Who has the sadest story of history

Without a fucking doubt.

The proletariat.

>feeling sorry for a 20th century absolute monarch

Fakhri Pasha or Fahreddin Pasha (1868 – 22 November 1948), known as Ömer Fahrettin Türkkan after the Surname Law of 1934, was the commander of the Ottoman army and governor of Medina from 1916 to 1919. He was nicknamed "The Lion of the Desert" and "The Tiger of the Desert" by the British for his patriotism in Medina.

He was born in Rusçuk (present day: Ruse) to mother Fatma Adile Hanım and father Mehmed Nahid Bey. He had a younger sister Fehime Hanım. Due to the Russo-Turkish War his family moved to Constantinople in 1878. He joined the War Academy and in 1888 graduated from it. His first posting was on the eastern border with Armenia in the Fourth Army. In 1908 he came to Constantinople and joined the First Regular Army. In 1911–12 he was sent to Libya and when the Balkan War broke out, he was the commander of the 31st Division stationed at Gallipoli. His unit snatched Adrianople (present day: Edirne) from Bulgaria and he entered into the city along with Enver Pasha.

During World War I, Fahreddin Pasha upon the orders of Djemal Pasha on 23 May 1916 moved toward Medina in Hejaz to defend it and he was appointed the commander of the Hejaz Expeditionary Force on 17 July 1916.

Fahreddin Pasha was besieged by the Arab forces who betrayed the Ottoman Sultan and sided with the British against him but pasha stood ground and tenaciously defended the holy city. Fahreddin Pasha not only had to defend Medina but also protect the single-track narrow gauge Hejaz Railway from sabotage attacks by T. E. Lawrence and his Arab forces, on which his entire logistics depended. Turkish garrisons of the isolated small train stations withstood the continuous night attacks and secured the tracks against increasing number of sabotages (around 130 major attacks in 1917 and hundreds in 1918 including exploding more than 300 bombs on April 30, 1918).

The rest of story is even sadder.
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fakhri_Pasha

With the resignation of the Ottoman Empire from the war with the Armistice of Mudros between Ottoman Empire and Entente on 30 October 1918, it was expected that Fahreddin would also surrender. But he refused to do so and simply refused to accept the armistice.

According to eye-witness memoirs of Turkish author Feridun Kandemir, who was a Red Crescent volunteer of that time in Medina, one Friday in the spring of 1918, after prayers in Masjid al-Nabawi (also known as the Prophet's Mosque), Pasha addressed the troops:[8]

"Soldiers! I appeal to you in the name of the Prophet, my witness. I command you to defend him and his city to the last cartridge and the last breath, irrespective of the strength of the enemy. May Allah help us, and may the prayers of Muhammad be with us.

"Officers of the heroic Turkish army! O little Muhammads, come forward and promise me, before our Lord and the Prophet, to honor your faith with the supreme sacrifice of your lives."'

Fahreddin Pasha had said that he had a vision in a dream that the prophet Muhammad had ordered him not to submit. In August 1918, he received a call to surrender from Sharif Husain of Mecca. Fahreddin Pasha replied him in these words;

"Fakhr-ud-Din, General, Defender of the Most Sacred City of Medina. Servant of the Prophet.

"In the name of Allah, the Omnipotent. To him who broke the power of Islam, caused bloodshed among Muslims, jeopardized the caliphate of the Commander of the Faithful, and exposed it to the domination of the British.

"On Thursday night the fourteenth of Dhu'l-Hijja, I was walking, tired and worn out, thinking of the protection and defense of Medina, when I found myself among unknown men working in a small square. Then I saw standing before me a man with a sublime countenance. He was the Prophet, may Allah's blessing be upon him! His left arm rested on his hip under his robe, and he said to me in a protective manner, 'Follow me.' I followed him two or three paces and woke up. I immediately proceeded to his sacred mosque and prostrated myself in prayer and thanks [near his tomb].

