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Post by hi224 on Jan 21, 2018 7:38:30 GMT
anyone can think of any weird historic events?.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 21, 2018 13:43:43 GMT
Battle of Karánsebes in 1788 when the Austrian army fought itself killing between 1200 and 10.000 of its own soldiers.
And you have the Great Emu War of 1932 when the Australian army lost a war against birds
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Post by MCDemuth on Jan 21, 2018 19:53:15 GMT
The "War Of 1812" "Storm that saved Washington"
on August 25, 1814, As the British were trying to destroy and burn down much of Washington DC... A major storm suddenly struck which produced at least one tornado...
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Post by hi224 on Jan 21, 2018 19:56:30 GMT
Weird.
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Post by clusium on Jan 21, 2018 20:12:24 GMT
The "War Of 1812" " Storm that saved Washington" on August 25, 1814, As the British were trying to destroy and burn down much of Washington DC... A major storm suddenly struck which produced at least one tornado... One of the most interesting things about the War of 1812, is that all the sides believe that they won the war, & that the other side lost!!!!
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Post by Deleted on Jan 21, 2018 20:52:38 GMT
The "War Of 1812" " Storm that saved Washington" on August 25, 1814, As the British were trying to destroy and burn down much of Washington DC... A major storm suddenly struck which produced at least one tornado... One of the most interesting things about the War of 1812, is that all the sides believe that they won the war, & that the other side lost!!!! Well that is really just an American and Canadian thing. The war of 1812 is more or less a forgotten war in Britain. It was the war in Europe against Napoleon that mattered to them not the war in North America. At the time they paid little attention to what was to them a peripheral and secondary dispute, a distraction from the principal task at hand. which was the war against France and Napoleon.
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Post by hi224 on Jan 23, 2018 18:31:16 GMT
Battle of Karánsebes in 1788 when the Austrian army fought itself killing between 1200 and 10.000 of its own soldiers. And you have the Great Emu War of 1932 when the Australian army lost a war against birds very interesting stuff here.
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Post by redhorizon on Jan 23, 2018 22:11:38 GMT
Battle of Chanderi :: Mughal Emperor Babar's war with the Rajputs in Hindustan.
At Chanderi on January 20, 1528.
"The outer fort was taken in the night. In the morning a general assault was ordered, and in spite of the stones and fire which the Rajputs threw down on their heads, the storming parties gained the walls in several places and seized a covered way that led to the citadel. The upper fort was quickly forced, and the desperate Rajputs, seeing that all was lost, killed all their women and children, and rushing out naked, fell furiously upon the Muslims, slaughtered as many as they could, and then threw themselves over the ramparts. A remnant had gathered in Medini Rao's house, where they slew each other with enthusiasm : 'one man took his stand with a sword, and others came pressing on, one by one, and stretched out their necks, eager to die; in this way many went to hell'. To Babar this desperate sacrifice appeared only an exhibition of pagan infatuation, and he piled up the heads of these heroic suicides in a tower on a hill-top without a word of admiration for their gallant end."
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Post by Deleted on Jan 24, 2018 12:32:24 GMT
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Post by politicidal on Jan 27, 2018 3:29:21 GMT
The reports of Foo Fighters during World War 2 always fascinated me.
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Post by hardball on Mar 25, 2018 14:22:08 GMT
The Afghan MonsterA relatively recent report of a wartime monster sighting comes from an anonymous US Army special forces squad member, who was tracking a Taliban person of interest in the mountains of Afghanistan. The squad’s objective at the time was to observe a village for several days, in the hopes of witnessing suspicious activity or persons, which was hoped would inform and lead to a successful raid. The team comprised six men at the base, with two others whose job it was to observe the village at closer quarters. What the witness describes as having happened next is chilling. “Hallucinations happen. But what happened was beyond comprehension. First, we heard a sound like a huge airplane taking off. A loud low buzz that slowly increased in pitch. We had to yell over comms to hear each other. Everywhere I looked, I kept seeing what looked like glowing eyes staring back at me, but once I would center my focus on where I saw them, they would disappear. We were […] panicked. Everyone was holding their rifles at the high ready, we were expecting some kind of ambush attack […] Then it all just stopped. Everything got dark. The only thing I could hear was my breath and the blood pumping in my head. We stopped, dug into the side of the mountain, and performed SLLS [Stop, look, listen, smell] for about 10 minutes. Nothing. Not even bugs. The air and the land were silent.” The team was thoroughly spooked and overcome with fatigue – and eager to get back to camp. However, they were very aware that something waited in the darkness for them: something which, very possibly, had intentions to harm them. They moved quickly through the scrub, until they were met by the sight of a man dressed in light-coloured robes. The man was slowly making his way towards them. According to the witness, the way that he moved was “unnatural”. He seemed to pass through any and all obstacles in his way as though they were made of air. In the eyewitness’ own words: “He seemed to melt over and around the rocks […] Through the NODS [night vision goggles], his eyes glowed. I scoped up on him, and saw that he was looking directly at me. It was pitch black, there is no way he could have seen us from that distance without any kind of night optics. Suddenly, he stopped. He picked up one of his limbs and held it in the air, almost like he was waving at me. Then the arm melted back into his form, like it wasn’t an arm at all, but some kind of extendable proboscis that was meant to look like an arm from a distance. I was about to ask the guys if they could see him, when he suddenly disappeared.” “Apparently, the team that moved into the village found it completely abandoned. They also found several men in the area where I had seen the lights [that] night […] The corpses had been ripped to shreds, and based on the sheer amount of blood, the general consensus was that there were more men that were killed there than just the bodies that were found. It went in the official records as a successful raid with several enem[ies] KIAs [killed in action]. Unofficially? No one has any idea what killed them. All I know is whatever it was…it chose…. it chose those men and not us.” the full account and other weird wartime sightings here
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Post by hi224 on Mar 25, 2018 15:51:05 GMT
Thats creepy.
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Post by Nalkarj on Mar 25, 2018 18:42:00 GMT
Just read up on this. I can’t imagine that the Japanese planned it that way, but if so the plot is diabolical (and somewhat reminds me of Chesterton’s “The Perishing of the Pendragons”).
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Post by JHA Durant on Apr 8, 2018 6:04:35 GMT
The "Divine Winds" that saved Japan.
During the latter half of the 13th Century, the Mongols were ruled by Kublai Khan, and they were sweeping almost unchallenged throughout Asia and parts of Europe. Twice they targeted Japan, twice they engaged in vicious combat with Japanese warlords, and twice they were defeated by them. And in both instances, the retreating forces were destroyed by sudden typhoons, with the loss of thousands.
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