blood river
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>>61579084Cochin
Siege of Gibraltar
>>61579084Context? Were the Zulus trying to charge a machine gun head-on?
>>61579084Dude the saga of the Battle of Blood River is, its basically a fucking LTOR tier story. >Be Boers, dont like Cape Colony because British >trek north into South Africa to look for new lands>Their leader, Piet Retief makes a deal with the Zulu - they give him a near impossible mission to reclaim some cattle and in return he will get land>Against all odds he completes the mission and is betrayed by the Zulu, murdered at a feast held by the Zulu>the Zulu attack the Boer caravans and slaughter a lot of Boer>Boers on the fucking ROPES, about to be completely annihilated. wiped from the earth >make a pact with God, in return for victory they will hold the Sabbath as beyond scared>Zulu's attack the final caravan >Boers form lager and defeat the Zulu's with ease >Boers become very, very religious as a people. >After the battle, a power struggle happens in the Zulu kingdom with one of the Kings brothers breaking off with a big army to join the Boers>Boers operating as dragoons and Zulu's as footmen win the war. Zulu rebel is proclaimed King and in return he awards the Boers lands with a firm and clear border>Zulu's and Boers become kinda bro's until the English arrive to fuck everything up with the Anglo-Boer war
>>61579084>Dambuza dood. Wat nou?Zuelue habben een serieus probleem.
>>61579910>Zuelue habben een serieus probleem.Afrikaans is different to dutch, it would be >zulus het 'n ernstige probleem
>>61579921Goeie naand broeder.
>>61580090Goeienaand, boet.
>>61579157>Were the Zulus trying to charge a machine gun head-on?Yes, the Voortrekkers had recently acquired several new M.1838 Neger-Verkrachter machine guns and put them to good use beside their existing flintlocks.
>>61579084Kalka river, 1223 ADhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hXI-jhRrwNk
Posting a classic since there's so many Dutchmen and Dutch-adjacents here already
One of many
>>61579084*Teleports across the ocean to behind your capital on foot*
Oh we took a little trip down the mighty Mississip
Is this pic accurate?
>>61581896The best part of this was that is was a bunch of drunk militiamen and a gaggle of actual pirates against British regulars
When it comes to David vs Goliath nothing tops the Battle of Samar
>>61580268>M.1838 Neger-Verkrachter machine guns
>>61581945Yes.
>>61579164What does this have to do with Lord of the Rings?
>>61581896Old Hickory said, "We could take 'em by surpriseIf we didn't fire our muskets 'til we looked 'em in the eye"We held our fire 'til we see'd their faces wellThen we opened up our squirrel guns and gave 'em
>>61579084Sort of related, does anyone know what that battle was where the Germans took more casualties than the Soviet Union did? I forgot what it was. pic very much not it.
>>61579108>Literally most mundane siege possible
20k vs 150k with better weaponry and armor kek. you know the COPE is real when wikipedia says 'actually romans just lied this time lets rely on modern atheist estimates' NOWHERE else are modern 'estimates' placed above primary sources in the entire of wiki.
>>61582520>Buccinator
>>61579084https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wars_of_Alexander_the_GreatThen the continuous Diodachi wars ruined the victory
>>61579084>blood and cum river
>>61581896>>61582374The tactical supremacy of weaponized alligators.
>>61579157>context!??@?!?@???!??!!???One side was white.
>>61582020The "destroyers holding off battleships" is very thematic but ai think people forget the US also had like 400 aircraft in support
>>61580268kek
Battle of Assaye.Bong were attacking. A lack of cavalry meant Welsely had to lead his staff officers on charges multiple times.Most of the infantry fighting was carried by two highland battalions.
>>61580268>neger-verkracher FUCKING LAMO
>>61582962What battle was this? Holy shit
>>61582479>lost 570601 of 249800 men
>>61583002Said 400 aircraft were CAS armed aircraft, not anti-ship loadouts anon.
>>61579084PINOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOYYYYYYYY
>>61583002They were armed for ground attack to support the Marines on the beach. Many buzzed the Japanese without weapons at all in fake torpedo runs just to make them maneuver and buy Taffy 3 time to escape. One pilot emptied his service revolver out the window and another dropped all the trash in his cockpit on his target, including a clipboard and a coke bottle
>>61585384mines are op
>>61580268lel
>>61579088One of the big reasons why Haiti suffered so poorly with the dominicans was because they had no real generals. anyone with actual militarily training was dead, a number of Haitian officers had been trained in French and American armies who then trained the former slaves into a fighting force. Four decades later, most of these officers were dead, and the army's only experience was to suppress rebellions. Foreign observers noted the army that had too many "generals" who were actually civilians with no military training, like General Damien Delva (a wealthy tribunal clerk). The troops were gives guns and uniforms but ignored discipline and tactics. It was an army that could stop a small rebellion, but had more trouble battling a resolute enemy: its men would rather be at home growing food for their families than fighting the Panyols.
>>61585424Imagine what the Flips could flip if they had actual equipment
>>61585543This one didn't happen
>>61585430>They were armed for ground attack to support the Marines on the beachThe Japanese didn't know this, so it was enough to create chaos. The aircraft also caused significant damage despite not being optimally armed: >Chōkai's immobilizing damage resulted from a bomb hit at 08:51, she was later scuttled by torpedoes>Chikuma inflicted severe damage on Heermann, but was soon attacked in the anvil approach by four TBM Avenger torpedo-bombers. Richard Deitchman, flying from USS Manila Bay, succeeded in hitting her stern port quarter with a Mark 13 torpedo that severed her stern and disabled her port screw and rudder>The heavy cruiser Suzuya, which had also engaged the carriers, received fatal damage from the airSounds to me like it was a little bit more than just revolvers and coke bottles
>>61585398Amazing that the planes managed to sink three heavy cruisers without any anti-ship weapons
>>61585424You know the 40k number there is just an unsourced meme right
>>61585341Operation Eland. Scouts went into a ZANLA camp in blackface/masks and captured uniforms with 4 scout cars and 10 trucks (some of which they slapped 20mm AA guns onto. Made like it was a surprise inspection, blew the horns for parade muster, and slaughtered most of the camp on the parade ground.
