Favorite battle or war.
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Topic: Favorite battle or war.
Posted By: Deano
Subject: Favorite battle or war.
Date Posted: 11-Oct-2007 at 23:47
Hello everyone I m new but I thought this would be fun.My favorite war and battle are Hastings and the Spanish English war.But whats yours?Yay this sounds REALLY cheesy  .------------- I AM FARTAKUS! |
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Posted By: Knights
Date Posted: 12-Oct-2007 at 06:58
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Hi Deano. I moved this topic from "Ancient Mediterranean and Europe" to "All Battles". I don't have a single favourite battle, but I love ones involving unorthodox tactics, or sheer simplistic brilliance. The Battle of Mohi, Battle of the Saw, Siege of Volohoi and others come to mind. Cannae and Agincourt have always been favourites of mine too. In terms of wars, you can't go past the Second Punic War. ------------- |
Posted By: ulrich von hutten
Date Posted: 12-Oct-2007 at 15:54
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The war that doesn't happened.... ------------- 
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Posted By: Deano
Date Posted: 13-Oct-2007 at 22:04
Sorry I diidnt know how to change it into diffrent categorys I just made it and it came here.And your right Urlich wars that dont happen are the best.  ------------- I AM FARTAKUS! |
Posted By: rider
Date Posted: 14-Oct-2007 at 19:52
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Well, if you ask for a favourite battle then it must be one where immense ingenuity has been shown to the later students... can't think of any so good ones right now. ------------- |
Posted By: Illirac
Date Posted: 15-Oct-2007 at 14:43
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The battle of Kulikovo, Stirling bridge and the battale of Lissa...Scottish war of indipendence ------------- For too long I've been parched of thirst and unable to quench it. |
Posted By: Guests
Date Posted: 15-Oct-2007 at 22:49
| Turkish War of Independence. |
Posted By: pekau
Date Posted: 17-Oct-2007 at 00:48
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None. Designing wars can be fun, but it gets gruesome when people die or get hurt. ------------- http://swagbucks.com/refer/Malachi"> 
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Posted By: deadkenny
Date Posted: 18-Oct-2007 at 15:50
| IMHO asking about 'favourite' battles or wars is perhaps a poor choice of words. Just about anyone who studies them in depth comes to appreciate how terrible they really are. Perhaps one might ask which battles or wars people are most interested in, or have studied to the greatest extent. Personally I would say WWII in that case. |
Posted By: Guests
Date Posted: 19-Oct-2007 at 13:14
Huray! go Hannibal. Too bad you didn't know how to use your victory?
I did a paper on the Second Punic War last year, and I think Hannible is possibly one of the best, with Ceaser, Alexander, and even Patton.
(Not that I put those men in any specific order!)
Yup, I rekon 2nd Punic or Battle of the Bulge. ------------- |
Posted By: Deano
Date Posted: 20-Oct-2007 at 01:04
Wich Turkish war of independence? ------------- I AM FARTAKUS! |
Posted By: gcle2003
Date Posted: 28-Jan-2008 at 15:17
I was sick when this first came up, or I would have welcomed the battle of Lissa (assuming you meant the one in 1866 fought at sea between Austria and Italy) .
I suspect it may not be terribly significant to anyone except naval historians but it is unique (I'm pretty sure) in the way in which so many different technologies and tactics ever got mixed up together in one battle - a battle closely watched by the major naval powers because it tested out so many potential new developments.
You had armoured ships and wooden ships, screw-driven and paddlewheel, purpose built rams tactically like souvenirs of Actium
 , a triple decker looking like something left over from Trafalgar (almost), rifled guns, smooth-bore guns, turretted guns, and fixed guns.... For more pictures see: http://www.uow.edu.au/~morgan/lissab.htm - http://www.uow.edu.au/~morgan/lissab.htm
For the result, check out wikipedia at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Lissa_%281866%29 - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Lissa_%281866%29 (but it says Kaiser was a two-decker and the picture shows it as a three). ------------- |
Posted By: Catalán
Date Posted: 28-Jan-2008 at 16:41
| Second World War and Spanish Civil War, for me. |
Posted By: Darius of Parsa
Date Posted: 30-Jan-2008 at 00:53
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Favourite "wars" -
Cyrus' invasions against Media, Lydia, and the Neo-Babylonian Empire. Cambyses' invasion of the last old superpower - Egypt. The Greco-Persian wars. Alexander's campaigns. The crusades.
Favourite "battles"-
Battle of Pteria. Battle of Thymbra, Battle at Opis, Marathon, Thermopylae, Battle of Artemisium, Battle of Salamis, Battle of Platea, Battle of Lade, Mycale, Battle of Eurymedon River, Cunaxa, Granicus, Issus, Guagamela, Hattin
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Posted By: Constantine XI
Date Posted: 30-Jan-2008 at 01:20
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Although Cannae is a masterpiece, I have always had a soft spot for the sheer cunning of Hannibal at Lake Trasimene. ------------- |
Posted By: Brian J Checco
Date Posted: 30-Jan-2008 at 02:52
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I've always found WWI fascinating, if only just because of the literature that it inspired (both directly about it, and the writers who participated in it and were influenced deeply by it). Many of the members of the Lost Generation American expatriate writers in Paris in the 1920's were war vets; among them F. Scott Fitzgerald, John Dos Passos, and most famously, Ernest Hemingway. Good (fictional) books about WWI: A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque Three Soldiers by John Dos Passos Lots of good poetry came out of the war as well, as exemplified by the works of Wilfred Owen and Siegfried Sassoon, amongst many others. Rupert Brooke, V. The Soldier
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Posted By: gcle2003
Date Posted: 30-Jan-2008 at 11:25
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What adds irony is the fact that Brooke died on his way to take part in the Gallipoli campaign. His 'corner of a foreign field' therefore is in Skyros, Greece.
You may be interested in the website of the War Poets Association at http://www.warpoets.org/ - http://www.warpoets.org/
I was lucky enough to be invited to the launch of the Association in 2004. ------------- |
Posted By: Brian J Checco
Date Posted: 30-Jan-2008 at 15:33
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Quite right. Anther irony is that Brooke's war poems were of an optimistic nature, while the later poetic works of Wilfred Owen and Siegfried Sassoon are much darker and more in line with the later historical view of the War. Owen's Anthem for Doomed Youth might be one of the world's "darkest" war poems, if it weren't overshadowed by Sassoon's S.I.W. (Self Inflicted Wounds) I've actually visited that website, gcle2003, when I was taking a seminar on Georgian-era British poetry. |