generals and kings who died in action?
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Topic: generals and kings who died in action?
Posted By: Batu
Subject: generals and kings who died in action?
Date Posted: 28-Oct-2006 at 10:22
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General Custer was killed in action.ok you write the rest :) ------------- A wizard is never late,nor he is early he arrives exactly when he means to :) ( Gandalf the White in the Third Age of History Empire Of Istari ) |
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Posted By: Krum
Date Posted: 28-Oct-2006 at 10:39
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The founder of Today Bulgaria Khan Asparukh was killed in a battle against Khazars in 700 AC. ------------- It is only the dead who have seen the end of war. Plato |
Posted By: Turk Nomad
Date Posted: 28-Oct-2006 at 10:45
| Sultan Murad II was killed after battle by a damaged serb soldier. |
Posted By: Batu
Date Posted: 28-Oct-2006 at 11:36
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Sultan Murad died becouse he was merciful and nice.he was walking in
the battlefield to help the wounded but he was killed by a scum( i dont
remember his name )
------------- A wizard is never late,nor he is early he arrives exactly when he means to :) ( Gandalf the White in the Third Age of History Empire Of Istari ) |
Posted By: Kapikulu
Date Posted: 28-Oct-2006 at 12:11
That is actually Murad I, not Murad II
Scum for one nation can be hero for the other one. ------------- We gave up your happiness Your hope would be enough; we couldn't find neither; we made up sorrows for ourselves; we couldn't be consoled; A Strange Orhan Veli |
Posted By: Krum
Date Posted: 28-Oct-2006 at 12:46
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May be one of the most famous persons in ancient history.
Leonidas,the king of sparta. ------------- It is only the dead who have seen the end of war. Plato |
Posted By: jacobtowne
Date Posted: 28-Oct-2006 at 14:10
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While it's true that Custer was a general officer during the Civil War,
at the time of the Battle on the Little Big Horn he was a Lt. Col. of
the 7th Cavalry. (small point). Lt. Gen. Simon Bolivar Buckner, Jr., commander of U.S. ground forces during the Battle of Okinawa, was killed by a Japanese shell during the final days of that battle. He was the son of the well-known Confederate general. JT |
Posted By: Majkes
Date Posted: 28-Oct-2006 at 19:43
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Great Polish Crown Hetman died with a sword in his hand in the Battle of Ceora 1620 being over 70 years old. |
Posted By: Hannibal the Great
Date Posted: 28-Oct-2006 at 20:57
| Theodoric of the Visigoths in the battle of Chalons, killed by members of the Ostrogoth tribe. |
Posted By: rider
Date Posted: 29-Oct-2006 at 03:40
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Batu, as far as I know, the term 'scum' means only inanimate objects therefore you cannot use it as a description towards men. Batu, refrain from showing us the nationalist side in you as well.
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Posted By: BigL
Date Posted: 29-Oct-2006 at 04:17
| nelson |
Posted By: Balaam
Date Posted: 29-Oct-2006 at 04:42
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Constantine XI died in the streets of Constantinople next to the other soldiers while defending it against the Turks. ------------- |
Posted By: Batu
Date Posted: 29-Oct-2006 at 07:26
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sorry but he stabbed Murad from his back no offense to anyone i am sorry
------------- A wizard is never late,nor he is early he arrives exactly when he means to :) ( Gandalf the White in the Third Age of History Empire Of Istari ) |
Posted By: rider
Date Posted: 29-Oct-2006 at 07:45
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I will release the 'Pending Approval' for now, Batu.
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Posted By: Emperor Barbarossa
Date Posted: 29-Oct-2006 at 09:11
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The Scottish general Andrew de Moray died at the Battle of Stirling Bridge. Also, two Hussite generals, Prokop the Great and Prokop the Lesser, died at the Battle of Lipany.