>>61586207>blew the horns for parade muster, and slaughtered most of the camp on the parade groundRude desu.
>>61579084This is just going to be a list of colonial wars like in the US West or Africa where we have only reports from one side of the battle and they make up whatever numbers they want for the other side. >me and big jim done gone fought off 10,000 injuns last week defendin the farm>shit i was even drunk at the time too
>>61582520The Byzantines spent too much time stabbing each other in the back to be good at war.
>>61586330But they had flamethrowers, so they looked cool at least, I guess
Spaniards are still seething because of this.
>>61586081it happen
>>61586207Thank you anon. It almost seems impossible
>>61579084Nowhere near the worst, even in the Pacific Campaign.But the plan amounted to hail-marying a battleship to beach itself at Okin, while Americans are actually landing there, and have to become a fortress.All done when the Americans would have complete, inarguable air, numerical, and naval superiority. All so the Navy could save face in front of the Emperor.
>>61582520I've heard arguments that the Romans exaggerated their losses against Hannibal. And that makes sense; they won the war and could claim they beat the greatest general to ever live. Why would they claim to have lost 10 times what they actually did against the Arabs in a war they lost? Makes no sense at all. Unless tens of thousands of the number are support staff, which could make sense.
This doesn't undo Adwa, but I think it confirms that Ethiopians are still Africa tier
I'm convinced that if it wasn't for the blockage of food, Nigerians might have been biting more than they could chew at Biafra.
>>61587505Btw, from what I gathered the only estimates of Biafran losses here were around 5 thousands, still bad, but a lot less that over 20.
>>61586291How did those commanders stay alive for over 300 years?
>>61586108>Richard Deitchman, flying from USS Manila Bay, succeeded in hitting her stern port quarter with a Mark 13 torpedo that severed her stern and disabled her port screw and rudderThat was a later wave, after the Roberts and Heerman had already engaged her in broadside duelsWithout the destroyers going Leroy Jenkins Taffy 3 wouldn't have had enough time to get any torpedos in the air
>>61582962>completely ignores the times africans won
>>61587592Rage
>>61582962>One side was white.YEAH....
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>>61582374>We held our fire 'til we see'd their faces well>jizzing on a man's face before shooting himProbably a really effective demoralization tactic
>>61579084i dont buy these numbers anymoreall the numbers from our conflicts over the last 20 years were absurdly false>bro there was like 500 of them, i was taking fire from everywheremeanwhile it was 12 dudes with a couple of pkms and 7 mortar rounds
>>61586269>other side says that the ebil yt ppl killed hundreds of refugees >or that groups military power was completely destroyed after that Learn some fucking history instead of garbage leftist revisionism you pinko faggot.
>>61587833>most died from disease You left that part out.
>>61582962Rhodies lost the war idiot.
>>61590271Nope they won every battle...
>>61587833>>61590300Post your gun real quick lol
>>61590642bunkertranny tourists don't own guns, anon
>>61582156Tolkien was born in the Orange Free State. Anon's story is about the foundation of white settlements there.
>>61590642>post guns cuz I can't win an internet argument due to rhodesia being massive clowns and destroying their own gov through autismSays a lot that even living Rhosie hate you fags
>>61588821This war was pretty insane, Swedish king decided to 1v1 russia for the lulz and while he fucked up on the land the naval victory was so complete it put the end to the warrussian navy, not even once
>>61590642>>61590647your mad that pointed us the british lost every clash to maroon? who mostly had spears and swords.HAHAHAHAH>In 1734, Nanny led the Maroons to victory against a party led by Captain Shettlewood. A group of the liberated Africans conquered an estate in St George, including a fort and the barracks there.[7] The Windward Maroons removed westwards to the John Crow Mountains at a place called Cattawoods or Cattawood Springs, and continued their resistance to colonization. Colonial Jamaica was counting the cost of the continuing conflict. By the end of 1734, the island's white population had fallen to about 2,000. Sugar exports had fallen, and the island went through periods of martial law.
>>61590696>>61590642I>n 1735, over 100 Leeward Maroon warriors, led by Cudjoe, boldly conquered military barracks in western Jamaica. Ayscough died in office, and John Gregory became the new governor, and he immediately had to tackle the problem of Maroon attacks. In retaliation for the militia's occupation of Nanny Town, Windward Maroon warriors launched assaults on Titchfield Fort in Port Antonio.
>>61579921Dutch is so weird. It's like German but drunk. Also how come the Dutch went out and colonized a bunch but the Germans barely did anything?
>>61579084>getting slowly strangled by cow hide for high treasonthat shit must suck
>>61579084Note that the Africans also had guns.
>>61579084Portuguese conquest of South East Asia was pretty unbalanced, but the capture of Malacca in particular was downright ludicrous.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Siege_of_Malta
>>61590668>>61590696Outsiders spotted LOLNo gun no opinion.
>>61591131Yep you sound mad..
>>61579108>HanoverThe world was weird before German unification
>>61579098oh god...
