"Little-Known Battles That Changed The World" Topic
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| Tango01 | 15 Dec 2017 3:22 p.m. PST |
"If you're here for any reason, it's to learn about all the things they should have taught you in school. If you missed these stories in history class, we'd like to fix that, because we would be living in a completely different world without these 10 battles…"
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rvandusen  | 15 Dec 2017 4:06 p.m. PST |
The only one that I was unsure of was the battle of Emmaus, though once I read the blurb I remembered. |
| Leadjunky | 15 Dec 2017 5:47 p.m. PST |
I don't think a few of those really qualify as little-known. |
| Twilight Samurai | 15 Dec 2017 6:59 p.m. PST |
Little known battles, unless your a wargamer. Hadn't heard of Emmaus either and the size of the Wikipedia entry did not suggest world importance to me. |
| basileus66 | 15 Dec 2017 10:34 p.m. PST |
HASTINGS??? VALMY?? Little known??? The only one I didn't know about was Emaus, and, to be honest, it hardly "changed the world". Neither some of the other choices were so earth shattering as the author pretends. Blenheim didn't change the course of the war of Spanish Succession, hardly the history of the world. He could have included Otumba (July 7th, 1520) though, Outside Mexico and Spain it is not well known. However if Cortés' forces would have been annihilated by the Aztecs, the history of America, and possibly the world, would have been very different, probably. |
| Tango01 | 16 Dec 2017 10:41 a.m. PST |
Agree about Otumba!… Amicalement
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| wpilon | 31 Jan 2018 7:57 p.m. PST |
For me it's the battles of Khalkhin Gol. Freaked the Japanese out and scared them so badly they decided not to back Hitler's play which let Stalin use the troops in Siberia to reinforce the Eastern front. No Khalkhin Gol, maybe Barbarossa succeeds. And nobody in the West has ever heard of it…. |
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worries about not losing his rules stuff.