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Posted By: Turk Nomad
Date Posted: 29-Oct-2006 at 11:00
True,and Fatih the Conqueror said he was a hero
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Posted By: Roberts
Date Posted: 29-Oct-2006 at 11:01
Following your logic, all snipers in modern Turkey army are potential "scums", right ? ------------- |
Posted By: Mosquito
Date Posted: 29-Oct-2006 at 14:24
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Wladyslaw III (nicknamed of Varna). King of Poland and Hungary, leaded crusade against Turks and got killed in the battle of Varna 1444 AD against forces of Murad II. He was very young, became king of Poland in age of 10 and next when he was 16 he recived Hungarian crown. When died he was only 20 years old. Both the war he started against Turks and his death were unnecessary. ------------- "I am a pure-blooded Polish nobleman, without a single drop of bad blood, certainly not German blood" - Friedrich Nietzsche |
Posted By: Barbarroja
Date Posted: 30-Oct-2006 at 07:42
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Sancho Ramirez (Sancho I of Aragon and V of Navarra) died during the siege of Huesca.
James III of Mallorca, he died during the battle of Lluchmajor (1349) and he was the last independent king of Mallorca because his son was in the exile.
Peter II of Aragon (in fact the first Aragonese king crowned by the Pope) died in the battle of Muret (Provence, 1213)
Pedro de Valdivia (1553) fighting against the natives. ------------- I'm sorry but my English is not very good. I'm from Vila-real (Valencia, Spain) |
Posted By: Mordoth
Date Posted: 30-Oct-2006 at 08:26
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- German King was drowned to an Aegean River during the Crusades of Anatolia .
- Also , Sultan Murad Han is assasinated ( not killed during battle ) by Serbian Milos Obilic .
- KAnuni is dead during battle of Zigetvar .
- Bosnian Knight Tvrtko is also killed during the battle of SRPSINDIGI . (Also many feudal knights of Slavs are killed too )
- Prinz Eugen was about to be shot but the Janissary that targeted him was called back , LoL . After that ; Prinz crushed us .
- Mehmed II The Conqueror was dead during the movement of his army .
- Konstantine the last emperor of Byzantine is shot by a cannon and dead in battlefield .
------------- If Electricity Comes from Electrons ; does Morality come from Morons :| |
Posted By: bggeneral
Date Posted: 30-Oct-2006 at 09:32
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Actually you are wrong, I think.
First, Murad was killed not AFTER but Before battle, from Serbian spy. Not on the battlefield, but in his tent. His son take control of the army and win the battle. This was in battle agains the united armies of Srbs and Bulgars on Kosovo pole. |
Posted By: Mordoth
Date Posted: 30-Oct-2006 at 10:13
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That is not true bggeneral ; probably ; Murat I was wandering around in the battlefield and he was backstabbed by the wounded Serbian " Obilic " . And that was an assasination .
Right, Battle of Srpsindigi was fought between Turks and United Slavs , however Bosnian Knight Tvrtko was also killed during battle like other feudal Lords of the region . ( many are unknown , it was a complete catastrophy for the orthodox dominancy ) ------------- If Electricity Comes from Electrons ; does Morality come from Morons :| |
Posted By: Raider
Date Posted: 30-Oct-2006 at 10:39
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Let us see Hungarian history:
- duke Koppány, a pagan rebel leader killed in action (997). Later his body was cut into four pieces and was sent to the four corners of the country.
- king Samuel, he was killed when he tried to escape from the battle of Ménfő. [fought against the deposed king Peter and the Holy Roman Empire](1044)
- king Salamon (1087), He was deposed and went to the Pechenegs. He took part one of their raids against the Byzantines and died in battle.
- prince Coloman, the duke of Slavonia was mortally wounded in the battle of Mohi against the Tartars.
- king Uladislaus I died in the battle of Varna. His head was put in a stake to demoralise his troops.
- king Louis II drowned the the Csele stream when tried to escape from the battle of Mohi.
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Posted By: Mordoth
Date Posted: 30-Oct-2006 at 10:54
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Likewise , the last addition of Raider ; The Germanic King ( I forgot his name ) was drowned in the Stream of an Aegean river .