"I am now under the protection of the Prophet, my Supreme Commander. I am busying myself with strengthening the defenses, building roads and squares in Medina. Trouble me not with useless offers."

He refused to hand over his sword even upon the receipt of a direct order from the Ottoman minister of war. The Ottoman government was upset upon his behavior and the Sultan Mehmed VI dismissed him from his post. He refused to do so and kept the flag of Ottoman Sultan high in Medina until 72 days after the end of the war. After the Armistice of Moudros the closest Ottoman unit was 1300 km (808 miles) away from Medina.

Fahreddin was arrested by his own men and brought to Abdullah on 9 January 1919 at Bir Darwish. Abdullah entered Medina shortly after the surrender, followed by Ali who entered the city on 2 February 1919.

I'm vaguely familiar with the story of the mad queen of Portugal. Henry viii is quite the tragic tale as well. Slow regression into madness must be tough

Byzantium.

It's like watching your grandfather waste away to nothing for years until he dies, ignoble and sputtering

He was a disastrous ruler.

>He was born in Rusçuk
HAHAHA, dirty pomak.

>1000 years of ERE history is just one long decline
I want this meme to die, Gibbon.

The worse meme is that ERE was not Roman.

A glorious rise to power, but ruined by a lust for power and overconfidence. He once controlled almost all of Europe, and lived out his final days banished to a god-forsaken island in the middle of the Atlantic.

This, he was a great in all what he made, but he can't be in all the place at the same time
>Go to Russia, Spain Rise
>Go yo Spain, Russia attack Poland

He was constantly under attack from all sides. It was impossible for anyone to succeed in his position. But it's also unbelievably remarkable that he was able to return from his first exile and reclaim his throne. Any lesser man would have accepted defeat.

All he wanted to do was help the common man.

those dubs do confirm it is so

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>Rusçuk
>Pomak
Typical Armenian leftover comment. Rusçuk was mostly inhabited by Kipchaks.

He was a massive dumbfuck.

Explain yourself. drop a picture without explain is so autistic

>He doesn't know who Anastasia is
you're on a history board

>be Polish soldier
>lose pretty fast
>join insurgency
>eventually the Russians drop by and ask if you want to be hooked up with their shit
>sure
>after several weeks and many, many executions go back to the insurgency
>WW2 ends
>still fighting
>insurgency crushed
>still fighting
>Stalinism goes out of fashion
>still fighting
>you're the last motherfucker fighting
>everyone else is dead
>you have been living in the woods for 24 out of 45 years
>get surrounded
>cops want you to surrender
>motherfucker I don't even remember what peace is like
>die in a gunfight in the 60s
Jozef Franczak is what happens when you roll up a Paladin and ask the DM if he can worship a country instead of a diety.

Fucking red traitors.

Well he surely was enjoying himself here

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Heroic and all but i could giver less of a shit over some stupid turk refusing to surrender

>mfw right wingers idealize an incompetent coward that made his country the laughing stock of the world and led to millions of deaths just because he was executed by commies

it could've been so different

I TRIED SO HARD
AND GOT SO FAR

After an autopsy, Franczak's body (without its head), was returned to his family

Was there a reason for this or was it just a "fuck you"?

>a man born into unbelievable luxury which he laps up for decades while his people starve, before being murdered

Oh yes, that's much more sad than say, the life of any one of the millions of child prostitutes that have existed throughout history, selling themselves to feed their family, ultimately to end their short lives beaten to a pulp by their clients.

>that quote
Edgiest thing I've read all day

>Oh yes, that's much more sad than say, the life of any one of the millions of child prostitutes that have existed throughout history, selling themselves to feed their family, ultimately to end their short lives beaten to a pulp by their clients.
go away moralfag
this thread is about sentimentality, not your utilitarian crap

What a world it could have been.

A world ruled by a bunch of tribal barbarian horse-lords? Yeah, that sure sounds great.

