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Anonymous ID:obOLsLOj Wed 15 Nov 2017 05:02:32 No.2940957 View View Reply Original Report

Quoted By: >>2941002 >>2941294 >>2941346 >>2941810

Favorite people of your country's history:

>Emperor Norton, Sovereign of the United States, Protector of Mexico.

This motherfucker walked about dressed in military regalia, and decreed edicts in San Fransisco, he was a beloved celebrity by the entire populace. Once a police officer tried to arrest him for being clearly insane, after much public outrage on his behalf, Emperor Norton was released and issued the officer a pardon. He gave his own currency which was recognized as a valid money and in general was one cool motherfucker.

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Anonymous ID:hEKAjtxv Wed 15 Nov 2017 05:09:24 No.2940995 Report

Quoted By: >>2941021

sounds like a pretty cool guy. Would rather have had him as a leader than almost any of our actual leaders.

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King Nigger ID:EstUEHw2 Wed 15 Nov 2017 05:12:00 No.2941001 Report

Quoted By: >>2941021

The Lion of West-Transvaal

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Anonymous ID:/g7FZ75Y Wed 15 Nov 2017 05:12:12 No.2941002 Report

Quoted By: >>2941021

>>2940957
I think I used to use his anti virus

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Anonymous ID:obOLsLOj Wed 15 Nov 2017 05:17:08 No.2941021 Report

Quoted By: >>2941026 >>2941027

>>2940995
He tried to dissolve Congress at several points but they wouldn't listen to their Emperor. What a bunch of fags.
>>2941001
Never heard of him.
>>2941002
Norton Anti-Virus was named after Norton Utilities, entirely unrelated but still I had a modest chuckle.

King Nigger

King Nigger ID:EstUEHw2 Wed 15 Nov 2017 05:18:15 No.2941026 Report

Quoted By: >>2941071

>>2941021
he was a true gentleman a hero among men

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Koos_de_la_Rey

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Anonymous ID:hEKAjtxv Wed 15 Nov 2017 05:18:28 No.2941027 Report

Quoted By: >>2941071

>>2941021
>dissolving congress
Now this guy had the right idea
If only people had listened

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Anonymous ID:BrY81T6C Wed 15 Nov 2017 05:26:22 No.2941055 Report

Quoted By: >>2941089

gg allin

to this day i wonder why this man was rarely imprisoned

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Anonymous ID:obOLsLOj Wed 15 Nov 2017 05:30:29 No.2941071 Report

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>>2941026
>fights the British
>realizes their usual high ground tactics are shit against artillery
>uses trench warfare before WW1
>gay ass president calls him a coward
>he fucking tells him he will continue to fight long after the president has given up
>everyone else gives up
>he leads 3000 commandos to fight for Boer indepenace
>only stopped when the British gave the Boer's' a decent treaty
>eventually dies from being shot with the simple words "It hit."
Goddamn, what a man.
>>2941027
He once dispered a mob by reciting the Lord's Prayer till they realized they where being fuckheads

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Anonymous ID:obOLsLOj Wed 15 Nov 2017 05:35:30 No.2941089 Report

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>>2941055
>literally shat onstage
"I was with him when he bought the Ex-Lax. Unfortunately, he ate it hours before the show, so he constantly had to hold it in or he would've shit before he got onstage... After he shit onstage, complete chaos broke out in the hall... All of the old men in charge of the hall went fucking NUTS!.. Hundreds of confused punk kids were flipping out, running out the door, because the smell was INCREDIBLE."
This guy is metal.

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Anonymous ID:EyeohLeQ Wed 15 Nov 2017 05:55:33 No.2941155 Report

Quoted By: >>2941247 >>2941810

This glorious bastard is Leo Major.

