"The exploits of Fuck Pasha" Topic

"With the help of firearms, Europeans opened the 16th Century with conquest and the establishment of large colonial empires in the Americas and Asia. But at least one North African country also used this new technology for a daring enterprise. Before the conquest of Mexico most of the gold from which coins were minted in the Mediterranean came from the western Sudan. There, on the bend of the Niger, stretched the mighty kingdom of the Songhai. The Songhai had looted the kingdom of Mali, expulsed the Tuareg from Timbuktu, and occasionally even controlled the southern Moroccan salt mines. After a long resistance they converted to Islam around 1500, and their kings made Timbuktu a rich trading city. The caravans brought primarily salt and textiles from Morocco, and transported back in exchange slaves, gold and ivory. Morocco benefitted well in this trade. But the lucrative business declined rapidly after the Portuguese founded their first forts on the African west coast and usurped the trade for themselves. Soon the regions around these forts became famous as the Gold Coast, the Ivory Coast and the Slave Coast.

Morocco wanted to gain control of these sources of wealth for herself, but the road through the Sahara to Timbuktu was too far for an army large enough to conquer the Songhai Empire. Everything changed however with the introduction of new weapon technology, and on October 16, 1590, a small but well equipped army left Marrakech in the south. It consisted of 1,000 renegades, 1,000 Andalusians, 500 cavalry and 70 Christians from the prisons of the Sultan, all equipped with arquebuses. The Moroccans themselves provided only 1,500 lancers. The baggage train consisted of thousands of camels and horses, which carried, in addition to food and water, small cannons, 100 tons of gun powder, and lead. The vast majority of the army was therfore made up of former Christian Europeans. One could speculate that the Sultan wished to spare his own troops in this suicidal mission and therefore sent foreigners. But a Spanish eyewitness reports that the leader of the expedition demanded 200 Christians from the King, "because the Arabs wouldn't undertake military campaigns without renegades or Christians." But the Sultan only provided this small number because he regarded his Christian prisoners as too valuable to waste on a foreign campaign. There is no doubt that the Europeans experienced in handling the new arquebuses formed the elite of the Moroccan army…"

Full article here
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Interesting wargame here.

Amicalement
Armand

An interesting read, thanks for that

Seems the bleeper doesn't work for thread titles? That could be dangerous.

The name is the name mate :p

Good grief!

I don't know about you guys, but I have a new nom de guerre!

Well that is an interesting feature of the bleepometer, you learn something new every day.

Seems the bleeper doesn't work for thread titles? That could be dangerous.

It hasn't from the beginning.
I seem to recall spending a few days in the DH on account of that.

You can capitalie the naughty word too, and that evades the Bleepomatic.

I think Tango01 is playing a dangerous game. Maybe he's been hanging out with the OFM too long. That and my inner 12 year old is snickering at the title right now.

Well I learned it back in January:

TMP link

The f-bomb is rather memorable. Oh wait it's the SAME topic! It's the SAME post! Forget I mentioned it, rules don't apply here…

DEJA VUUUUUUUU WITH F….K PASHA!

Well I learned it back in January

Well how bizarre. Tango01 plagiarizing Tango01. Is that a first?

This place gets more surreal by the day… I'm pleased to say

Well, we'll all be swizzled.

I had a TMP moniker once that defied the bleep-o-matic, and the Editor started a thread to canvas opinions on whether or not my moniker ought to remain in force, or was it too offensive for TMP. It stayed, until I changed it myself out of weariness with it and finding something else to go by.

Joder Pasha. Something to learn every day, even if I (we) didn't pick up on it in January….

This was a test by Tango to see if you all were paying attention! Well done TMP! LOL

Tango01 plagiarizing Tango01. Is that a first?

Happens quite regularly. Haven't you been paying attention?

Well… in honor of the truth I forget the "Joder Pasha" and when I search the tittle with the "F… Pasha" it show that never was posted…

So, if the tittle would remain from the beginning with the original name, there were not twice threads and… we lost the fun!. (smile)

Sorry boys.

Amicalement
Armand

Expulsed?

I often resubmit threads because I think it's high time.
Try a TMP search for Wyoming Massacre. Or Yankee Pennamite wars.
I let a decent amount of time go by before reposting. Actually, the truth is that I usually forget that I posted it in the first place.
What harm is done?
Often the newer thread gets a lot more replies. And where is THE LAW that says we can only talk about it ONCE??? I searched the FAQ in vain.

Western Sudan, is that correct?

Harry Hotspurs 'Irregular Wars' -perfect for this sort of carry on -in case anyone needs reminding!!!