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>Spaniards, Japanese Ronin and Filipinos defeat a Chinese army
More weird battles/wars like this
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The boxer rebellion is an obvious one
Humanity before this had battles, but they were infantry and archer skirmishes. Maybe some light cavalry thrown in there for flavor... but the Battle of Qadesh (and the entire war between Egypt and the Hittites) was one with major firsts. First major chariot involvement in human history. The charge must have been... devastating to both sides. Thousands of chariots were constructed by both sides in an attempt to out do the other. Much different in terms of the US-Soviet Space Race... but the massive arms build up on both sides carries similarities.
The amount of soldiers that each amassed was another first. The nations were creating truly professional armies by keeping men employed solely to fight the many battles each nation fought. It also had a strangely kind peace. "Brother" and "Sister" floated around a lot in the correspondences... seems a little awkward it is so nice.
I don't recall the exact name, but there was once a three-way battle where a Frankish army goaded an Arab and Magyar raid into colliding, then swept in and attacked both right after.
Magyars were in the Danube, and the Arabs were attacking in Spain, Southern France, and Italy... you sure it was Magyars? Was it another tribe?
Battle of Castle Itter. US and Heer troops fight off a Waffen-SS attack
X-Com: 1900 edition
This one time I read bout a battle where 5 separate armies fought...goblins, orcs, elves, dwarves, AND humans
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>An entire army gets scared by ducks while their enemy was on the cusp of ambushing them
i thought the goblins and orcs where grouped into one army and the eagles were the fifth one.
Same with the Allied Intervention in Russia.
This is correct
It's a really obscure fact that no one knows about on this website, but Australia once lost a war to birds
On April 11 1941 just outside Belgrade, Klingenberg’s instructions were to reconnoiter and establish checkpoints, secure any bridges and roads encountered, then hold for reinforcements. Heavy rains and melting snow had washed away nearly all soft surfaces, and bridges had been destroyed by retreating Yugoslav forces. The main avenues of approach to Belgrade were no longer viable routes, and the tanks would be hard pressed to continue without massive engineering support to clear those areas. After several hours of observing the stricken city from across the Danube River, Klingenberg believed that Belgrade was his for the taking, due to the confusion caused by the bombardments — provided his unit arrived in time. He had only 24 hours to submit a report to his command, and a decision had to be made quickly.
Klingenberg saw a chance to probe more deeply into the city’s environs when one of his men found an abandoned motorboat tied to a tree along the banks of the swollen Danube. Taking only one sergeant and five privates, he negotiated the treacherous river. The trip was extremely dangerous, the currents raging from the runoff of melting snow in the mountains and from torrential rains. The boat was overloaded, as well. Reaching the far side of the Danube, Klingenberg sent two men back to ferry more troops over before sunset. On the return trip, however the boat struck a submerged obstacle and sank. Klingenberg’s ‘navy’ ceased to exist, leaving the captain and six of his men stranded. They were totally isolated, with limited supplies and ammunition.
The squad advanced along the road and encountered a few British-made vehicles manned by Yugoslav soldiers. They captured two trucks and a bus, along with some 20 enemy soldiers. One of the men on the bus was an inebriated German tourist who had been trapped in Belgrade since the invasion started. The tourist, who spoke Croatian, had been apprehended as a spy by the Yugoslav soldiers and was being taken to be executed. He was still drunk and unaware of his impending fate. When he sobered up, he thought that he was still among his group of partygoers until he was informed of the situation. Klingenberg used him as an interpreter, in which capacity the grateful German was most helpful.
The SS men continued on, using their prisoners and a few captured uniforms to get past several enemy checkpoints. They made good progress the first day without any of the enemy checkpoint guards becoming suspicious. The Germans added the Yugoslav guards to the increasing number of prisoners they were collecting along the way. The population of Belgrade, after several days of bombing, was anticipating a long siege rather than an attack, and the lax security that Klingenberg encountered played directly into his hands.
