post obscure or lesser known military confrontations of history. I'll start:
>Battle of Lepanto (Holy League against the Ottoman Empire)
>last major naval battle fought mostly by galleys
>commemorated in a catholic feast day (Feast of Our Lady of the Rosary)
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How the fuck is that battle "obscure or lesser known"
Imagine being there
Fun fact Cervantes, writer of the Quijote, was there
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>Battle of Kings Mountain during the American Revolutionary War
>arguably the turning point in the war
>far less famous than say, Valley Forge or Bunker Hill
didn't know that
This is to me one of the most famous in history.
I've never heard about a single one of the battles mentioned here, not even the ones that are supposed to be more famous than the obscure one.
I guess that the term obscure is pretty subjective.
He also lost his left arm's mobility there, but continued fighting in several battles in the mediterranean. He considered Lepanto the highest point of human history.
Are you American, British, or French? If not, why would you know about battles in the American Revolution?
>obscure
>celebrated as a holiday
lemme think for it bit bruh
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While every WW2 buff knows this battle, I still find it quite interesting in a sense of a small British scouting force routing an Italian force 5 times their size while only taking like ~2000 casualties
I don't know if any battle of WW2 can truly be called obscure, but it's amazing how many people don't seem to know about the Roslavl–Novozybkov Offensive.
>Be the Soviets towards the end of August, 1941.
>Things are not going great.
>They punched you straight up the middle, and even shoveling every reinforcement you can get to the area is only slowing the tide, not stopping it.
>But, you are forming that army around Kiev
>Hey, the Germans are breaking off close to a third of their army to help deal with it.
>That leaves them vulnerable up around the center, right? That is after all, the most direct route to Moscow.
>ATTACK!
>It goes badly.
>Very badly.
>Lose half your men and accomplish basically nothing badly.
>When Heersgruppe mitte returns to their previous posts, you're now actually weaker than you were at the end of August, and now Moscow really is threatened.
Mostly I bring it up because you get legions of people when criticizing the decision to divert towards Kiev, who just seem to assume there was nothing between Smolensk and Moscow when the decision was made. It simply isn't true, and the defenses were actually thinner when they did launch Taifun than they were when they decided to go after Kiev.
Crusader is better. And probably even less known.
And to be fair, it was mostly defeating strung out units who largely had no motorized or mechanized support. Rommel does the same thing in reverse during Sonnenblume and it's the most amazing thing ever.
Yup, encircling Kiev was the smartest decision Hitler took on the eastern front imo.
You just dont let a 750k large force chilling on the flank of your main advance thrust
It should be discussed more on Veeky Forums. but the Battle of Lepanto is not remotely obscure.
>Battle of some random swedish forest
Charles XII
1 Stick
VS
Bear
Result:
Swedish victory
Exactly my point. Actually I would add that even brits and french should not necessarily know about the american revolution since it's a footnote for them, the USA would not become important until later.
"The bear was a Russian spy." - CNN
Fair enough.
By March 1945 German moral and effectiveness had recovered enoung for Guderians replacement "Hang them high" Schorner to organise a counterblow against the 3rd guards tank army that had invested Breslau in upper Silesia.
Schorner delegated command to Nehring who ordered a pincer attack at the rail-hub of Lauban. The 3rd guards was taken completely by suprise;its encircled portion would be wiped out within four days in brutal fighting.
Joseph Goebbels visited Lauban on 9 March. In his diary he wrote that a Soviet tank corps was almost completely destroyed with the Germans suffering only light losses. In Lauban the large scale of destruction was apparent. He also described the determinded, merciless behaviour of both German and Soviet soldiers during the battle – which was the main reason why only 176 Red Army soldiers were taken prisoner during the operation. The Soviets lost 162 tanks, 106 vehicles, 159 assault guns and 74 mortars. The 3rd Guard Tank Army suffered such terrible losses it had to be withdrawn from the frontline Contrary to Goebbels’ claims the Germans lost a considerably large number of soliders (especially the Führer Escort Division) but only 10 tanks.
wiki link please and thank you.
Not him, but he means this. en.wikipedia.org
Probably the most recent on this thread.
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Thanks man.
>Kaloyan writtes to the pope saying he did in good killing the Byzantines and requests an imperial crown
>Gets the crown and then immediately after this happens
Nothing personel Innocent
His life was amazing and full of adventures, enough material for a good historical film.
It would have been fucking hell i reckon
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Charles V stole Tunis for 40 years
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don't bully italians
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KV stronk tonk