- All the lords of Crusades are killed during war by Turkish commander Alparslan and Melikshah . ------------- If Electricity Comes from Electrons ; does Morality come from Morons :| |
Posted By: Lotus
Date Posted: 30-Oct-2006 at 11:22
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Harold, king of Anglo-Saxon England Battle of Hastings, killed by those nasty |
Posted By: kilroy
Date Posted: 30-Oct-2006 at 14:21
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Emperor Valens died at the Battle of Andrianople.
Gusatavus II Adolphus was killed at the Battle of Lutzen leading a charge.
General 'Stonewall' Jackson was wounded by friendly fire at the battle of Chancellorsville and died seven days later.
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Posted By: Styrbiorn
Date Posted: 31-Oct-2006 at 08:06
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Swedish kings had a tendency to die violent deaths, these are those killed in battle (afaik).
Ottar (Beowulf's Othere) died in battle against the Danes. Ingvar was killed in Norway. Anund, died in battle in Kvenland. Erik & Erik, two heirs/pretenders who died in battle against each other. Magnus Nilsson, elected king by the Geats, died in battle at Fotevik in 1134. Magnus Henriksson, died in battle at Örebro in 1161. Karl Sverkersson, who killed the above, died in an assault at a castle on Visingsö in 1167. Sverker Karlsson, died in the battle of Gestilren in 1210. Gustav Adolf, died at Lützen in 1632. Charles XII died at the siege of Halden in 1718. |
Posted By: Sarmata
Date Posted: 31-Oct-2006 at 10:10
| Stanislaw Zolkiewski, Wladyslaw III Warnenczyk |
Posted By: Sarmata
Date Posted: 31-Oct-2006 at 10:10
| ...Jan Chodkiewicz |
Posted By: Batu
Date Posted: 31-Oct-2006 at 10:41
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Enver Pasha was killed by soviet machine gunnery.
------------- A wizard is never late,nor he is early he arrives exactly when he means to :) ( Gandalf the White in the Third Age of History Empire Of Istari ) |
Posted By: John the Kern
Date Posted: 31-Oct-2006 at 17:20
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Brian Boru, old at the time defeated the norsemen and thier irish allies at Clontaf, cant remeber the date. One of his sons also died. ------------- My peoples tale is written in blood |
Posted By: rider
Date Posted: 31-Oct-2006 at 18:06
Clever guys, I'd say. Who got the throne after their deaths? ------------- |
Posted By: Styrbiorn
Date Posted: 01-Nov-2006 at 03:44
Halsten Stenkilsson was the new king's name, brother to one of the Eriks. The other Erik was Erik the Heathen and I was wrong when talking about pretenders; they were both kings, the heathen elected by the Swedes because he promised to upheld the old customs, and Stenkilsson elected by the Christian Geats (it was a joint kingdom). Whether their antagonism that led to them battling each other was personal or a step in the fight between the old beliefs and Christianity is not really known. Halsten was only king for a few years though, since the Swedes drove him away, not wanting a Geat as king. Instead they elected a Scandinavian living in Russia, Anund Gårdske ("the Gårdarike-ish"), a descendant of Rurik/Hrörik. He was also kicked out pretty soon in any case...
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Posted By: rider
Date Posted: 01-Nov-2006 at 03:53
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What time was this approx? I'd say the 9th and 10th centuries?