Upon entering the outskirts of the city, the Germans became involved in a two-hour running firefight. They finally drove their captured vehicles into the city with many wounded prisoners aboard, including the hapless tourist. Miraculously, none of the SS men were wounded in the fight. They ended up in the city center, all alone and surrounded by a wide-eyed, bewildered population. The only SS casualty in Belgrade thus far was a private who had fallen and sprained his wrist.The Germans were amazed to find that no one attacked them in the city. The civilians went about their daily business as if nothing had happened. Klingenberg ordered Sergeant Hans Hossfelder to raise the German colors, replacing the Yugoslavian national flag with the German ensign shortly after 5 p.m. on April 12. Under Klingenberg’s orders, his men began to strut about the city on patrol, giving the inhabitants the unmistakable impression that they were in charge.
The mayor of Belgrade came up to the Germans, complete with his entourage of city officials and in proper ceremonial dress. After asking what was going on, he inquired about the terms of surrender. Klingenberg told the mayor that his was the point team of several SS tank divisions, and if he did not check in with his unit by radio with the information requested, the Luftwaffe would continue their attempts to level the city. He also said that the air attacks would be followed by an artillery barrage and armored and infantry attacks that would spare no one.
Magyars I'm sure. It was when they were raiding all over Europe.
The other Germans looked at their leader as if he was mad. Their radio was damaged and could not transmit, only receive; their unit was a considerable distance away; and they were out of ammunition and food. Sergeant Hossfelder later told his captain that he was in the wrong business, adding that the Propaganda Ministry could surely find a use for him.
The mayor fell for the ruse, and after an hour-long conversation with Klingenberg, he began the necessary arrangements for the surrender of the city. Then, as if on cue, a group of German aircraft flew over the city on a reconnaissance mission, and Klingenberg took advantage of the moment. He looked up, pointing to the sky, and reminded the mayor that the clock was ticking. Klingenberg gave his word that if all instructions were followed, no further harm would befall the city or its inhabitants. The city officials seemed relieved to hear that.
The soldiers and city militia agreed to lay down their arms in exchange for the Germans’ ceasing additional attacks. The Yugoslav army stacked its arms in the city square, and Klingenberg had all of the men register with the mayor. Klingenberg then ordered the prisoners to quarter themselves in four of the largest hotels and posted a German guard to each building. The handful of Germans had just captured more than 1,300 troops and a city with a population of over 200,000 without firing a single shot. The city had suffered considerable damage, but not enough to prevent the locals from continuing with life and business as usual. Yugaslav soldiers outside the city, unaware of what had happened to their capital, drove into Belgrade only to be ordered by their superiors to lay down their arms, abandon their vehicles and march to the hotels. All the Yugoslavians complied without hesitation.
Klingenberg and his men made themselves comfortable in the city’s finest hotel, making fake radio transmissions to reinforce the charade. They stockpiled bottles of wine and weapons, and two of the men disappeared with a couple of local women. Meanwhile, Klingenberg consolidated his position, knowing that things could still go wrong. If the main force did not arrive soon, the game was up. He had his men recruit locals to help procure every map, police record and tax record in the city.
The chief of police was ordered to provide a list of all criminals in the city, stating their crimes, age and other pertinent information. Women with nursing skills were to report for duty immediately, and all doctors were called in as well. Every liter of gasoline was accounted for, and oil, medical supplies and other necessities were placed in special holding facilities. The hospital was to be neutral ground, and all health care was to be maintained as a gesture of good will. Klingenberg even ordered the schools to remain open and placed no restrictions on daily business. He did, however, place an 8 p.m. curfew on the city; only citizens with a pass signed by him could legally venture outside their homes after that time.
The next day, April 13, more of Klingenberg’s men who had remained on the opposite side of the river followed their leader into the city. Seeing the German flag, they believed that the main force had somehow bypassed them. They were amazed to find the ‘lost’ men in command of the primary objective, with the locals not hostile but actually accommodating. Hossfelder told the new arrivals what had transpired and warned them to play along. They flexed their military muscle by commandeering every vehicle they could find.
