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Dang man that was rude af

>Napoleonic wars
>Dubrovnik/Ragusa in Croatia was a maritime city-state and a long-standing rival of Venice
>Auguste de Marmont is passing by
>convinces Dubrovnik to let his troops into the city before he continues South to fight Russians and Montenegrins
>Marmont sends troops to the walls
>conquers a city-state which stood undefeated for 400 years without spilling any blood
>a 400 year old state dies just like that

>>3157592
Elphinstone was an old idiot too far entrenched in his views to make something useful. He had all the warning signs to realize that leaving was a bad idea and yet he still did it anyway. To be fair, you can't lay all the blame on him. The EIC leaders did not listen to Alexander Burnes, an experienced diplomat in Afghanistan affairs, about who they should support for power in Afghanistan. Dost Mohammed would likely have been the better choice but the EIC continued to support the useless and horribly cruel drunkard Shah Shujah. The EIC also ignored warnings from Burnes that the British Garrison in Kabul was beginning to bother the native people there. This would prove fatal for Burnes as his embassy was stormed and he was killed.

All in all this whole thing was rife with mismanagement and it's just more proof that the EIC was run by incompetent fools. The British in India finally started to act in a more competent manner following the mutiny of 1857.

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>>3157592
>trusting afghans
>ever
What's next, you gonna let in millions of kiddy diddling Paki's to your nation?

>>3158875
That's pretty much the same thing that happened to Venice: "oh Doge Ludovico, pls let me pass through Veneto to go fight the austrians" "kek joking, occupying Brescia and Verona rn"
It's funny how countries never learn that aggressive expansionist powers are unlikely to respect neutrality during large conflicts.
>stood undefeated
Well, it's not false since they were never militarily conquered, but they were vassals of Hungary and a joint protectorate of Austria and the Ottomans for most of those 400 years, acting as a sort of free port through which passed most of the 'tolerated' smuggling and spying. They were also not really rivals to Venice for more than a century, in fact the ragusans went so far out of their way to not have trouble with Venice that they gifted the ottomans strips of coastland not to share a border with the Serenissima.