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Posted By: Styrbiorn
Date Posted: 01-Nov-2006 at 04:24
| Mid 11th. The Eriks killed each other in 1066 or 1067, while Halsten was king 1067-1070 and Anund 1070-1075, approximately. The last heathen king was Sven the Sacrificer around 1084-1088 (who BTW was killed by Inge, brother of Erik and Halsten Stenkilsson). |
Posted By: Knights
Date Posted: 01-Nov-2006 at 06:11
Epaminondas, the Thebean General who ended the Spartan hegemony at Leuctra (371BC). He died during the Theban victory at Mantinea in 362BC while in pursuit of his fleeing opponents. It was a great loss as Epaminondas was an exceptional strategist and tactician. RIP.   Hasdrubal Barca, younger brother of Hannibal Barca. He died - while providing reinforcements and siege equipment to Hannibal in Italy - at the Battle of Metaurus against the Roman Generals Salinator and Nero. With no hope of victory he gloriously ran into the fray and was killed. His head was found after the battle and then thrown into Hannibal's camp. Hasdrubal was not an equal to his older sibling Hannibal in any way, however he did have some success against the Scipio's in Spain. RIP. ------------- |
Posted By: Joinville
Date Posted: 01-Nov-2006 at 07:21
The Germanic king sounds like the Holy Roman Germanic Emperor Frederick I Barbarossa of the Hohenstaufen dynasty, who drowned in a river in Anatolia during the Third Crusade. But he was taking a swim, no battle involved. And as far as I know neither Alparslan (the great Seljuk ruler who died in 1072, and not the later mad teenage ruler of Aleppo) nor Melikshah had time and opportunity to fight the crusaders (they fought the Byzantines). Kilidjarslan did though. ------------- One must not insult the future. |
Posted By: Knights
Date Posted: 01-Nov-2006 at 14:58
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Ah Yes, I recall that 1. Gaius Flaminius - One of two current Roman Consuls in the year 217BC - was killed during the Battle of Lake Trasimene. Hannibal's forces lay in ambush in the surrounding hills/woods and struck in the mist. Flaminius was killed in the action along with a great majority of his army. Also, Lucius Aemilius Paullus was killed at the Battle of Cannae in 216BC. He was the Roman consul at that time along with his partner in battle Gaius Terentius Varro. At Cannae, Hannibal had managed to completely envelop his much larger foe. Varro opted for escape while Aemilius Paullus fought gloriously to the death in the fray. After the killing fest was done, Hannibal ordered a search for Paullus' body and honoured him with a special funerary ceremony.  ------------- |
Posted By: Patrinos
Date Posted: 01-Nov-2006 at 15:17
Achilles in his last moments...out of Troy's walls... |
Posted By: Xshayathiya
Date Posted: 04-Nov-2006 at 00:51
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Cyrus II the Great
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Posted By: Maharbbal
Date Posted: 04-Nov-2006 at 06:03
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Nelson! (gotcha!) Actually a great deal of admiral died in action. and the only French king I know who died 'in action' was Louis XII (1515) who got exhausted by his new young wife... Some nations are made for war other not. ------------- I am a free donkey! |
Posted By: jacobtowne
Date Posted: 04-Nov-2006 at 12:37
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At the Battle of Franklin, Tennessee, November 30, 1864, General Hood's Confederates lost over 6,000 of 21,000 effectives, most of them in about two hours. Six Confederate generals died in that battle. JT |
Posted By: kilroy
Date Posted: 04-Nov-2006 at 13:01
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Also, at the Battle of Antietam during the American Civil War 1862, 6 Brigadier and Major generals were killed, another six were wounded. Among the dead were Brig General Isaac Rodman and Major General Joseph Mansfield, i can't remember the other four off the top of my head right now though. ------------- Kilroy was here. |
Posted By: jacobtowne
Date Posted: 04-Nov-2006 at 13:22
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The other four generals who died at Antietam were: CSA: Anderson and Starke USA: Richardson and Branch JT |
Posted By: Hannibal the Great
Date Posted: 04-Nov-2006 at 17:53
| Cyrus the great in a battle againest eastern rebels in Bactria and Mago Barca by Roman troops outside of Milan. |
Posted By: Batu
Date Posted: 11-Nov-2006 at 17:30
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defender of Szigetvar castle was slain in battle
------------- A wizard is never late,nor he is early he arrives exactly when he means to :) ( Gandalf the White in the Third Age of History Empire Of Istari ) |
Posted By: Batu
Date Posted: 26-Nov-2006 at 05:00
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Sahin Beg of Anteppe was killed in action by French soldiers.