Finally, on the night of April 13, the forward elements of Das Reich entered the city expecting a heavy fight. They had disregarded radio transmissions they had received telling of the city’s surrender, believing it was an enemy hoax, possibly an attempt to lure German units into an ambush. Rumor had it that Klingenberg and his men had been captured, tortured and forced to release the codes required for proper radio communications. The XLV Corps commander was so furious at not having received his intelligence summary that he had threatened to have Klingenberg court-martialed if he were found alive as a prisoner. The first place he inquired for Klingenberg was at a brothel, figuring that he would find the renegade captain there. The corps commander’s fury soon subsided when he learned why his junior company commander had been negligent in his duties.
The rest of Das Reich and supplemental Heer Panzergrenadier units entered Belgrade in force the following day, and instead of fighting their way into the city, they were greeted with wine and cheese. The Yugoslav prisoners were conscripted to reinforce the German defense in case of partisan attacks. Sadly, when the mayor realized that he had been duped, he shot himself.
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On April 17, Josip Broz, better known as Tito, the trade unionist and leader of the ‘illegal’ Communist Party, acknowledged defeat in Yugoslavia and surrendered the country in name only. He fled into the mountains with his partisans, where, supported by the British, he waged a four-year guerrilla campaign against his country’s invaders. He would later become president of a Communist Yugoslavia, which nevertheless rejected association with the Soviet-dominated Warsaw Pact.Klingenberg persuaded the garrison commander to relinquish his maps and divulge the location of his minefields and gun emplacements, as well as the nearby anti-aircraft emplacements and adjacent auxiliary airstrip. Markers were placed that could be clearly seen from the air, and German transports were able to land, bringing food, ammunition and war correspondents. Klingenberg even had some of the prisoners repair the damaged runways and confiscated several obsolete aircraft.
German Intelligence had projected before Belgrade surrendered that Yugoslav army casualties would number approximately 10,000 to 15,000 wounded and 2,000 dead after massive Luftwaffe and artillery bombardment and a subsequent fight to enter the city. Civilian casualties were predicted to be 10 times those figures. Klingenberg was concerned for the welfare of his men, yet he was also worried about the fate of the civilians. He did not see the need for further bloodshed in the city, and his men were actually treated well by the civilians, who knew that they could have suffered a much worse fate.At first, the German high command did not believe that the city had been taken. There was even word that Klingenberg would be shot for trying to fake such an exploit. Two days of radio transmissions were needed to convince Berlin that all was well. Lieutenant General Paul Hausser was ordered to inspect for himself.
When Klingenberg reported to his superiors to explain why he had not followed orders, he was drunk, unshaven and smelled of perfume. After several minutes of heavy grilling, Klingenberg snapped at the General: ‘What was I to do, give the city back?’ His indiscretions were overlooked, and the German battle plan, now obsolete, was stamped ‘completed.’ The drive into Greece was now ahead of schedule. The cost of the entire Yugoslavian campaign to Germany was 558 wounded and 151 killed, with less than a dozen aircraft lost. More than 340,000 Yugoslavs were captured. The exact number killed will never be known
Every man assigned to Klingenberg during the Belgrade operation received decorations for valor and promotions. Hossfelder was given a commission as a second lieutenant and attended the SS officers school at Bad Tölz, where he later became an instructor. Today he lives in Munich as a retired school teacher.
For his daring exploit, Klingenberg was awarded the Knight’s Cross, and he became a favorite of the SS inner circle. The ‘Old Man,’ as he came to be known, was periodically sent to Bad Tölz as an instructor on tactics and battlefield initiative. On March 15, 1944, he became the only Bad Tölz graduate to assume command of the school.
Klingenberg was not a hearty drinker or talker and never boasted of his accomplishments. When later asked by students at Bad Tölz how he had captured the capital of a country, he simply said, ‘I was not too preoccupied at the time, and found something to do.’
that's a pretty cool story, thanks user
Bravo. Good read.
The Battle of New Orleans is pretty weird/awesome. The Americans were outmanned by like 10k and they still won. The defenders were lead by Andrew Jackson himself, and he recruited people to help defend the fort. His numbers were composed of US soldiers, US civilians, militia-men, pirates, native americans, and slaves. The best part is that the treaty ending the war of 1812 had been signed a month ago and neither party knew of it, so it was a totally pointless battle.
