Can someone link examples of similar battles such as the Battle

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>>32454188
>other last stand battles
>people remembering them

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>>32454188
Camaron. 65 french foreign legionnaires against 3000 mexicans.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Camar%C3%B3n

The legion is a specialist of this kind of thing. Tuyên Quang, Bir Hakeim, Dien Bien Phu...

>>32454226
>>32454201
Mexicans too apparently

>>32454201
Based Texan is great

>>32454188
Siege of the International Legations:

400 or so soldiers (and some civilians who also fought) from all the major world powers hold off about 20 to 40 thousand attackers
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siege_of_the_International_Legations

Check out the list of belligerents. If nothing else, it would be a challenge to for a milsurp fan to assemble all the rifles used.

>>32454201
>visited the alamo
>giant fucking insult to history once you go inside and it's basically a shitty gift shop

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Gandamak

>Afghanistan in the Winter of 1841/42
>massive tribal uprising of 30,000 afghan warriors
>General Elphinstone decides that rather than stay put like General Nott up north at Kandahar he will leave the nearly impenetrable Bala Hissar and march his 4500 men and 12,000 depenants back to India
>through the Kyber Pass with limited supplies during a brutal winter
>the army gets routed and nearly completely killed
>on a snow covered hill 65 men of the 44th foot formed a desperate square trying to hold off several thousand afghanis
>despite bravely holding off several surges from the huge mass of afghans the square was eventually broken and the regiment destroyed save one officer

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>>32454188

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Maiwand

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>>32454188

If you want a really good book on this sort of stuff I highly recommend the Mike Snook book "Into the Jaws of Death".

It has a good review of several battles like Rorke's Drift and the Battle of Isandlwana.

>>32454226

Came here to post this. There was a point when there were only 5 legionnaires left and the mexicans demanded their surrender. The Legionnaires countered by demanding the surrender of the mexicans. Then they bayonet charged and 3 of them were killed and the last 2 were subdued. They still refused to surrender and demanded to be allowed to bury their dead and leave with their rifles. The Mexican commander allowed it.

>At this point, darkness closed in, ending the protective Marine air cover. Chinese infantry assaults grew bolder, penetrating closer to the convoy. RCT-31 began to disintegrate. Almost all of its officers were dead or seriously wounded. Separate attacks were made on the hill which cleared part of it, but many of the leaderless soldiers, instead of returning to the column, continued out onto the frozen reservoir immediately behind the hill and walked on the ice toward Marine positions several miles to the south, seeking safety.
>The roadblock at the base of the hill was finally removed, and the truck column again crept forward in the dark but was finally halted by another Chinese roadblock just north of Hudong. The U.S. troops and tanks occupying Hudong – who might have saved at least part of the task force – had been ordered back to Hagaru-ri the previous day (an action which remains controversial).
>Here the Chinese renewed their attack, swarming among the trucks, throwing white phosphorus grenades into vehicles loaded with wounded, setting some of them on fire.[4] Lieutenant-Colonel Faith, hit again by rifle fire, died of his wounds (he was posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor). Major Harvey Storms, the last commander of 3/31 Infantry and a respected and admired leader, was also killed. The remaining American rear-guard soldiers abandoned the truck convoy and attempted to escape individually, many crossing onto the ice of the reservoir.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Task_Force_Faith
In less than 5 days the regimental-sized force lost 87% of its men. Despite being largely ignored today, at the time the battle dominated Chinese strategic thinking and convinced the leadership that total annihilation of the UN forces was not only possible, but not very hard. The Spring Offensive was modeled on the strategy that worked so well next to Chosin but it flopped almost as hard as, well, 31st RCT.

>>32455792

Not nearly impressive given that the Chinese leadership couldn't make up their minds on whether they wanted to actually storm the place versus talking it out.

That and most of the Chinese didn't even have guns, and those that did were still using matchlocks.

Goddamn the Qing dynasty near the end was a fucking joke of a government

>>32454226
Met a former Para who was at Dien Bien Phu, in 1992. He's a friend of my wife's editor. Told him I missed out on our turn over there. He gave a hard ass look, and said " You didn't miss a thing." Put in my place and edified in one small sentence. He's still among the living.