What was the greatest 'last stand' in military history?

>>34006122
The defense of the Benghazi CIA safehouse, 2011

>>34006122
Either Rorkes Drift or the Siege of the Peking Legations

>>34006122
The Alamo

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>>34006122

The defense of OP's virginity.

>>34006122
Deir Ez-Zor

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>>34006122
Battle off Samar

Russia against the jews.

Battle of the Somme.

The Fall of Constantinople
>Be Turkish soldier
>Besiege the mighty fortress city, the great thorn in the side of Allah for almost a millennium.
>53 days of bombardment and attack.
>Wave after wave of Turks breaks against the defenders.
>Don't know by what magic the Great Satan still holds.
>Break through breach in outer wall.
>Take heavy losses, but Mehmet's archers will mow us down if we turn back this time.
>Finally push defenders back.
>Break through inner wall.
>Where is everyone?
>Subdue smattering of women and old men throwing rocks.
>Where the fuck is everyone!?
>Actual soldier encountered here and there.
>Mostly civvies with clubs, stones, and the odd bow.
>Dawns on you that the largest army the Ottoman empire ever assembled was held at bay for 53 days by a handful of professional soldiers and a bunch of starving civilians.

>>34006616
Great video on that: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nJ2T9HNCUTQ

>>34006146
Those morons? Who knew they were somewhere they were even advised not to be, fighting useless colonization tactics in a country the US Empire didn't need to be in. Pretty embarrassing, actually.

>>34006122
4 Royal Marines holding off 200 Taliban in Afghanistan.

Not 'great' in terms of historical scale (e.g Khe Sanh was 16,000 v 60,000+) but in terms of ratios its pretty impressive.

>>34006794
Ah shit my bad, I read the OP as 'what was the last greatest last stand' as in the most recent one.

Brb gunna go hang myself

>>34006768
hey those guys we're American hero's

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>>34006839

>>34006616
I don't know why but that story always gives me chills, going to the Military Gate in Istanbul was probably the best trip of my life.

>>34006572
Did the Russians beat the jews?

>>34006122

Battle of Berlin.

>>34006768
>whines about the reason they were there
>neglects the fact that it was an EMBASSY, with civilians
>doesn't give a hit that they took everyone and their fucking brother with them.

Fuck you.
Colonialism my ass.
I don't think it's the greatest last stand ever.

Fall of carthage

>>34006473
Last stand, not Cold War.

>>34006146
...2011?

>>34006462
can I get a quick rundown on the Alamo?

>>34006488
Taffy 3 you magnificent bastards

>>34007757
LOL Embassy
It was a diplomatic outpost. More jsoc spoiled brat attitude thinking they can do whatever they want. They lost this time, because the locals didn't want them there and the ambassador wanted to push it. I think Clinton is shit, but saying something like it's anyone else's fault those guys were up shit creek is amusing at best.

>>34008051
Yep, bait.

>>34008063
Yep, butthurt hoodrat

>>34008051
Kill yourself motherfucking edge cunt. Watching 13 hours doesn't give you authority over fucking dead people motherfucker. Im about to give you my address, bitch. Come say that shit to my face.

>>34008094
>Clinton didn't give us our toys when we asked for them waaa waaaa and moron civilians and soldiers had happen what you expect to happen when they were in a warzone waaa waaaaa

>>34006616
That gave me chills.

>>34008105

>being this mentally handicapped

im surprised you can even operate a keyboard being this outright retarded

>>34007731
this

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>>34007985
Texans declare independence. Mexicans siege a Texan held mission known as the Alamo, where 185 Texan men hold off 1,800 Mexican troops for 13 days. Legendary American heroes Davy Crocket and James Bowie both died defending the Alamo with their brothers in arms, and although the entire garrison was killed, they took 600 Mexican soldiers down with them, while inspiring the rest of the Texan army to avenge their deaths with cries of "Remember the Alamo!" in the Battle of San Jacinto, where the Texans won the battle and the war, thus giving Texas independence from Mexico.

>>34008087
I don't live in the hood.
An embassy is an embassy; it's there for diplomatic reasons, and there is literally no reason to ever attack one.
Attacking one is usually considered a declaration of war.
Defending one in order to evacuate other personnel is a perfectly legitimate reason to go and fight to defend one.
>>34008105
>Clinton Clinton Clinton
So...I guess we know who's the tumblrite here.
Faggot.