He was born on January 21, 1921. His father wasn't exactly the best man, and Léo ended up living with his Aunt at 14. Instead of crying, whining, and letting the world feel sorry for him, he grew some heavier balls at age 15 than most men have at
40, decided to strive for greatness, and joined the army at 19 to "Prove to his Father he was somebody to be proud of". Yeah, he wasn't even fucking 20 yet.

You know what one of his first assignments in the army was? Mother fucking D-Day. Yeah. A private going to D-Day isn't uncommon, but what actually made him stand out is that he single-handedly captured a mother fucking HANOMAG (a heavy
armour vehicle) by himself. Historians assume that he simply whipped out his massive titanium ball sack, swung it at the front of the vehicle, thereby breaking the engine and shattering all the bones of everyone inside at the time.

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Anonymous ID:EyeohLeQ Wed 15 Nov 2017 05:56:01 No.2941157 Report

Quoted By: >>2941247

Now this alone is just fucking insane. A private single handedly capturing a heavy armour vehicle by himself is unheard of, but this is Léo Fucking Major. This Hanomag just happened to contain secret nazi codes that the Allies pretty much had no fucking way to decode.

Yeah.

But it gets better.

A few days after landing, he was having a nice stroll in a flower meadow until a full SS patrol came up and tried to grind him into sausage. But he killed four of these guys, the rest ran. But one managed to actually light phosphorus grenade and throw
it at him, taking out his left eye. Many men would insist on getting sent home after such a grave injury, but not this mother fucker. He refused the offer many times, and instead decided to wear a bad-ass eye patch and insisted that he "Only needs one
eye to sight down a rifle". He served as a scout and a sniper, and joked about is saying he "looked like a pirate". Yep, guy lost his fucking eye and makes jokes about it like it's nothing.

In 1944 during the Battle of the Scheldt, he was out on a reconnaissance mission and spotted two German soldiers. It was raining and freezing, so he said to himself in what we can only imagine one of the most bad ass voices "I am frozen and wet
because of you, and so you will pay". He captured the first German and used it as bait to capture the second. The second attempted to shoot Major, but instead, Major crushed this Germans skull in. He went on capturing Germans like this until
eventually he captured their Commanding Officer. Yeah. The remaining Germans surrendered. He came back to camp with 98 prisoners. A guy who has impaired vision managed to, alone, capture nearly 100 men in a single night.

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Anonymous ID:EyeohLeQ Wed 15 Nov 2017 05:56:19 No.2941158 Report

Quoted By: >>2941247

A few days after landing, he was having a nice stroll in a flower meadow until a full SS patrol came up and tried to grind him into sausage. But he killed four of these guys, the rest ran. But one managed to actually light phosphorus grenade and throw
it at him, taking out his left eye. Many men would insist on getting sent home after such a grave injury, but not this mother fucker. He refused the offer many times, and instead decided to wear a bad-ass eye patch and insisted that he "Only needs one
eye to sight down a rifle". He served as a scout and a sniper, and joked about is saying he "looked like a pirate". Yep, guy lost his fucking eye and makes jokes about it like it's nothing.

In 1944 during the Battle of the Scheldt, he was out on a reconnaissance mission and spotted two German soldiers. It was raining and freezing, so he said to himself in what we can only imagine one of the most bad ass voices "I am frozen and wet
because of you, and so you will pay". He captured the first German and used it as bait to capture the second. The second attempted to shoot Major, but instead, Major crushed this Germans skull in. He went on capturing Germans like this until
eventually he captured their Commanding Officer. Yeah. The remaining Germans surrendered. He came back to camp with 98 prisoners. A guy who has impaired vision managed to, alone, capture nearly 100 men in a single night.

Dr Vziaky !!rAnmFllmykd

Dr Vziaky !!rAnmFllmykd ID:EyeohLeQ Wed 15 Nov 2017 05:56:42 No.2941159 Report

Quoted By: >>2941247

When he came back with his prisoners, his superiors could only just imagine the man they had enlisted in their army. Without a second thought, they gave him a Distinguished Conduct Medal. One of the highest honours. But because General
Bernard Montgomery was the one who was going to give him the medal, Major instead basically told the General to go fuck himself because he thought he was an incompetent prick. Now, keep in mind this is a PRIVATE who is speaking to a GENERAL.
But instead of giving Major the boot, the army decided that they could not win the war without Major. They kept the glorious bastard.

