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December 7th, 2012, 02:00 AM
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#1 | | Bonapartist
Joined: Sep 2010 From: Somewhere in the former First French Empire Posts: 3,105 | Your favorite struggle for independence?
Of all the wars for independence, think of the Eighty Years War (Dutch independence against the Spanish, American Revolution, Gandhi struggle for Indian independence etc. Which of all those struggles in history interests you the most and why?
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December 7th, 2012, 02:28 AM
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#2 | | Historian
Joined: Mar 2012 From: Following the breeze Posts: 1,204 | Quote:
Originally Posted by jeroenrottgering  Of all the wars for independence, think of the Eighty Years War (Dutch independence against the Spanish, American Revolution, Gandhi struggle for Indian independence etc. Which of all those struggles in history interests you the most and why? | The Boer Wars, for obvious reasons. The Bush Wars also fascinates me, again for obvious reasons... These many more, but first I have to remember them...
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December 7th, 2012, 04:19 AM
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#3 | | Bonapartist
Joined: Sep 2010 From: Somewhere in the former First French Empire Posts: 3,105 | Quote:
Originally Posted by The Cell The Boer Wars, for obvious reasons. The Bush Wars also fascinates me, again for obvious reasons... These many more, but first I have to remember them... | Are you Afrikaans or Boer?
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December 7th, 2012, 05:30 AM
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#4 | | Historian
Joined: Mar 2012 From: Following the breeze Posts: 1,204 | Quote:
Originally Posted by jeroenrottgering Are you Afrikaans or Boer? | I'm a mixer of everything  ...
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December 7th, 2012, 07:14 AM
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#5 | | Historian
Joined: Aug 2009 Posts: 1,769 |
Any resistance movement in the occupied countries during WW2.
The Polish uprising against the Nazi's (in Warsaw) is particularly inspiring. Then the eastern Europeans (in general) resistance movements to the Soviets. I don't think they get the credit which is deserved.
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December 7th, 2012, 07:19 AM
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#6 | | Epicurean
Joined: Mar 2009 From: Texas Posts: 24,327 |
The Texas Revolution (1835-36), it was short, and full of large characters.
The American Revolution (1775-83), it was both a war featuring Enlightenment thinkers and
heroic figures.
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December 7th, 2012, 07:25 AM
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#7 | | Historian
Joined: Aug 2009 Posts: 1,769 | Quote:
Originally Posted by tjadams The American Revolution | Someone had to mention it, now its been brought up can we all agree to not bring it up again?   | | | |
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December 7th, 2012, 07:30 AM
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#8 | | Epicurean
Joined: Mar 2009 From: Texas Posts: 24,327 | Quote:
Originally Posted by Baldtastic | Ok, I'll agree to that if no one brings up William & Kate.  | | | |
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December 7th, 2012, 07:32 AM
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#9 | | Historian
Joined: Aug 2009 Posts: 1,769 | Quote:
Originally Posted by tjadams Ok, I'll agree to that if no one brings up William & Kate. | But i feel you will be short changed
George Washington & Bunker Hill
There, even | | | |
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December 7th, 2012, 07:36 AM
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#10 | | Epicurean
Joined: Mar 2009 From: Texas Posts: 24,327 |
I'm bad at math:
Washington-Yorktown-Rochambeau.
There, now a nice tidy 'even'. | | | |
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