The battle of berlin in ww2.
Eventhough they were nazis.
They were fighting until the last bullet just as there command told them dor there ideologie. So they may bee seen as absolut proud german warriors even if there ideas were totaly wrong

im a bit biased because of family history

but i really enjoyed Reading about the battle of hong kong

>leadership was retarded
>soldiers from various parts of the commonwealth fighting against the oncoming swarm
>the desperation of the cities natives knowing full well what would happen when they lost

>>34006469
Came here to post this. Also this:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Borodino
And this:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Defense_of_Brest_Fortress
And this too:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_for_Hill_3234

>>34008094
Um...

>>34006616
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=46rePgo3JPk

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>>34008137
>m-muh Alamo

>>34008162
>An embassy is an embassy;
Except it wasn't an Embassy. It wasn't even a consulate. Not agreeing or disagreeing with the last stand comment but just stating this.

Battle of Holy Apostles Monastery. 22 Armenians broke out of an encirclement by 6,000 Ottomans.

>>34007985

Others report low mexican numbers.

It was actually 100k mexican troops who had never been defeated, against 300 volunteer first Texans, and they held off the entire mexican army in a zerg style rush until they ran out of ammo and their knives we worn down to the size of tooth picks. Only then did god reach down with his own and brought up the first Texans to heaven.

In the end 300 Texans were soared death and given a free ride to heaven by god himself, and 99k mexicans died.

Again it was only because they ran out of bullets

>>34006122

Tet offensive.

>>34006462
>i remember it

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>>34008137
how will you feel when californians outnumber texans in texas, just as they took over colorado and ban guns as they do everywhere they go

then turn the alamo into a latinx heritage museum. such a hateful symbol of white violence against people of color will not stand in OUR town

just like they did with confederate monuments in louisianna this past week

>>34008428
Tear down all of the traitors' monuments. Reduce them to a chapter in a history text.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Saragarhi
21 Sikhs of the British Army hold a fort in the Hindu Kush against 10,000 Afghans, inflict 500 casualties, ruin the campaign for the Afghans despite 100% losses for the Sikhs. It is now a holiday for all Sikh regiments.

>>34006122
Battle of Wizna

>One of the symbols of the battle is Captain Władysław Raginis, the commanding officer of the Polish force, who swore to hold his position as long as he was alive.
>When the last two bunkers under his command ran out of ammunition, he ordered his men to surrender their arms and committed suicide by throwing himself on a live grenade.

>>34008137

To the People of Texas & All Americans in the World:

Fellow citizens & compatriots—I am besieged, by a thousand or more of the Mexicans under Santa Anna—I have sustained a continual Bombardment & cannonade for 24 hours & have not lost a man. The enemy has demanded a surrender at discretion, otherwise, the garrison are to be put to the sword, if the fort is taken—I have answered the demand with a cannon shot, & our flag still waves proudly from the walls. I shall never surrender or retreat. Then, I call on you in the name of Liberty, of patriotism & everything dear to the American character, to come to our aid, with all dispatch—The enemy is receiving reinforcements daily & will no doubt increase to three or four thousand in four or five days. If this call is neglected, I am determined to sustain myself as long as possible & die like a soldier who never forgets what is due to his own honor & that of his country—Victory or Death.

William Barret Travis

Lt. Col. comdt

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>>34008610
>F

>>34008496
Go suck the Federal government's dick some more, faggot

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>>34008496
you've got that right. once we clear the commies out, every saint MLK blvd will be renamed to dylan "storm" roof street

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>>34006488

are there any other cases of destroyers taking on and damaging heavy cruisers like at Samar?

the only other example I can think of is HMS Glowworm

>get lost from your escort group in fog and heavy seas
>see two german destroyers and open fire on them
>suddenly the fucking Admiral Hipper looms out of the fog 10,000 yards away
>rather than retreat with little hope of surviving you decide to inflict as much damage as possible to the enemy
>lay smoke and turn towards her at flank speed
>weather a storm of 8 and 4 inch shells as you rapidly close to within 800 yards of the Hipper
>the ship is in flames, your fore gun is destroyed and the bridge is shot away by an 8 inch shell killing everyone but the Captain and 1 other officer
>the ship's klaxon is damaged and left constantly wailing
>launch a full spread of torpedoes which narrowly miss
>the captain orders a final hard turn to starboard to ram the Hipper
>the Glowworm puts a 40 foot hole in Hipper's bow and crumples herself like a tin can
>not long after ramming the burning Glowworm sinks after 3 8-inch hits in quick succession and a boiler explosion kill 80% of her crew

the Captain got the first Victoria Cross of the war and HMS Renown(the ship Glowworm was escorting) fought off both Scharnhorst and Gneisenau less than a day later

>>34007731
This.