In 1945, Major was helping load corpses out of a destroyed Tiger tank into the back of a carrier. After he was done, the driver hopped into the front, and Major hopped into the back. But this seemingly normal day of moving corpses had to have been
too good to be true, because this is Leo Fucking Major! The Bren Carrier struck a land mine, and he was sent flying into the air. He landed hard on his back and lost consciousness. Eventually, two medical officers were at the scene and tried to help
him. When he awoke, he simply payed no attention to himself and asked if the driver was okay. They didn't answer his question, but instead loaded him into a truck and drove him to a field hospital 50 km away. When he arrived, the doctors told him
that he had broken his back in three places, four ribs, and both of his ankles.

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Dr Vziaky !!rAnmFllmykd ID:EyeohLeQ Wed 15 Nov 2017 05:56:59 No.2941160 Report

Quoted By: >>2941247

His officers told him that he had done his duty, and that the war was over for him. After a week of waiting, Major took the chance to flee. He managed to get a ride to the Dutch town of Nijmegen, a town where he had previously met a family and had
made friends with. He stayed with that family for a little more than a month, and then went back to his unit. Private Major (yes, he was still a fucking PRIVATE WHILE DOING ALL THIS SHIT) was Abesent Without Authority, and would typically have
been punished. But he was simply too fucking badass for anyone to even dare to. After a few months, he went back to his unit.

After a while of waiting, the Régiment de la Chaudière was approaching the Dutch city of Zwolle, which was controlled by the Germans, and had strong presence. During a scouting mission with his best friend, William Arsenault, the pair decided that
they would attempt to capture the town alone. Yep, two fucking guys against a town of Nazis. Arsenault unfortunately gave away the pairs position during a conflict with a German, and ended up getting shot and killed. What followed was what people
consider to be one of the most rage-filled, tactically genius massacres by a single man in recorded history.

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Dr Vziaky !!rAnmFllmykd ID:EyeohLeQ Wed 15 Nov 2017 05:57:51 No.2941167 Report

Quoted By: >>2941247

He went into the town and shot a bunch of soldiers riding in a Staff Car. He then took one of them as prisoner and led him to a bar where an officer was having a drink. Major disarmed him, and told them that the entire Canadian army was
approaching on their position. This was enough to shock the officer into wanting to warn all his soldiers to retreat. As a sign of good faith, Major gave the officer his gun back. Yeah, you don't see many people doing that with enemies.

After he had let the officer warn everyone, he marched in there and started shooting everyone in uniform. He threw grenades, shot machine guns, crumbled buildings to the ground, and made the Germans actually believe that the entire fucking Canadian army had arrived.

A single man, with his cunning tactics, badassery, and pure brutalness, liberated an entire town of Nazi occupation. And he was partially disabled, with the missing eye and broken bones.

Not only did Major actually survive the war, he actually went on to fight Communists in the Korean War.

If you didn't love him because he was a complete badass, you'll love him for his hatred of Communists.

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Dr Vziaky !!rAnmFllmykd ID:EyeohLeQ Wed 15 Nov 2017 05:58:23 No.2941169 Report

Quoted By: >>2941247

When the war in Korea broke out, the Canadian government decided to raise a force to join the United Nations in repelling the communist invasion. Major was called back and ended up in the Scout and Sniper Platoon of 2nd Battalion Royal 22nd
Regiment of the 25th Canadian Infantry Brigade,1st Commonwealth Division. Major fought in the First Battle of Maryang San where he received a bar to his Distinguished Conduct Medal for capturing and holding a key hill in November 1951. Hill 355,
nicknamed Little Gibraltar, was a strategic feature, commanding the terrain for twenty miles around, so the communists were determined to take it before the truce talks came to an agreement which would lock each side into their present positions.

