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3 strange or funny facts about your Home Country!; Made out of pure randomness.
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Hannibal was the best... his tactics are still used today with tank columns and armoured vehicles
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Nope. Vlad the Impaler was the best.
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I reckon Belisarius was better.

But Hannibal needed Cannae to prove his greatness, others did it in battles against competent generals.
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Vlad. Killed his own people to scare the shit out of his enemy andinspire vampire stories about him.
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@cephlaken, the Japanese did horrible things to many people. my family are among those, my grandfather and great uncles fought in the pacific, several of them where POWs, out of about 5, 2 came back, my granddad and one uncle. the uncle was thinner than a 5 year old boy at the age of 24 when he came back.
but that was 60 - something years ago. Japan today is different from japan then.
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Vlad the Impaler couldn't have faced up to any of the good leaders in battle, though... he ruled through fear, he didn't use it against other countries.
Time flows like a river. Which is to say, downhill. We can tell this because everything is going downhill rapidly. It would seem prudent to be somewhere else when we reach the sea.

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Dec 5 2010, 02:59 PM
He had luck on his side. Alexander, Pyrrhus, Alexander, Belisarius, Frederick the Great, Richard the Lionheart, the Black Prince, Edward I, Caesar, and their ilk were real generals.
You don't conquer all of Asia with luck.
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Sure you do. And he missed out Russia and Japan.
Time flows like a river. Which is to say, downhill. We can tell this because everything is going downhill rapidly. It would seem prudent to be somewhere else when we reach the sea.

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Dec 5 2010, 03:06 PM
Vlad the Impaler couldn't have faced up to any of the good leaders in battle, though... he ruled through fear, he didn't use it against other countries.
Oh yes he did. When the Ottomans sent their second army to conquer him, they fled in fear after seeing the heads of every member of the first army on stakes at the border.
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Hmm yes but i think the Punic wars were absolutely fascinating the two mediterranean superpowers duking it out over mainly Sicily
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Paraksy- Weak ottoman leaders then.
Edited by Holben, Dec 5 2010, 03:14 PM.
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There are no such things as "Europe" or "Asia" damnit! THOSE ARE FAIRY TALES.
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Sun Tzu perfected ancient warfare. He might not be an amazing general, but he was the best in the world at that time.

And Hannibal is overrated. Sure he conquered part of Rome but Roman generals figured him out. Scipio Africanus was a much better general.
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Dec 5 2010, 03:12 PM
There are no such things as "Europe" or "Asia" damnit! THOSE ARE FAIRY TALES.
Geologically, no. But culture also plays a role in the division of continents. Otherwise there would be only America and Eurasiafrica.
We should all aspire to die surrounded by our dearest friends. Just like Julius Caesar.

"The Lord Universe said: 'The same fate I have given to all things from stones to stars, that one day they shall become naught but memories aloft upon the winds of time. From dust all was born, and to dust all shall return.' He then looked upon His greatest creation, life, and pitied them, for unlike stars and stones they would soon learn of this fate and despair in the futility of their own existence. And so the Lord Universe decided to give life two gifts to save them from this despair. The first of these gifts was the soul, that life might more readily accept their fate, and the second was fear, that they might in time learn to avoid it altogether." - Excerpt from a Chanagwan creation myth, Legends and Folklore of the Planet Ghar, collected and published by Yieju Bai'an, explorer from the Celestial Commonwealth of Qonming

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Sun Tzu perfected ancient warfare. He might not be an amazing general, but he was the best in the world at that time.

And Hannibal is overrated. Sure he conquered part of Rome but Roman generals figured him out. Scipio Africanus was a much better general.
Best in the world at the time maybe, but not anything exceptional in the bigger picture.

And Hannibal managed to keepa raid going for years before defeating one of Rome's greatest generals and was defeated by logistics after the longest time i know of for a general save Alexander.
Time flows like a river. Which is to say, downhill. We can tell this because everything is going downhill rapidly. It would seem prudent to be somewhere else when we reach the sea.

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