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The Janissaries were an army composed of kidnapped children who had their manhood sliced off....

It sounds like something of such cartoonish villany that it would be out of an evil fairytale; yet entirely historical.


What historical facts do you have /his that seem like they're fiction but are actually truth?
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Most south american leaders were mason
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>>1630526
>history ripping off GoT again
When will historians stop?
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Janissaries weren't eunuchs
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>>1630907
also
During Rosa's time in the governament in Argentina, he lost control of his own "secret police" (a bunch of thugs who have a wicked reputation of raping people with corns if you didn't support Rosa) and rampaged on Buenos Aires raping and killing anybody on sights.
He literally just watched during weeks before actually doing somethin
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>>1630526
>who had their manhood sliced off
Source?
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>>1630526
Janissaries weren't castrated tho, they were just forbidden from founding families.
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Actual eunuchs were used as guards for the Sultan's harem
The Janissaries were supposed to be celibate but at some point they were allowed to have families.
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Napoleon was imprisoned on an island, twice. Seems like a supervillain, but of course we all know Napoleon wasn't the bad guy.
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>>1630526
>who had their manhood sliced off

No. They were just not allowed to name an inheritor. So if they had a wife and children, these were all illegitimate.
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Hitler actually believed that there was a global jewish conspiracy to undermine germany and it's peoples. He believed this so strongly that he sent 6 MILLION jews to their deaths.
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>>1631409
try a little harder next time
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>>1631409
Nice try, but try again
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The entire 2nd Punic war, story of Hannibal and Scipio, is like something straight out of an epic novel.
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>>1630526
If you kidnapped children and castrated them young they would not develop proper masculine bodies due lack of testosterone and be shit soldiers.
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>>1631409
did you even attempt to be non bait you cuck
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>>1630526
They weren't eunuchs you fucking retard and at the end of the 16th century tey were allowed to marry.
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>>1631520
Only some where castrated.
But at the least they where:
1. Gunknights
2. Doing all the muscle state legwork in peace time
3. Celibate
4. Marched to music
5. Elite troops composed of free slaves
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>>1630526
They weren't eunuchs you idiot, and they weren't just an army. They often reached important bureaucratic positions, and were involved in several palace coups.
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>>1631509
The first Punic war is just as good but a clusterfuck
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