Hill 355 was held by the 3rd US Infantry Division, who linked up with the Canadian's Royal 22nd Regiment on the Americans' western flank. On November 22 the 64th Chinese Army (around 40,000 men) lowered a decisive artillery barrage. Over the
course of two days, the Americans were pushed back from Hill 355 by elements of the Chinese 190th and 191st Divisions.

The 3rd US Infantry Division tried to recapture the hill, but without any success, and the Chinese had moved to the nearby Hill 227, practically surrounding the Canadian forces. To relieve pressure, Lieutenant Colonel J.A. Dextraze, commanding
officer of the 2nd Battalion Royal 22nd Regiment, brought up an elite scout and sniper team led by Léo Major. armed with Stenguns, Major and his 18 men silently crept up Hill 355. At a signal, Major's men opened fire, panicking the Chinese who
were trying to understand why the firing was coming from the center of their troops instead of from the outside. By 12:45 am, they had retaken the hill.

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Dr Vziaky !!rAnmFllmykd ID:EyeohLeQ Wed 15 Nov 2017 05:58:40 No.2941171 Report

Quoted By: >>2941239 >>2941247

However, an hour later, two Chinese divisions (the 190th and the 191st, totaling around 14,000 men) counter-attacked. Major was ordered to retreat, but refused and found scant cover for his men. He held the enemy off throughout the night, though
they were so close to him that Major's own mortar bombs were practically falling on him. The commander of the mortar platoon, Captain Charly Forbes, later wrote that Major was "an audacious man, not satisfied with the proximity of my barrage and
asks to bring it closer. In effect my barrage falls so close that I hear my bombs explode when he speaks to me on the radio."

This French-Canadian, badass, Nazi killing, Communist hunting, tactically genius, disabled pirate managed to do all that shit and live to tell the tale.

He spoke about the war in the middle east, and said "When I fought, I fought against imperialism and fought to preserve the peace of the people. This war is not a just war, as this is simply an invasion of a resource rich country."

Not only was he a good man, he was intelligent.

He went on and had four kids with his loving wife, until his death in 2008.

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Anonymous ID:obOLsLOj Wed 15 Nov 2017 06:17:20 No.2941239 Report

Quoted By: >>2941254

>>2941171
Why, don't we ever know about people like him?

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Anonymous ID:Urin/2+C Wed 15 Nov 2017 06:18:55 No.2941247 Report

Quoted By: >>2941277

>>2941155
>>2941157
>>2941158
>>2941159
>>2941160
>>2941167
>>2941169
>>2941171
Good to know that you canucks have your very own Audie Murphy

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Dr Vziaky !!OY5DrVziaky ID:EyeohLeQ Wed 15 Nov 2017 06:20:44 No.2941254 Report

Quoted By: >>2941276

>>2941239
People are not taught about individual people in history, unless they are very high ranking military, or had massive social influence. Also, it depends on your geography (american would not learn about Sun Tzu).

The education system for history tends to simply go over events, and not people.

People need to learn history by themselves, and teach themselves about heroes. The events are only half of what has happened, and if no one can put a name, face, and story to a soldier in a war, then they only see numbers, not people.

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Anonymous ID:obOLsLOj Wed 15 Nov 2017 06:26:02 No.2941276 Report

Quoted By: >>2941284

>>2941254
Yeah, we really should go over more anecdotal characters because it humanizes everything. It makes the past feel real.

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Dr Vziaky !!OY5DrVziaky ID:EyeohLeQ Wed 15 Nov 2017 06:26:05 No.2941277 Report

Quoted By: >>2941286

>>2941247
Every country has their own "Audie Murphy". However, to simply say that another country has their own "Audie Murphy" is simply wrong. Each country has different cultural, historical, militaristic, and societal differences.

