Funnny historical events.

[Copperhaired Berserker!]

Nuff' said

[discovery1]

Well, Ben Franklin would go down to the pub after the meetings of the constitutional convention and get plastered. He would then go on about what happened earlier that day(remeber the constitutional convention was being held in secret). It was solved by having some guys buy him a few more so he passed out.

Well, I thought it was funny.

[Kagemusha]

William The Conqueror,the man who Conquered England 1066 AD with his Norman knights.This great warlord died when he fell from his horse.

[Gregoshi]

William The Conqueror,the man who Conquered England 1066 AD with his Norman knights.This great warlord died when he fell from his horse.

I guess you could say he had an off knight.

[Evil_Maniac From Mars]

I guess you could say he had an off knight.

The King of Bad Jokes strikes again...using Gregoshi as his puppet! NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

[swirly_the_toilet_fish]

When the Poles resisted the Nazis using actual (horse) cavalry against the blitzkrieg.

[discovery1]

I thought that the polish cavalry was also well equiped to deal with modern forces, armed with submachine guns and and tank rifles?

[swirly_the_toilet_fish]

Possible I am not certain. While it was brave, from what I (currently) know about it the cavalry was typical from pre-WWI era.

[ichi]

I guess you could say he had an off knight.

Beat me to it, I was going to say

The Fall of the King

[Ironside]

Possible I am not certain. While it was brave, from what I (currently) know about it the cavalry was typical from pre-WWI era.

Well according to the Poles here at the forum the cav was quite good vs what it was deployed against (non-motorized inf AFAIK). They were never deployed vs tanks although they met some.

More on topic.

Scipio who defeated Hannibal, died of a brick falling down form a house. Beat that it pathetic deaths.
Anyone know some famous king, general etc that died choking on food?

[Samurai Waki]

At the Battle of Gaugemala it was said that Darius shrieked like a little girl when Macedonian Cavalry charged through his line and right towards him.

[Beirut]

According to The Arms of Krupp, the British had to pay a one cent royalty to a German arms maker after WWI for every shell they fired at Germany during the war since the cannons were made in Germany before the war and it was part of the sales contract to Britain.

Business, it would seem, is business.

[lancelot]

During WW1, german goods shipping was largely insured by british banks/companies.

So while the Royal Navy was having a whale of a time sinking them, the banks were going potty!

[Copperhaired Berserker!]

King Phrryus had a real pahetic defeat.


What happened was at the battle of argos, he was struck by a pike-peasent. Phrryus wasn't hurt bad, but he was furious. He then tryed to attack the pike-peasent. Now the peasent's mum was watching from the roof of the peasents home. the mum saw Phrryus and said,"Hoi! you! leave my baby alone!" and then she chucked a tile at Phrryus. Now, either she was a olymipic-standard discus thrower, or very,very,very lucky. The tile gave Phyrrus a crack on the back of his head, just below his helmet, and broke his neck. Phrryus fell down, dead.

[The Stranger]

When the Poles resisted the Nazis using actual (horse) cavalry against the blitzkrieg.

hhehee, i knew that. polish retainers vs MP 40. let the betting begin.

[The Stranger]

King Phrryus had a real pahetic defeat.


What happened was at the battle of argos, he was struck by a pike-peasent. Phrryus wasn't hurt bad, but he was furious. He then tryed to attack the pike-peasent. Now the peasent's mum was watching from the roof of the peasents home. the mum saw Phrryus and said,"Hoi! you! leave my baby alone!" and then she chucked a tile at Phrryus. Now, either she was a olymipic-standard discus thrower, or very,very,very lucky. The tile gave Phyrrus a crack on the back of his head, just below his helmet, and broke his neck. Phrryus fell down, dead.

thought he was trampled by his eles. or did his soldiers maked that up. to make him look more heroic. cuz he you want to be a pancake rather than being killed by a woman. :handball:

[Krusader]

Maybe Uesugi Kenshins death? A ninja waited at the lavatory below the "hole" and when Kenshin sat down to do a '2', the ninja killed him by stabbing him through the butt.
This theory is a bit debated, so maybe someone who knows more about Sengoku Jidai might bring more light on the matter.

And Attila who died when got a "nose-blood incident".

[The Stranger]

yeah, i read that sumwhere on STW's database.

[Al Khalifah]

In 1939 Hitler's publisher sued Alan Cranston (an American reporter for UPI in Germany and later Senator for California) for copyright infringement, because he published an uneditted* English translation of Mein Kampf.

The Connecticut judge ruled in Hitler's favor.



* most English translations of Mein Kampf before the war had the anti-Semitic and miltaristic statements removed by the publisher.

[Flavius Clemens]

Anyone know some famous king, general etc that died choking on food?

Not necessarily choking, but Henry I of England is recorded as dieing having eaten 'a surfeit of lampreys'. http://www.quite.com/personal/cafeq/fooddeathtext1.htm
Though I have read that in those days surfeit didn't have quite the same meaning as nowadays, so gluttony isn't necessarily implied.

[Brutus]

When the Poles resisted the Nazis using actual (horse) cavalry against the blitzkrieg.

If I'm not mistaken, the Dutch actually did the same thing resisting the Germans in Groningen. Also, they got some very old cannons out of the war-museum to fight back the krauts. Didn't really work though...

[The Stranger]

well, the english homeguard were also equiped with things stolen out of museums

[Meneldil]

I don't know if this was true or just some Age of Kings myth, but the fact that Atilla was about to destroy Roma, but met the Pope and left Europe is quite funny.

William The Conqueror,the man who Conquered England 1066 AD with his Norman knights.This great warlord died when he fell from his horse.

The same could be said of some Mongol leader who was about to conquer Hungary and probably the rest of Europe, and died in the same way.

[The Stranger]

attilla was most definitly bribed away from rome. i dont know what they offered but it wasnt jesus that scared him

[clayton ballentine]

when Ben Frankli flew that kite in the t' storm and discovered the lightning is electricity

[Geoffrey S]

The creation of the Universe. To quote the Guide:
"In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move."

[swirly_the_toilet_fish]

attilla was most definitly bribed away from rome. i dont know what they offered but it wasnt jesus that scared him

He just took a ruler to his knuckles, pointed to the north and Attila went home in shame.

[The Stranger]

hhahaahaha

can i state from your sig that you're a girl???

[Craterus]

Four (I think?) Popes (confined to celibacy) died whilst having sex.

[Alrowan]

At the Battle of Gaugemala it was said that Darius shrieked like a little girl when Macedonian Cavalry charged through his line and right towards him.

dont forget When Alexanders Horse died, and he too cried like a little girl off in the middle of no-where