------------- A wizard is never late,nor he is early he arrives exactly when he means to :) ( Gandalf the White in the Third Age of History Empire Of Istari ) |
Posted By: Spartan
Date Posted: 26-Nov-2006 at 19:06
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Good subject Batu. Generals/monarchs killed in action correct, not ones dying relatively soon after receiving a serious wound?
Sticking to the great Second Punic War, the Scipio brothers fell before a preponderance of enemy forces in Spain in 211 B.C. (their allies were bought off by Hasdrubal Barca). Tiberius Sempronius Gracchus was betrayed and ambushed in 212 B.C. in Lucania. Marcus Marcellus and his reconnoitring party fell to Hannibal's Numidians in 208 B.C. It has never been confirmed whether or not Spartacus was killed near the Silarus River in 71 B.C., where his slave-army was finally destroyed; his body was never identified. Marcus Licinius Crassus 'Dives' was killed fighting the Parthians at the battle of Carrhae (modern Harran, Turkey) in 53 B.C. Publius Quinctilius Varus was betrayed and killed at the Schlacht im Teutoburger Wald (near modern Osnabruck, Germany) in A.D. 9. Harold Godwinson (Harold II of England) was killed on Senlac Hill amid the Battle of Hastings in 1066. Yi Sun-sin, the famous Korean admiral, was killed by a bullet in 1598, while winning a great victory over the Japanese navy. The great Polish hetman Jan Chodciewicz was killed (or simply died?) upon the conclusion of the great defense against the Ottomons in the fortress of khotyn (Chocim) in 1621. The great Dutch admiral Michiel de Ruyter was killed fighting the French off Sicily in 1676. James Wolfe was killed at Quebec in 1757. Thanks, Spartan  ------------- "A ship is safe in the harbor; but that's not why ships are built" |
Posted By: Sarmata
Date Posted: 27-Nov-2006 at 12:08
| Jan Karol Chodkiewicz simply died at a defence against the Turks, the other generals tried to keep this a secret an dnot let any of the soldiers know the Hetman had died, worrying about the moral of the army. However they managed still to successfully defend against the turkish siege. |
Posted By: Guests
Date Posted: 27-Nov-2006 at 18:04
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In the Peloponnesian War Hippocrates, the Athenian commander was killed at Delium. Brasidas the Spartan commander and Cleon the Athenian were killed at Amphipolis. Both the Athenian commanders (Demosthenes and Nikias) were killed after the debacle at Syracuse.
Cyrus the Younger was killed at Cunaxa in 401 BC.
Jan Zizka, the famous Hussite commander, died of the plague while directing a siege.
CSA General Armistead was killed in Pickett's Charge at Gettysburg and General Albert Sydney Johnston, an Army commander, was killed at Shiloh. Oh, and JEB Stuart at Yellow Tavern.
Buckner was the highest ranking American killed in the Pacific. The highest ranking American killed in WWII was LTG McNair, killed by "friendly fire" (Allied bombers) in France.