Also that Irish (not totally sure but I believe that's right) force sent by NATO to Africa and was basically abandoned for a month surrounded by kangz and survived with little/no KIA

>>34008693
>thot

What does this mean?

>>34008806
that hoe over there

>>34008771
> a month

It was like 3 days. I saw the Siege of Jadotville too

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>>34008610
F

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>>34008610
A true American hero. Don't know why they portrayed him as a faggot in the movie.

>>34007985
https://youtu.be/Eyu3OIn5A00

>>34007985
>Messy political situation in Mexico; corruption, factions, you name it, mostly (as now) taking place in Mexico City itself
>Santa Anna maneuvers his way into power, declares himself de facto dictator, shreds the Mexican Constitution
>Half of Mexico (basically, everybody north of Mexico City and its surroundings) forms councils and other bodies and starts talking secession
>Mexico City holds a huge chunk of the population and wealth of the country; Santa Anna forms a huge army from that and marches north
>Santa Anna kills everybody. Nobody can even slow him down
>Texas is at the far north end of Mexico (except for unsettled lands in the Rockies); it has the most time to organize its tiny population, actually declare independence, and try to raise armies and fortify towns
>Santa Anna arrives in San Antonio with most of his troops (others were dispatched to places like Goliad), lays siege for 13 days before launching waves of pre-dawn attacks
>The third wave gets through the flimsiest part of the wall, the Texians are wiped out
>Santa Anna pursues the last and largest opposing force left in all of Mexico almost all the way to the US border
>SIESTA!
>Angry Texians charge his sleeping troops, catch them by surprise, kill or capture them
>Maybe if I wear a corporal's uniform they won't recognize me...
>(Mexican troops): "GENERAL! IT'S YOU"
>Forced to sign treaty recognizing Texas independence
>Get deposed back home in Mexico City (for now; he became dictator like 3-4 times in his life, which exemplifies most of what's wrong with Mexico)

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>>34006462
>>34008137
As a Texan, gotta agree with this one.

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Camarón/Camerone

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

>>34009198
They told Santa Ana sign the treaty or hang from the tree.

My ancestors fought at the battle of San Jacinto. It's always been my favorite 12 minute battle.

Holy Band of Thebes

300 men (actually 300 not like the spartans) against the might of Phillip II and a little known commander known as Alexander of Macedon

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

Also Hannibal Barca

>>34006122
The shootout in Salon Boricua

>>34006488
"This will be a fight against overwhelming odds from which survival cannot be expected. We will do what damage we can."

Solid choice

>>34008526
polan stronk
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=epeQwq-aYV0

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>>34008559
>AoYJ

>>34008559
fucking hell
Italians really can't fight for shit

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>>34006154
>Rorkes Drift
mah nigga

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>>34008351
>>34006616
Even at the hieght of their power, Turks were just awful

I think history would have us believe the battle of roncevaux pass was the definitive "last stand" but the reality was probably alot less knights standing in the face of their and alot more terrified screams of fat nobles as they were surrounded and butchered to a man by Basque looters

>>34006122
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stand_of_the_Swiss_Guard

>>34012229
Argentina is white!

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>>34012255
Ottomans can't war.

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>>34006122

>>34007731
>>34008121
>>34008771
>wehraboos
berlin was a shitshow

>>34012640
Sure was for the Soviets

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>>34012714
yeah okay

>>34012723
(((wikipedia))))

Good Goy my Comrade

>>34006122
Chris Dorner

>>34012734
>i-it's not true! I'm right! your facts are made up
wehraboos. wehraboos never change.

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rgeant Roy P. BENAVIDEZ

>On the morning of 2 May 1968, a 12-man Special Forces Reconnaissance Team was inserted by helicopters in a dense jungle area west of Loc Ninh, Vietnam to gather intelligence information about confirmed large-scale enemy activity.

>This area was controlled and routinely patrolled by the North Vietnamese Army.

> After a short period of time on the ground, the team met heavy enemy resistance, and requested emergency extraction.

> Three helicopters attempted extraction, but were unable to land due to intense enemy small arms and anti-aircraft fire.

>Sergeant BENAVIDEZ was at the Forward Operating Base in Loc Ninh monitoring the operation by radio when these helicopters returned to off-load wounded crew members and to assess aircraft damage.

