
Flavius Aetius could have killed Attila and destroyed the Hunnic army after the Battle of the Catalaunian Plains but he chose to let them get away because he didn't want the Visigoths (whose king died during the battle fighting for the Romans) to fill the power vacuum >gets raped by goths anyway
I forgot to mention the best part. The Persian King Xerxes watched the entire naval battle from a golden throne on top of a hill and saw his 1200 ships get crushed by 300 Greek triremes. It's recorded that he tore he clothes off in anger and literally REEEEEEEE'd
