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    Posted: 02-Nov-2005 at 14:45
What was your first historical hero you can remember?

mine was:

Roald Amundsen
When I was a child I was completely fascinated by polar explorers, Shackleton, Nansen, and of course Jules Verne's captain Hatteras, but my favorite was Amundsen. The first to do the northeast passage and the first man to reach the South Pole. His first reaching the south pole after an exciting race with Robert Falcon "for God's sake look after our people" Scott was of course a fascinating story.

During the years my main interest has switched to warmer places, but I still want to visit Antarctica some day.
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I had many. The first must have been Richard the Lionhearted. That is, until I started reading about him. That was in my pre-teen days. I moved on the Alexander the Great around 11, and finally to Flavius Belisarius when I entered high school.
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no specific hero, but as a  teen i really loved pirates and knights...
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The first hero I was fascinated by and really existed was "Dietrich von Bern", aka Theoderic the Great, from a book of German "Heldensagen" (Legends of the Heroes) that my fahther read to me when I was five or six.
I preferred Siegfried then, but he's purely mythical.
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Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose.

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"Patriot of Patriots", is what Gandhiji described of Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose.

Subhash Chandra Bose was one of the most influential and charismatic leader of pre-Independence India .

His life was full of mystery and adventure and indeed his death has been a major issue and creates controversy from time to time.

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Marco Polo. I saw a  movie about him when I was about 4 and the rest is history! Okay, that's a bad pun, but that movie got me hooked on history.
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 karl marx

 

and

 batman

 

and of course

 george lucas!!!!!!!



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Napoleon until I was 11, then Horatio at the bridge til I grew old enough to simply settle for multiple favourites.
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Batman's not really a historical figure. Though I have and continue to admire Superman. I still read his comics.

Napoleon and Frederick the Great were another two people that I looked up to.



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Apart from the likes of Robin Hood and Hereward the Wake when I was small, in mid-teens I kind of settled on Charles II (of England and Scotland) as a role model .  Not just because of Nell Gwyn and the Duchess of Portsmouth and the rest, but he struck me as a pretty sensible and non-ideological kind of guy. Maybe 'hero' is the wrong word though.

Frederick II (HRE) has a similar appeal: it always struck me as a good idea to buy back Palestine rather than fight over it.

For 'real' heroes, though, it would be difficult to put anyone ahead of Nelson.

 

 
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Originally posted by gcle2003

For 'real' heroes, though, it would be difficult to put anyone ahead of Nelson.

I think millions of nationalists all over the world would disagree with you here.
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Recently voted greatest living Englishman seems my childhood choice was well chosen.

However he did once say "I don't have any heroes, they're all useless."
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Of course kids don't like military heroes. Mine was D'Artagnan (he was for real), Zorro and Robin Hood.
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Originally posted by Belisarius

Originally posted by gcle2003

For 'real' heroes, though, it would be difficult to put anyone ahead of Nelson.

I think millions of nationalists all over the world would disagree with you here.

No doubt. The question does refer to childhood heroes.



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In cartoon Robin

 

 

 

In life Imam Ali Bin Abi Talib.

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I think my favorites were Alexander the great, Cuahtemoc, Vercingetorix and El Cid (Rodrigo Daz de Vivar).
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Hercules, as I was being told his tales since 4-5 yrs old.

Alexander the Great, as when I was a child, we had problems with Macedonia, because a bunch of slavs wanted the name (the story is still going on). I learnt songs about Alexander, and heard his tales.

D'Artagnan, the best of all, when I was a bit older (9-10 yrs). I read the three musketeers two years ago and I loved it. I still have D'Artagnan as my hero.
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