> Sergeant Benavidez voluntarily boarded a returning aircraft to assist in another extraction attempt.

> Realizing that all the team members were either dead or wounded and unable to move to the pickup zone, he directed the aircraft to a nearby clearing where he jumped from the hovering helicopter, and ran approximately 75 meters under withering small arms fire to the crippled team.

>Prior to even reaching the team's position he was wounded in his right leg, face, and head.

> Despite these painful injuries, he took charge, repositioning the team members and directing their fire to facilitate the landing of an extraction aircraft, and the loading of wounded and dead team members.

> He then threw smoke canisters to direct the aircraft to the team's position.

> Despite his severe wounds and under intense enemy fire, he carried and dragged half of the wounded team members to the awaiting aircraft.

> He then provided protective fire by running alongside the aircraft as it moved to pick up the remaining team members.

> As the enemy's fire intensified, he hurried to recover the body and classified documents on the dead team leader.

>>34012749
(((Comrade))), the Soviets only won because the Vishna broke the binding blood contract with the Führer for military assistance and the guaranteed beginning of Ragnarök. This betrayal lead to Soviet Jews altering true history and Führer Hitler faking his death and leaving for the last true Aryan paradise on Earth, Argentina.

>When he reached the leader's body, Sergeant Benavidez was severely wounded by small arms fire in the abdomen and grenade fragments in his back.

> At nearly the same moment, the aircraft pilot was fatally wounded, and his helicopter crashed.

>Although in extremely critical condition due to his multiple gunshot and shrapnel wounds, Sergeant Benavidez secured the classified documents and made his way back to the flaming wreckage, where he aided the wounded out of the overturned aircraft, and gathered the survivors into a defensive perimeter.

> Under increasing enemy automatic weapons and grenade fire, he moved around the perimeter distributing water and ammunition to his weary men, reinstilling in them a will to live and fight.

>Facing a buildup of enemy opposition with a beleaguered team, Sergeant BENAVIDEZ mustered his strength, began calling in danger close air strikes and directed the fire from supporting gunships to suppress the enemy's fire and so permit another extraction attempt.

>He was wounded again in his thigh by small arms fire while administering first aid to a wounded team member just before another extraction helicopter was able to land.

> His indomitable spirit kept him going as he began to ferry his comrades to the craft.

> On his second trip with the wounded, he was clubbed from behind by an enemy soldier. His jaw and skull were shattered.

> In the ensuing hand-to-hand combat, he sustained additional bayonet wounds to his head, face, and arms before killing his adversary

> He then continued under devastating fire to carry the wounded to the helicopter. It was later found out that in the confusion he loaded two enemy bodies into the helicopter because "I couldn't see a damn thing, I was bleeding from my eyes, and I wanted to make damn sure I didn't leave anyone behind"

>Upon reaching the aircraft, he spotted and killed two enemy soldiers who were rushing the craft from an angle that prevented the aircraft door gunner from firing upon them.

>With little strength remaining, he made one last trip to the perimeter to ensure that all classified material had been collected or destroyed, and to bring in the remaining wounded.

>Only then, in extremely serious condition from numerous wounds and loss of blood, did he allow himself to be pulled into the extraction aircraft.

>Sergeant BENAVIDEZS' gallant choice to join voluntarily his comrades who were in critical straits, to expose himself constantly to withering enemy fire, and his refusal to be stopped despite numerous severe wounds, saved the lives of at least eight men.

>He was evacuated to the base camp, examined, and thought to be dead. As he was placed in a body bag among the other dead in body bags, he was suddenly recognized by a friend who called for help. A doctor came and examined him and he too believed Benavidez was dead. The doctor was about to zipper up the bag when Benavidez managed to spit in his face, alerting the doctor that he was still alive. Benavidez had a total of 37 separate bullet, bayonet, and shrapnel wounds from the six hour fight with the enemy battalion

____________________________________

>Prior to his attachment to the 5th SFG

>He stepped on a land mine during a patrol and was evacuated to the United States, where doctors at Fort Sam Houston concluded he would never walk again and began preparing his medical discharge papers.

>As Benavidez noted in his 1981 MOH acceptance speech, stung by the diagnosis, as well as flag burnings and media criticism of the US military presence in Vietnam he saw on TV, he began an unsanctioned nightly training ritual in an attempt to redevelop his ability to walk.