There is nothing tragic about Nicky. If anything, his life was a comedy of errors. Guys screwed over all of innocent people in most hilatious ways possible.
> Throw a party for plebs at his coronation
> hundreds end up dead
> People march on streets to glorify your name
> thousands end up dead
> Start a war game with your brother
> billions ends up dead
> fuck this shit, I don't want to be Tzar anymore
> family ends up dead

At age 25, Blanche Monnier had set her heart on marrying a lawyer who was not to her mother's liking. Her disapproving mother locked her in a tiny room, where she was kept had and not seen sunlight for 25 years.

How is that utilitarian? You are honestly saying that living in paradise you entire existence except for a few months at the end, is sadder than being raped and having the shut kicked out of you every day of your life

can some1 give me a greentext story on him?

Basically, the dude was not a great leader and had a bad reputation. He was terrible when, for example, he was going to the front to meet soldiers. He had no idea what to say or how to carry himself. He had a son who was a hemophiliac, which caused him and his wife a lot of distress and meant that his son would never be a good tsar. His four other children were female. Later, rumors spread that his wife was fucking a crazy monk/healer called Rasputin. You can imagine that that didn't do his reputation any good.

Later, the Russian revolution happened. Most government troops turned on him. He tried to flee to his relatives in England who at first granted him asylum but later revoked it for fear of it sparking revolution. He then got captured by revolutionaries, his entire family put on military rations and dragged around from place to place. He and his family got executed. He was the first to from several bullets to the chest. His son, wife, and servants also died from the first hail of bullets. His daughters were bayoneted and then shot through the head at close range afterwards.

Not greentext but who cares.

>father making reforms so it looks like Russia will become a constitutional monarchy like brittania
>father assassinated by reformers who thought he wasn't going fast enough
>comes to power
>at his coronation people are so eager to see him they stampede and kill themselves
>things are alright
>Japan attack port Arthur, a vital Chinese port that didn't freeze in winter like all other Russian ports
>so begins the 1904 Russo-Japanese war
>Japan easily wins the war due to Russia taking forever to send reinforcements and no quick route for ships to take
>harsh winter and bad harvest happens
>peasants go to winter palace to ask for Tsar to relieve them
>tsar is away on holiday
>Cossacks and other troops have been told to put down any rebellions before they flare up
>so they attack
>everyone who was slightly against Tsar are now fully against them, liberals, communists, socialists, ethnic minorities

>enter Sergei Witte, who creates the Duma, a bicameral parliament, puts down most rebellions, also makes peace in the Russo-Japanese war
>enter Stoylpin, hangs any remaining revolutionaries and tries to reform peasantry
>Only aristocracy can vote for the Duma now, no longer weighted vote
>all good
>friends with both Wilhelm 2nd and George, which is contentious during the dreadnought race
>tells Bulgarian tsar not to interfere in Balkan war
>he does
>alliance with Bulgaria ended but closer ties with other free Slavic countries as he beleives in Pan-Slavism, and sees himself as saviour of the Slavic race
>Serbia assassinates Ferdinand
>Franz Joseph declares war on Serbia
>Russia declares war to protect little Serbia
>Germany is threatened by this and even though Nicky begs Willy, willy declares war on Russia and France, as his ministers say Russia is modernising too fast and will declare war on Germany tomorrow
>top brass fucks up so he puts himself in charge
>further urbanisation due to war demands, peasants become socialists over night
>friendlessness with Rasputin alienates aristocracy
>Brusilov offensive badly supplied by tsar according to brusilov
>no one likes him a one abdicates
>cousin also abdicates and they high tail it
>try to flee but get caught by communists
>George offered asylum but parliament refused and said it would cause revolution
>white army is about to save him so communists kill him, robbing the white army of a unifying leader

You forgot
>Try to take Korea from the Japs
>Become the first European empire to lose to an asian country

Define Roman.

What about ERE, Austria, Venice and all the other Baltic states

Read the filename faggot.

I wonder what went through that fat guy's head. He obviously had no idea what was going on