ITT: Objectively good guys in history who got bad endings

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Well since you brought it up...

yep. he was a fucking legend. no other man has come close to what he has done. i wish that limerick had something like him.

>be Lewis Armistead
>see the flags of your best friend, Winfield Scott Hancock's Corps fluttering in the wind in front of you
>get ordered to carry out a near suicidal attack on the enemy frontline
>know that not only will it very likely cost the lives of most of your men as well as your own, but that you'll be fighting the very man who took you in after your first wife died
>know that the plan is insane but if the attack succeeds, this terrible war will be over in a fortnight
>duty compels you to carry out your orders faithfully
>take part in the attack
>watch Garnett be killed and Kemper wounded
>your brigade is the only that actually reaches its objective
>pull off your hat and rally your men in one final desperate dash for the Union line
>Union troops to your surprise scatter and run for the rear
>victory and the end of the war is seemingly in sight
>order your men to turn the guns on them, but the confusion and noise makes your commands impossible to hear
>get shot three times in the chest, arm, and knee
>watch as all of the men who followed you over the wall are slaughtered to virtually the last man or surrender
>ask a Union officer where is your friend Hancock
>get told he's been mortally wounded
>hearbroken.jpg
>be captured and taken to a filthy and decrepit field hospital in the Union rear
>doctor tells you your wounds aren't actually serious
>imightactuallymakeit.jpg
>fever sets in
>die in physical and emotional agony, knowing that your failure means that this war will continue, more men will die, and that it was all for nothing. All while believing that your best friend died at your very hand
>150 years later, braindead idiots curse your name, compare you to mass-murdering Nazis, and gleefully stoke the growing rage of your descendants with total disregard for its potential consequences when you understood the pain that war and disunion would bring better than anyone

N I C E

The Chad of XI Century

He wanted no power
He wanted no gold
He just wanted a hug from Catherine

Also helped set up most of the powerful trade unions in the States.

fuck the frogs

t. Ruberbandits

I just found out about this guy.

Would make for Confederate Kino.

Except Richard Jordan died over 20 years ago and I can't see another actor in that role does as wonderful of a job as he did.

He started no war, killed nobody, reduced child mortality and incremented the country's iq.

Not his fault socialism was incompatible with the interest of international capitals.

I should see this movie.

inherited presidency by accident and told virtually everyone who protested to shut the fuck up because that was the law. literally the best administrator the country ever saw, pushed education spending to the highest we had since the early 20th century.

Got removed by the military for meme reasons and completely forgotten. Never stole a dime and ended up selling pastries

>"good" is objective

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Socialism doesn't work and he wanted to introduce a police state. Good riddance.

I always admired that he conducted his own legal defense.

It's not fair!

A good commie is a dead commie

>he wanted to introduce a police state
*revisionism intensifies*

Perdiccas: General of Alexander the Great
>Serve Alexander faithfully as second in command
>Alexander dies
>Become regent and act as protector of Alexander's unborn son and pregnant wife, decreeing the empire should be given to Alexander IV
>Other commander disagrees, starts revolt to give the throne to Alexander's retarded half brother
>Shuttle Roxana and Alexander IV away, fight rivals
>Prepare to take Alexander's body to Macedon, have it stolen by Ptolemy
>Murdered by his own troops (particularly Seleucus, who was bribed by Ptolemy to do so)

Ptolemy was a fucking dickhead

The only thing he did towards a police state was naming Pinochet who eventually created a police state.

He really was exceptional.

"I have fulfilled the sacred promises which I made Peru; I have witnessed the assembly of its representatives; the enemy's force threatens the independence of no place that wishes to be free, and that possesses the means of being so. A numerous army, under the direction of warlike chiefs, is ready to march in a few days to put an end to the war. Nothing is left for me to do, but to offer you my sincerest thanks, and to promise, that if the liberties of the Peruvians shall ever be attacked, I shall claim the honor of accompanying them to defend their freedom like a citizen." -- Resignation address to the Peruvian Congress, (22 September 1820), as quoted in ''Captain of the Andes : The Life of José de San Martín, Liberator of Argentina, Chile and Peru (1943) by Margaret Hayne Harrison, p. 159

"Your coarse impudence in making me a proposition to employ my sword in a civil war is simply incomprehensible. You insolent scoundrel! Do you realize it has never been dipped in American blood?" -- Response of a request by José de la Riva Agüero for support in a revolution against the Peruvian congress in 1823, as quoted in ''Captain of the Andes : The Life of José de San Martín, Liberator of Argentina, Chile and Peru (1943) by Margaret Hayne Harrison, p. 201

"The conscience is the best and most impartial judge that a righteous man has." Letter from Brussels (18 December 1827), quoted in La Rivista de Buenos Aires (1864) edited by Miguel Navarro Viola y Vicente G. Quesada, Vol. 4

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Cybersyn
Fuk u commies.

"San Martín's interests and talents lay in military campaigns. He had no aptitude for politics and it bewildered him. His personal ambition so often expressed in his letters, never varied. It was to hand the pacified country over to competent governing hands and then retire to Mendoza and end his days as a contented farmer. He was always the recluse, the ascetic introvert, and he was happiest in solitude. He evidently preferred some form of centralized republic, such as the Unitarios advocated, for Argentina and Chile, but for Peru he felt the feudal conditions there required a constitutional monarchy. … Few public figures have been pursued with such relentless hate, and for so little reason. He had a reserve and aloofness that was rarely penetrated and a scorn of stooping to say the popular thing that would curry favor." -- Margaret Hayne Harrison, in Captain of the Andes : The Life of José de San Martín, Liberator of Argentina, Chile and Peru (1943), p. 199

That wasn't a police state any more than companies using computers is a police state.

How it's that a police state?

It's computer centralized economy, a completely different thing.

Just be careful he offed himself.

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Ataturk, the only good Turk

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*grateful

Nero was such a fucking scumbag

Who is this?

Tommy Toblerone, a British war hero executed in Vimy during WWI

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Oh. Why was he executed? Shell shock and that?

They say he was just too nice, gerry thought he was plotting something. Tragic really.

Jerry? Like the uncle in rick and morty? Lol
Who is Gerry?

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Why did it have to die, Veeky Forums?

dindu nuffin

This but unironical.

Because people want freedom.

I still blame Rasputin.

Then why do they keep giving it away?

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Got fucked over by both his own government and his neighbors.

No, that guy was legit retarded.
Also
>he started no war
He almost started a civil war (which was avoided thanks to Pinochet).
>killed nobody
Yes, because he let the VOP and MIR kill people for him.
>reduced child mortality
>incremented the country's iq
(not true by the way)
>not his fault Socialism was incompatible with the interest of human nature
Fixed ;)

> plotting against the emperor
> nothing wrong

>and ended up selling pastries
I mean, that's not THAT bad an end, considering how many in this thread winded up dead

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