>Getting out of bed at night (against doctors orders), Benavidez would crawl using his elbows and chin to a wall near his bedside and (with the encouragement of his fellow patients, many of whom were permanently paralyzed and/or missing limbs), he would prop himself against the wall and attempt to lift himself unaided, starting by wiggling his toes, then his feet, and then eventually (after several months of excruciating practice that by his own admission often left him in tears) pushing himself up the wall with his ankles and legs.

>After over a year of hospitalization, Benavidez walked out of the hospital in July 1966, with his wife at his side, determined to return to combat in Vietnam.

>Benavidez returned to Fort Bragg and began training for the elite Army Special Forces.

>Once qualified and accepted, he became a member of the 5th Special Forces Group; and the Studies and Observations Group (SOG).

>Despite continuing pain from his wounds, he returned to South Vietnam in January 1968.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_oUtJxE4sjs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VIJzqDBMObQ

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>>34012118
umad?

You don't fuck with the Swiss Guard.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stand_of_the_Swiss_Guard

>>34012803
>the last true Aryan paradise on Earth, Argentina.
Truly well known for its Aryan majority.

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>>34006122
The "Gunny can't find me, I'm not showing up for that working party" stand of 2010.

>>34012520
Anything off that Sabaton album really

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

>Ottomans want Europe again
>Ottomans surround Vienna and demand surrender
>The Ottoman commander, Kara Mustafa Pasha, is a massive dick and the last city that surrendered got war-crime'd, fuck that.
>Defenders demolish houses around the city walls and fuck the shit out of the Ottomans while being heavily outnumbered
>Vienna endures two months of siege
>Ottomans destroy parts of the walls and constantly attempt to mine under the city to set explosives
>Defenders hold the Ottomans off with counter mines, barricades, and GRIT
>Just as all hope seems lost, the King of Poland and his Holy League buddies show up Gandalf-style
>The battle culminates in a cavalry charge of 18,000 soldiers led by 3,000 winged hussars
>The cavalry blasts through the Ottoman lines and gangbangs the fuck out of their camp
>Vienna's defenders cannot control their murderboners and sally forth to exact retribution
>Holy League proceeds to kick the Ottomans out of Hungary.
>Kara Mustafa Pasha gets executed for his failure by being strangled by a silk rope pulled by a bunch of dudes
>Ottomans are so buttblasted that they quit trying to expand into Europe

There was a battle, I think in ww2, in Turkey.

I can't fucking remember the name of it.

But basically it was a hill defense, I think the Ottomans were defending. There was a large ammunition dump on the hill. The hill was about to get overunn, when the commnader ignited the gunpowder cache, causing a massive explosion killing every on on top of the hill and most of the attackers.

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>>34013036
WW1*****

>>34006616
The entire thing is just crazy.
>Byzantines try to mount cannon on their walls
>This actually damages their walls
>No stones to repair wall damage so use wood and dirt
>Actually works better against Ottoman cannons
>Ottomans build a giant siege tower
>Byzantines burn it down
>Ottomans try to tunnel in
>There just happens to be one guy in Constantinople who knows how to do counter-sapping work
>Oh and somehow he's Scottish, because why the fuck not
>Can't attack city from one side because there's an Italian city in the way.
>Ottomans invent the world's first mortar so they can shoot over the Italians and into Constantinople
>Entire Ottoman navy spends the afternoon attacking 3 becalmed Italian boats
>Decisive Italian Naval Victory
>Mehmet II is so angry he charges into the surf, drags his Admiral out of a boat, and beats the man's eye out
>Ottoman navy can't get into the Golden Horn because Turks can't into naval battle
>One night, they take half their navy, pick it up, and carry it over land, around the Italian city, to the other end of the Golden Horn
>Finally break through into Constantinople
>It's so depopulated that the Ottomans have to establish separate peace arrangements with isolated towns inside it
>It's so poor that the three days of plundering is ended after two because they're all out of things to plunder
>And most of the second day was just making sure of that
1453 was a shitshow.

Thermopylae? Troy? Helms Deep? Kinda obvious but still.

>>34006122
Obviously the battle of Thermopylae.

>>34013100
Oh, and lest I forget:
>Ottomans have no literary tradition at this time
>Greeks and Italians write all the accounts of the Siege
>Making this one of the few occasions where the losers wrote the history

>>34013100
>>34013138
Holy shit. How could the turks ever recover from that?

>>34012836
That's a hardcore motherfucker right there.

>>34012571
T. E. Lawrence of "Lawrence of Arabia" fame thought he'd be much less revered if he could just convince people how fucking awful the Ottoman soldiers were at their job.

