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Re: Great Battles in History

Postby aad0906 on Mon Aug 23, 2021 10:03 pm

Raid on the Medway
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Re: Great Battles in History

Postby jusplay4fun on Tue Aug 24, 2021 8:28 pm

aad0906 wrote:Raid on the Medway


Nothing really changed over the long sweep of History by this battle.

The Raid on the Medway, during the Second Anglo-Dutch War in June 1667, was a successful attack conducted by the Dutch navy on English warships laid up in the fleet anchorages off Chatham Dockyard and Gillingham in the county of Kent. At the time, the fortress of Upnor Castle and a barrier chain called the "Gillingham Line" were supposed to protect the English ships.

For a few years the English fleet was handicapped by its losses during the raid, but by around 1670 a new building programme had restored the English Navy to its former strength.
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Re: Great Battles in History

Postby jusplay4fun on Wed Sep 29, 2021 11:39 pm

For me the Battle of Saratoga is one of the key turning points (or inflection points) in the American Revolution against Great Britain.

The Battle of Saratoga occurred in September and October, 1777, during the second year of the American Revolution. It included two crucial battles, fought eighteen days apart, and was a decisive victory for the Continental Army and a crucial turning point in the Revolutionary War.

Significance of the Battle of Saratoga
The Battle of Saratoga was a turning point in the American Revolution. It gave the Patriots a major morale boost and persuaded the French, Spanish and Dutch to join their cause against a mutual rival.

France’s naval support eventually helped the Continental Army win the final Battle of Yorktown, leading to the end of the American Revolution.


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Re: Great Battles in History

Postby ConfederateSS on Thu Sep 30, 2021 1:35 am

------------The Great Siege at Malta 1565 A.D...
-------------Years before in 1522 A.D. French Christian Knight Jean Partisan De Vallete and his Knights of St.John the Baptist (or Hospitallor)...Were driven from the Isle of Rhodes...The Spanish King Charles let them settle on Malta,for the price of one Gold ,jeweled Falcon to be given to Spain/Him each year...Thus ,the Maltese Falcon was born...,but that is a story for another day...
-----------Now it is May 18th ,1565 A.D....The Ottomans are unstoppable... running over all they attack...Now they are led By The Sultan Sulymani The Magnificent ...He has sent 40,000 Turkish Muslim Soldiers to crush Malta...700 Knights of St.John the Baptist led By De Vallete Vs 40,000 Turks.....Now for those that do not believe in GOD....Hold your horses....Every other Last Stand in History,not GOD soldiers...Have had what outcome....The 300 vs 500,000 Persians...Custer 235 U.S.Calvary vs 10,000 Indians...Again...Not GOD soldiers......They were wipedout.....Here you have GOD soldiers... Christians vs Muslims...East vs West...as control of Europe hangs in the balance...
----------There are 3 forts in The Grand Harbor...St.Elmo ,St.Micheal and St.Angelo....The Turks attack....On May 18th...They land troops....Cannons from the 3 forts and the Turkish ships blast away at each other...For weeks...Even cannons the Turks brought on land as the attack the forts from all sides..The Knights at St.Elmo Fort ask De Vallete can they leave...He orders them to stay....St.Elmo falls 1st...It is on one side of the Harbor...The other 2 forts on the other side....The Turkish Commander after all the Knights are killed at St.Elmo ,has their bodies but on wood crosses and float them towards the other Forts Across the Harbor,as a message to the Knights still fighting...De Vallete orders captured Turks to be beheaded ,and shoots their heads across the Harbor ,by cannon ,at Fort Elmo and the Turkish Commander..
-----------Now ,maybe by a Higher Power...The Knights hold out ,Attack ,after attack, month after month..
-----------In August ,watching those brave Knights fight overwhelming odds....The people of Malta...8,000 or so...begin to help the Knights defend their Island....Attacking the Turks on the land,and getting supplies to the Forts of The Knights...
-------------Now ,it is getting late in the Year...The Mediterranean will be hard to sail in...So,the Turkish Commander comes up with a plan...He needs a fast win,or He and his forces will be stuck on Malta for the Winter....He takes apart some of his ships and builds a siege Tower....Mean while...De Vallete come up with a plan of his own...Right where the Turks are building their Tower...at that point in the Fort's wall....De Vallete orders the inside of the wall chipped away....The Turks finish their Tower....move it next to the wall...As they climb on the Tower begin to attack....De Vallete unleashes his surprise,he had placed cannons on his chipped away side....Fired his cannons at the weakened wall... Smashing, destroying The Turks siege Tower...They hold off the Turks that pour through the hole in the wall....The Knights form 2 lines of Pikeman...Behind them...2 lines of rifle men... The Pikeman keep the Turks at bay...As the rifleman reload...
-----------The Turkish Commander doesn't want to get stuck on Malta....He orders his men back to the ships...They sail home.....On September 11th, 1565 A.D...Yes,9--11....The 4 month battle is over...The Ottomans are stopped,when it seems they never will be...Europe is saved...The Catholic Church ,Rome,Italy is safe....Did Grandknight De Vallete get help in defeating the 40,000 Turks with only 700(yes later a few 1,000 joined,but still)...from a Higher source...When so many times in History,when those odds come up in a Last Stand...they are wipedout....But the Last Stand of The Knights of St.John the Baptist....WIN!!!...Makes one think doesn't it....
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Re: Great Battles in History

Postby jusplay4fun on Thu Sep 30, 2021 5:36 am

Thanks, ConfSS. Yes, a key battle and similar to the dice giving you a 2 vs. 500 troop win. What were the odds at Malta?

That does make one wonder.
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Re: Great Battles in History

Postby jusplay4fun on Fri Oct 01, 2021 4:14 am

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The Third Servile War, also called by Plutarch the Gladiator War and the War of Spartacus, was the last in a series of slave rebellions against the Roman Republic, known as the Servile Wars. The Third was the only one directly to threaten the Roman heartland of Italy. It was particularly alarming to Rome because its military seemed powerless to suppress it.

The revolt began in 73 BC, with the escape of around 70 slave-gladiators from a gladiator school in Capua; they easily defeated the small Roman force sent to recapture them. Within two years, they had been joined by some 120,000 men, women and children; the able-bodied adults of this band were a surprisingly effective armed force that repeatedly showed they could withstand or defeat the Roman military, from the local Campanian patrols, to the Roman militia and even to trained Roman legions under consular command. The slaves roamed across Italia, raiding estates and towns with relative impunity, sometimes dividing into separate but connected bands with several leaders, including the famous gladiator-general Spartacus.

The Roman Senate grew increasingly alarmed at the slave-army's depredations and continued military successes. Eventually Rome fielded an army of eight legions under the harsh but effective leadership of Marcus Licinius Crassus. The war ended in 71 BC when, after a long and bitter fighting retreat before the legions of Crassus and the realization that the legions of Pompey and Marcus Terentius Varro Lucullus were moving in to entrap them, the armies of Spartacus launched their full strength against Crassus' legions and were utterly defeated. Of the survivors, some 6,000 were crucified along the Appian Way.

Plutarch's account of the revolt suggests that the slaves simply wished to escape to freedom and leave Roman territory by way of Cisalpine Gaul. Appian and Florus describe the revolt as a civil war, in which the slaves intended to capture the city of Rome. The Third Servile War had significant and far-reaching effects on Rome's broader history. Pompey and Crassus exploited their successes to further their political careers, using their public acclaim and the implied threat of their legions to sway the consular elections of 70 BC in their favor. Their actions as Consuls greatly furthered the subversion of Roman political institutions and contributed to the development of the Roman Republic into the Roman Empire.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third_Servile_War
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