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Posted By: Penelope
Date Posted: 27-Nov-2006 at 20:09
| General Craterus died fighting when he attempted to invade the realm of Perdiccas, who was at that time regent for the mentally ill King Philip Arridaeus. Craterus was actually the most experianced of all Macedonian generals still alive after Alexander's death, yet he was defeated by Eumenes who had absolutly no experiance as a military commander. |
Posted By: Sarmata
Date Posted: 28-Nov-2006 at 00:04
| ohh, i forgot a most famous death in our Poish history... Pan Wolodyjowski! defending the eagles nest of kamieniec podolski |
Posted By: Melisende
Date Posted: 29-Nov-2006 at 02:02
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Richard III of England
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Posted By: Sarmata
Date Posted: 30-Nov-2006 at 01:31
| Boleslaw Zajaczkowski, Battle of Zadworze (Polish Thermopylae) |
Posted By: Kerimoglu
Date Posted: 30-Nov-2006 at 02:23
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Many Ottoman Sultans have died in battle. And most in war. ------------- History is a farm. Nations are farmers. What they planted before will show what is going to grow tomorrow! |
Posted By: Batu
Date Posted: 30-Nov-2006 at 05:49
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"many ottoman sultans died in battle.and most in war" this is not true.only I. Murat was killed in battle. ------------- A wizard is never late,nor he is early he arrives exactly when he means to :) ( Gandalf the White in the Third Age of History Empire Of Istari ) |
Posted By: alexandruu
Date Posted: 07-Dec-2006 at 09:37
| Also, Vlad Tepes "the Impaler" died in a fierce battle against the ottoman turks in 1477. |
Posted By: Batu
Date Posted: 08-Dec-2006 at 11:18
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so Count Dracula wasnt immortal then :)
------------- A wizard is never late,nor he is early he arrives exactly when he means to :) ( Gandalf the White in the Third Age of History Empire Of Istari ) |
Posted By: Galahadlrrp
Date Posted: 14-Nov-2008 at 00:57
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--Here be a few generals who died in action:
--Major General John Sedgwick, CG VI Corps, US Army of the Potomac, at the Battle of Spotsylvania, right after telling his men to stand firm because "They couldn't hit an elephant at this distance". --Brigadier General Nathan Bedford Forrest III, US Army Air Force, when his bomber was shot down leading a raid on the submarine yards at Kiel in 1943. --General Albert Sidney Johnston, CG Confederate Army of Mississippi, at the Battle of Shiloh. --Major General James McPherson, CG US Army of Tennessee, at the Battle of Atlanta in 1864. --Marshal of France Turenne, at the Battle of Sassbach in 1675. --Marshal of the Empire Jean Lannes, at the Battle of Aspern-Essling in 1809. --Marshal of the Empire Josef Poniatowski, at the Battle of Leipzig in 1813. --And lastly, though he wasn't much of a general, Publius Quintilius Varus, Governor of Roman Germania, at the Battle of the Teutoburger Wald in 9 AD. |
Posted By: Guests
Date Posted: 14-Nov-2008 at 01:45
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Arturo Prat, sunk with his ship and crew during the Iquique sea battle. He is Chile's more glorious hero
    Another case is Pedro de Valdivia, conquistador of Chile, killed by the Mapuche
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Posted By: Penelope
Date Posted: 18-Nov-2008 at 01:24
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King Gustavus The Great of Sweden. A true "warrior king", whom after creating the Swedish Empire, fell in battle at Luzon in 1632. At his death, Sweden was the third largest nation in europe, after Russia and Spain. ------------- The direct use of force is such a poor solution to any problem, it is generally employed only by small children and large nations. |
Posted By: Count Belisarius
Date Posted: 18-Nov-2008 at 01:28
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Leonidas? ------------- 
Defenders of Ulthuan, Cult of Asuryan (57 Kills and counting) 
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Posted By: Majkes
Date Posted: 18-Nov-2008 at 22:51
I doubt that Sweden was larger than Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. In 1634 PLC had about 1 mio square km - therefore more than Russia. In 1632 it was a little bit less, still I think more than Sweden.
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Posted By: Suren
Date Posted: 19-Nov-2008 at 01:02
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King Cyrus the Great of Persians who was killed by Massagetae tribes.
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Posted By: Darius of Parsa
Date Posted: 19-Nov-2008 at 03:24
Has been stated in past posts. ------------- What is the officer problem? |
Posted By: Temujin
Date Posted: 19-Nov-2008 at 17:52
| yeah and it's called Lützen not Luzon which is a Philippine island... |
Posted By: Styrbiorn
Date Posted: 19-Nov-2008 at 19:13
At its height Sweden covered some 1 mn square km as well, although since most of it was forest it doesn't really matter. |
Posted By: gcle2003
Date Posted: 19-Nov-2008 at 19:36
Sir John Moore at Corunna.
Sir Francis Drake, Nombre Dios Bay.
