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In April 1756, nineteen year old Siraj-ud-daulah succeeded as Nawab of Bengal. His personality was said to be a combination of a ferocious temper and a feeble understanding. He was particularly suspicious of the large profits made by the European companies in India. When the British and the French started improving their fortifications in anticipation of another war between them, he immediately ordered them to stop such activities as they had been done without permission. When the British refused to cease their construction, the Nawab led a detachment of 3,000 men to surround the fort and factory of Cossimbazar and took several British officials as prisoners, before moving on Calcutta. The defenses of Calcutta were negligible. The garrison consisted of only 500 men against the Nawab’s force of nearly 50,000. The city was occupied on June 16 by Siraj’s force and the fort surrendered after a brief siege on June 20.

The prisoners were transferred by Siraj to the care of the officers of his guard, who confined them to the common dungeon of Fort William known as The Black Hole. This dungeon, 18 by 14 feet in size with two small windows, had 146 prisoners thrust into it – originally employed by the British to hold only six prisoners. On June 21, the doors of the dungeon were opened and only 23 of the 146 walked out, the rest died of asphyxiation, heat exhaustion and delirium.

Why'd they have to make this fucker so hard to kill in DW?

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_von_Lettow-Vorbeck#

Paul Von Lettow-Vorbeck was a German general in their east african colony. When World War I broke out, he realized that he could never fight a conventional war against his British adversaries, who were much more numerous, and had better supply chains. So, he decided to launch the greatest guerilla campaign of all time. With a force of only 4,000 troops at the start, against the orders of the colonial governor, he seized the initiative and attacked several vital british targets, getting essential supplies in the process. Throughout the next four years, he trounced the British forces again and again, expanding his small force to 14,000 troops, all native Askaris. He was always able to keep the morale, and ranks, high because of his understanding and appreciation of native african languages and culture, and even appointed black officers. By 1917, the entire army had to push into Portuguese territory and essentially became a roving caravan of chaos, relying entirely on supplies stolen or captured from their enemies.

By 1918, his force of 14,000 troops was holding down 300,000 british troops, soldiers who otherwise would have been sent to the western front. Two days after the European armistice, he was approached under white flag by a british ambassador, and surrendered. Throughout the entire war, he remained Undefeated, perhaps the only Commander on either side of which this can be said.

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>Why'd they made the strongest warrior of his time so hard to kill

Erich Ludendorf, for one. During the opening days of WWI, he took a Belgian fort himself with his sabre. By 1917, he was practically running all of Germany. By 1918, he was having conversations with his son-in-law's corpse and having nervous breakdowns.

Sweden during the 30th year war. One of few western army that had proper war priests. Deterministic Christians who believed it was already decided if they were to be killed or not so there was no point in deserting since if it was already decided if you were to die in battle, God would find a way to kill you if you deserted. Before going to war, the King calmly explained he would die in battle and there was no way around it. Charged enemies while not being allowed to fire their guns before they could see the "white in the eyes" of their enemies.

Over the course of the war, Ludendorf evolved from a talented military officer but otherwise normal human being to the living personification of "ow the edge." After the war, he started a campaign to eliminate all Jews, Christians, and Free Masons from Germany. So basically the entire population.

After the first Punic War, Carthage had a bit of a problem. You see, they had to pay reparations to Rome for losing the war, but they also had to pay the huge number of mercenaries that they'd employed during the war. Carthage quickly realized that it did not have the means to pay the mercenaries while also making regular payments to Rome.

At first, the mercenaries were rather agreeable about this, and it seemed like it would be possible to make a compromise. The mercenaries promised that they accept a reduced payment, and Carthage promised to pay whatever was demanded so long as it was within their ability to do so.

However, one of the mercenary groups wasn't satisfied with this outcome and began plotting war against Carthage. Through bullying and intimidation, this group was able to eventually sway the other groups. However, they were still concerned that some of the mercenaries might switch sides for reduced pay.

In order to ensure that the entire mercenary force would be completely committed to war against Carthage, the leader decided that he had to do something that would escalate the situation to such an extent that it would eliminate ANY chance of a negotiated settlement.

He took a group of Carthaginians prisoner, and had them brutally tortured. The men were castrated, their hands were chopped off, their legs were broken, and finally they were thrown into pits and buried alive. He then announced that the same fate would befall any more Carthaginians who fell into his hands. This succeeded in stopping all negotiations.

Is there ANYTHING to defeat a guerilla war?With decent supplies and command it fucking triumph in every enviroments

Taking hostages, lots of them, and then using them to negotiate a surrender from the guerillas is historically pretty successful.

Napoleon is one of the few generals that the enemy sought to avoid battle with,during the war of sixth coalition they ran away from him while taking out his marshals and then when they had a considerable advantage they strike him,it took 2 days and his allies deserting him while being hugely outnumbered to take him out of the field

cut them off from their supply base,basically remove support from populace like the Brits in Malaya
train a highly mobile and veteran commando who can outfight them like the Rhodesian
Try to always make them fight in a conventional warfare,make sure your men are not getting sacrificed needlessly to take their jungle shithole

By the time Alexander finished his conquests in Asia, pretty much the entire known world was fucking terrified of the possibility that he'd pick them as his next target. Everybody starting sending him envoys with 2 missions. The first, was simply to bestow upon him gifts of goodwill, you know to improve relations and such. The second was simply to try and feel him out, to get a sense of where he'd be going next.

Carthage was a special situation while this was going on. You see, Carthage did have to worry about whether or not he was coming for them. They knew, for certain, that he was. He'd told them so, directly, in the past. In one of the cities he'd conquered, he'd found a group of Carthaginian priests. He allowed them to leave, but not before telling them that he'd be after them as soon as he was done in Asia.

So Carthage's big concern wasn't if Alexander was coming, but when. They sent a spy to figure out what his intentions were. However, as soon as the spy returned, the Carthaginians crucified him without even bothering to hear the answer, such was their paranoia that he'd been turned by Alexander.

Dats a gun questun ya git, but ya got me tinken. O's da most Orky umie en istery?

Baron Ungern von sternberg
>Be Russian
>Commies take over
>Fuck that, I hate commies
>Don't know what to do with my life
>Wake up one day, decide I will become the new Khan of Mongolia, despite there not being a khan of mongolia for a few hundred years
>Find some other russians who hate commies
>Pay them to come with me into mongolia
>Take over the entire country with private army, keep them in line by personally killing anyone dissenting, and by being the most ruthless motherfucker ever, so even these hardened criminals are disturbed
>Have fun terrorizing Mongolia for a few years in total power until fucking commies cone over and execute me and kill my horde
>Mfw