The Lone KV-2 at the Battle of Raseiniai
>KV-2 waits at a crossroads, holding off the 6th panzer division, trying to head back to their headquarters to the west
>opens fire on the convoy, forcing them to turn around
>50mm anti-tank guns were set up, and fired on the tank. but it remained.
>the KV fired on the battery of 50mm guns soon after, destroying them
>then they brought out a 105mm howitzer to try and destroy it
>but couldn't get within a safe distance to get an accurate shot
>they tried to position an 88mm anti-aircraft gun around 700 meters away, but the crew spotted it and destroyed that as well
>at night German soldiers tried to take it out with explosives, but were met with machine gun fire
>they distracted the crew with panzers, then attacked with anti-aircraft shells
>after the attack, German troops snuck up to the tank, whose armor was full of holes from the large shells
>to their surprise, the turret began to move
>one soldier ran up, dropped a grenade in the tank, killing the 6 crew members
>the Germans buried the crewmembers nearby out for respect for such a great foe
tl;dr "Fury" but with probably drunk Russians instead of Americans

>>34012836
>is presumed dead yet spits in someone's face.
>Thought to be paralyzed but pulls himself up and relearns to walk
So what you're saying is quentin tarantino is a plagiarizing son of a bitch? That he took the courageous exploits of a vietnam vet and pretended like some skinny chick did the same thing through sheer willpower in a matter of hours? What a shithead.

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>>34006616

>>34013044
>>34013036
Gallipoli

>>34013248
>then they brought out a 105mm howitzer to try and destroy it
>but couldn't get within a safe distance to get an accurate shot
That bit isn't in the wiki. It also makes no sense unless they were somehow too retarded to use indirect fire.

>>34013100
>>34013138
I'm unfamiliar with the Italian city and the Italian ships. Is all this in the wikipedia article?

>>34009787
>France big "last stand" moment
> they still surrender before it's over

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30 Nasty girls, 20 ANA vs 300+ Taliban

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

>>34006122
>On my position!

>>34006122

Sempronius Densus, 69 AD

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sack_of_Rome_(1527)

Deus vult
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CB3H05OhVDI

>>34008610
Fucking F

>>34013100
>Oh and somehow he's Scottish, because why the fuck not

I've got an image in my head of groundskeeper Willie teaching Byzantines how to counter sap cockroaches.
Thank you anon.

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https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Long_Tan

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>>34013546

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>>34008351
holy shit what

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>>34013146
They didn't. Istanbul is still a shit hole. Turns out, reconstruction is yet another of the things that
>frustrates the turk

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

If rorkes drift counts then so does the Battle of Britain, for sure it ranks with the best preserved inspirational speech of all time.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CKOuS0pmEEk

>>34008428
Jefferson Davis belongs in a museum, not as a public monument. Lee is another story.

>>34012878
the war for the malvinas was an epic last stand too

>>34013248
(end bit) And an actually competent German force

>>34013435
the interesting bit is that this might be true

>>34015461
Marse Robert was the kind of man they arent going to make anymore. he had his personal convictions, and beliefs that he wouldnt bend or break on no matter how hard anyone else would push him.

its a damn shame we lost Jackson so early.

>>34008694
Didn't the captain of the Hipper personally recommend him for the Victoria cross in a letter to the british admirality?

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>>34006462
forgot what that was

quick run down please?

>>34013465
Italian city was Galata which was a Genoese colony from the 13th to 15th centuries.

The Italian ships are mentioned in passing in the Wikipedia article but you'll have to do more research into the siege or Admiral Baltoghlu.

There was a doctor by the name of Niccolo Barbaro in the city at the time of the siege who wrote a first hand account of it that's generally pretty easy to find.

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Turkish War of Independence. It was a war against almost all world powers.

>>34013248
I thought it was a KV-1?

>>34016182
it's disputed, it's likely that it was either one.

>>34016006
Yep.
Said captain later became one of the heads of the postwar German navy.

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>>34012906
>that part when he gets reinforced by the First Sergeant and Platoon Sergeant

>>34014981
>22 random peasants trapped by several thousand Ottoman soldiers
>after 19 days and three losses they've killed over 550 t*rks
>decide they've done their jobs
>in the middle of the night tell the monks to go out and claim they want to negotiate a surrender
>while this is going on the Armenians walk home
>really, they just walk out of the monastery and 5,500 soldiers all fail to recognize them

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>>34018468
that's 1 to 300, wtf