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Posted By: Suren
Date Posted: 19-Nov-2008 at 20:28
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Kourosh-e-Bozorg
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Posted By: Majkes
Date Posted: 19-Nov-2008 at 22:19
And You think that most of PLC were big cities
 ? But everything counts when we take size of the country and forests are very precious now. I wonder if someone has any source cause there were few countries of similar size in that time: Sweden, Russia, PLC and Spain. I wonder which one was the biggest but situation was changing really quickly those times in Europe. |
Posted By: Guests
Date Posted: 20-Nov-2008 at 10:34
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James II of Scotland was killed at the siege of Roxburgh Castle when one of his own cannons suddenly exploded (which was a far more glorious death than the one meted out to his predecessor James I, who was assassinated in a sewer).
James III was killed at the Battle of Sauchieburn in 1488 by his own rebellious nobility.
James IV was killed at the Battle of Flodden Field in 1513 by the English. ------------- |
Posted By: macayana
Date Posted: 08-Jan-2009 at 03:02
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Antoine Charles Louis Lasalle, French cavalry general, killed at Wagram in 1809 Jean Victor Marie Moreau, one-time French general who defected to the Russians, killed at Dresden in 1813 Patrick Cleburne, Confederate general, killed at Franklin in 1864 Elon Farnsworth, Union cavalry general, killed at Gettysburg in 1863 |
Posted By: sinbad8682
Date Posted: 13-Apr-2009 at 08:57
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Hussein ibn Ali ibn Abi Talib... Killed in Battle of Karbala against the Umayiad caliphate, He was leading an uprising against there unjustice! |
Posted By: Galahadlrrp
Date Posted: 13-Apr-2009 at 14:29
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--A few ancient commanders killed in action:
1. King Pyrrhus of Epirus--the origin of the term "Pyrrhic victory"--was killed by a roofing tile while capturing the city of Argos in a night attack in 272BC. 2. King Antigonus I Monophthalmus, one of the Successors of Alexander the Great, at the Battle of Ipsus in 301BC, the only battle he ever lost. 3. Gnaeus Servilius Geminus, surviving Roman Consul of 217BC, while commanding the Roman center at the Battle of Cannae in 216BC. 4. Caesar Flavius Claudius Julianus, better known as Julian the Apostate, died of wounds received while fighting off a raid on his troops retreating from Ctesiphon in June 363AD. 5. Caesar Constantine II, killed fighting against his brother Constans at the Battle of Aquileia in 340AD. 6. Basilius Nikephoros I of the Later Roman Empire, killed in 811AD at the Battle of Pliska. 7. Consul Gaius Atilius Regulus, killed at the Battle of Telemon in 225BC. |
Posted By: Al Jassas
Date Posted: 13-Apr-2009 at 16:23
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Hello to you all
I don't know if anyone has ever mentioned this battle but the battle of Al-Qasr Al-Kabir (Alcaser Quibir) where three kings died (Sebastian I of Portugal, Abdul-Malik of Morocco and Abdullah the former King of Morocco). Now that is something:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Alc%C3%A1cer_Quibir - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Alc%C3%A1cer_Quibir
Al-Jassas
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Posted By: Nickmard
Date Posted: 17-Apr-2009 at 17:25
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Cyrus the Great. King of Kings, Achaemenid. ------------- 
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Posted By: Penelope
Date Posted: 18-Apr-2009 at 08:33
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NÇ”'Ä›rhÄqà I, king of the Jurchens, and khan of the Jin. The founding father of the Manchu state, whom laid the foundation and groundwork for the conquest of china by the Qing dynasty. After a flawless military career, he was finally defeated at the battle of ningyuan, where he was wounded by a portuguese cannon. Unable to recover he died 2 days later at the age of 68. ------------- The direct use of force is such a poor solution to any problem, it is generally employed only by small children and large nations. |
Posted By: Knights
Date Posted: 18-Apr-2009 at 08:50
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Posted By: Brainstorm
Date Posted: 18-May-2009 at 13:09
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Perdikkas III. 368-359 BC king of Macedon. He was killed along with 4.000 more Macedonians in a battle in Upper Macedonia ,against Bardyllis and his Illyrians. Philip II succeeded him,revenged ...then it was Alexander's time and the rest are History.. :) |