>horatio at the bridge>stamford bridge battle>standing death of benkeiare there any otherr elite takes down a fuck tonne of enemy cannon fodder episodes in warfare?
>>65642818The machine gunners at Normandy.
Wassup Google
Imjin River
>>65642818Hate breaking this to you, but the guy never existed. He is part of am Indo-European tradition of having a supernatural being missing one hand and one missing an eye (for Rome the one missing an eye was Mucius Scaevola, part of the same myth of the Romans chasing out the Etruscans).In Norse tradition we have Týr and Óðinn, Celts had Nuada and Lugh, and jeets have Bhaga and Savitr.Dumézil argues one hand represents law and authority over human relationships, and one eye magic and authority over supernatural reality.Romans had this weird habit of historicizing their myths (Janus was seen as a primordial Italic ruler, and Saturn as an exile arriving in Latium after being detrhoned by Jupiter).Rome fell to Porsenna (Tacitus, Histories 3.72), him imposing humiliating conditions to the city: Romans were prohibited from possessing iron weapons (Pliny the Elder, Natural History 34.139), and were forced to build a Porsenna's bronze statue in the Forum (Plutarch, Life of Publicola, chapters 16–19). Dionysius, 5.35.1, says that the Roman Senate sent Porsenna an ivory throne, a sceptre, a golden crown, and a triumphal robe. These are the insignia of kingship.Only Porsenna subsequent defeat at Aricia by the Latins and their allies from Cumae allowed Rome to develop independently.
>>65643033Lemme get this straight - you don't think Nelson existed?
>>65643047A naval commander constantly seasick, sound fishy to me...
>>65643033Of course Mucius Scaevola is the one missing the hand, did a oopsie there...
>>65643047He was missing both an hand AND an eye, you tell me, anon!
>>65642874The Georgian conscript with an MG-08 didn't actually kill a billion GIs, the films lied to you.
>>65642818https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Leybar_Bridge
Weapon durability my ass
Stamford Bridge viking is a myth
>>65643067Not to mention a blood phobia.
>>65642818Not really elite but there is that thing about those 6 frogs in a bunker on a road between Italy and France holding 6000 pastas during the early days of ww2
>>65642818bongland's first two Victoria Cross recipients in WW1 killed so many Germans while defending a bridge with a Vickers gun that an entire corps was halted and could only advance by using the piles of bodies as cover. The gunner sacrificed himself to hold the Germans off while the rest of the bongs withdrew by firing the Vickers from the hip until it ran out of ammo and he threw it in the river. As he was walking away he got shot in the head and survived the war in captivity to the surprise of the bongs, who had awarded his VC posthumously. https://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sidney_Godley
>>65644104>Hip-firing a fucking Vickers
18 A2A in a day
>>65642818Zhao YunSamson
>>65644191>A2A
The Spanish knight Pero Niño has a meme floating around describing how he kept fighting a battle even though he had a crossbow bolt sticking out of his face.
If it can be >1 person then honestly a lot of Fox Company at Chosin should count when they had to hold the Toktong Pass. For Naval combat I'm counting the fuck out of Taffy 3. They successfully held off the Japanese force
>>65646265Modern American military has no rizz
>>65642818Bayard.
This shit belongs on /x/
>>65642874>osttruppe and garrison fodder>elite
>>65642818
>>65647207Wow, Elon's had a rough week