The Pig War between the US and British Canada over the San Juan islands. No blood spilled and was arbitrated by Kaiser Wilhelm I
>Japanese military prowess was also well noted. "A Spanish royal decree of 1609 specifically directed Spanish commanders in the Pacific 'not to risk the reputation of our arms and state against Japanese soldier.'" (Giving Up the Gun, Noel Perrin). Troops of Japanese samurai were later employed in the Maluku Islands in Southeast Asia by the Dutch to fight off the English.
I wonder if they both ended up engaging for the spice islands.
No, the fifth army were the Wargs
Battle of Sarmin.
A few crusader warlords ally themselves with several Muslim warlords against the barbarian Turks, who are also Muslim;
that'd make a sick movie
Looks like they're having fun
No, this user is right
No im pretty sure the Warg dude is right. The eagles aren't technically an army since there's like 30 of them.
Chinese army?
They just mass murdered the city's Chinese quarter/Chinatown
>Hittite chariot is the same size as the Egyptian's
LOTR wiki names wargs as a seperate army from orcs, but they are listed together in count with like 100 eagles showing up.
Let's agree to disagree
Sieg fucking Heil.
>there was a war over a fucking bottle
KEK
almost any war after 1900 had a large mish mash of people from all over the world fighting each other.
>Magyar raids
>Almost the entire continent of Europe vs. Hungarian raiders on horseback
Imagine all the weird things that must have happened.
More on that note
>chinese army
It wasn't an army, it was just chinese people who lived in Manila. Fucking up Chinese communities in the asian equivalent of a pogrom.
shocking.
GODDAMN HUNGARIANS
>Chinese army.
It was a bunch of Chinese settlers in the Philippines rebelling over Spanish treatment.
>Spain lost two fucking governors to peasant rebels.
KEK
Why has no one mentioned Karansebes or Dogger bank????
>Dogger bank
>Russian fleet sailing around the world to engage the Japanese in naval combat during WW1
>reach the English channel
>on look out for "Japanese naval activity and spy ships"
>mistake british fishing ships for Japanese ships during midnight
>open fire
>shitstorm ensues
>russian ships start shooting eachother in confusion
>next morning realize they've been shooting eachother after mistaking a brit fishing trawler for a Japanese ship in the english fucking channel
>this was not the only fail of the russian baltic fleet during ww1
>battle of Karansebes
>austrians raise army of 100,000 to fight ottomans
>too lazy to finish, but shitstorm friendly fire ensued, 30,000 soldiers died, turks marched next day and found bodies of 30,000 enemies and were confused
>Russian fleet sailing around the world to engage the Japanese in naval combat during WW1
you couldn't have at least checked on wikipedia first? C'mon, mobile poster, it's the Russo-Japanese War.
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American special forces + French prisoners (including a prime minister and tennis star) + German defectors vs hardcore remnants of the Waffen SS in a prison castle in the last days of the Third Reich.
Why haven't they made a movie of this shit yet?
because it's obvious propaganda horseshit (not that why they didn't make a movie out of it, hollywood makes movies out of fake shit all the time, but fake shit is fake shit)
>calling documented historical fact propaganda with no evidence
fuck off.
>documented historical facts
fucking kek
The adventures of Blas Ruiz and Diego Veloso really needs more recognition and maybe a movie
The article is wrong,the cambodian king Satha was killed in a Siamese invasion.The spanish helped the legitimate heir to recover the throne in exchange for some future favors but he wasn't a puppet king
>tfw your race is so bad ass that 30 counts as an army.
Nigga, the Boxer Rebellion is the wackiest, most balls-to-the-wall awesome war everyone's never heard of.
My favorite episode:
>American, German, and other allied forces get pinned up in an ancient Imperial Chinese fort
>Running low on ammunition, supplies, pulling a full Helm's Deep
>American artillerist goes wandering one afternoon
>Artillerist finds ancient bronze cannon
>"Hmm, what can I do with this?"
>Rigs a cannon that is literally older than his own country to sweep the walls of the fortress. Fills it with chips of stone, shrapnel, and assorted bits and bobs of particular deadliness.
>Unearthly huge explosion
>Besieging force gets ripped to shreds.