Amazing people can perform different feats, that can seem greater than Audie Murphy, or not. For example, Simo Hayha would be seen as the embodiment of the national spirit of Finland, and would give Hayha greater appreciation than Murphy.

I think it would be better to not compare these amazing soldiers, and instead of having to rank them against eachother, we can simply refer to them as Heroes. True heroes who served in the line of duty, and were willing to give everything they had in order to protect their home. We can all appreciate heroes.

(PS, I agree with you that Audie Murphy was an absolutely amazing man, who overcame great diffuculties, during the war and after.)

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Dr Vziaky !!OY5DrVziaky ID:EyeohLeQ Wed 15 Nov 2017 06:27:23 No.2941284 Report

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>>2941276
http://www.badassoftheweek.com/list.html
A guy made a website dedicated to badasses.

He uses a mix of humor, swears, and sources in order to make history interesting, and much more human.

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Anonymous ID:Urin/2+C Wed 15 Nov 2017 06:28:09 No.2941286 Report

Quoted By: >>2941288

>>2941277
Oh, I know, I'm simply comparing other country's war heroes with one of america's own

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Dr Vziaky !!OY5DrVziaky ID:EyeohLeQ Wed 15 Nov 2017 06:28:38 No.2941288 Report

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>>2941286
Right.

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Alec The Antithot shock trooper ID:rsdPA2K5 Wed 15 Nov 2017 06:30:55 No.2941294 Report

Quoted By: >>2941304

>>2940957
Pics or it didn’t happen

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Anonymous ID:obOLsLOj Wed 15 Nov 2017 06:35:38 No.2941304 Report

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Anonymous ID:bHvLJOE6 Wed 15 Nov 2017 06:49:10 No.2941346 Report

Quoted By: >>2941349

>>2940957
Timothy Dexter. Born as a farmhand in the mid 18th century, the only person who didn't think he was a fool was his wife, a wealthy widow that allowed him to make business decisions with her money, his first being to purchase Continental Dollars in anticipation of the US Revolution being successful, a daring move which payed off and allowed him to start a shipping company. Now, Dexter got as far as he did through dumb luck and knew fuck all about economics, but somehow his derping and the aid of his subordinates kept his business afloat the whole time. His trade missions included:
>Shipping warming pans and mittens to the West indies, the former sold as ladles and the latter to Portuguese merchants on their way to China respectively.
>Shipping coal to Newcastle (major coal producer), which just so happened to coincide with a strike so people bought it anyway.
>Shipping stray cats to the Caribbean
>Hoarded whalebone and later resold them as corset support material for a profit
He later wised up and started to make educated business decisions like putting stock on important toll bridges, but he became the entrepreneur he was by winging it and did things that would 90% had made anyone else bankrupt.

A true American hero.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:obOLsLOj Wed 15 Nov 2017 06:50:28 No.2941349 Report

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>>2941346
Huh, so there was a story behind the meme. Thanks.

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Anonymous ID:obOLsLOj Wed 15 Nov 2017 09:20:23 No.2941796 Report

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Bump

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Anonymous ID:tU43AzLF Wed 15 Nov 2017 09:24:08 No.2941810 Report

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>>2941155
based
>>2940957
cool dude

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Anonymous ID:bHvLJOE6 Wed 15 Nov 2017 13:50:34 No.2943810 Report

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Bump?

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Anonymous ID:/qNr/SYU Wed 15 Nov 2017 14:25:40 No.2944004 Report

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Mine's Edward carter

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_A._Carter_Jr.

He's our alpo k. Marttinen
https://fi.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alpo_Marttinen

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Anonymous ID:oil6CXbj Wed 15 Nov 2017 16:17:48 No.2944719 Report

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Neat thread.

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Anonymous ID:bHvLJOE6 Wed 15 Nov 2017 18:30:20 No.2946803 Report

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Come on, anyone else?

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