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December 13th, 2012, 07:50 AM
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#1 | Suspended indefinitely ¤ Member of the Year ¤
Joined: Sep 2011 From: ------------ Posts: 24,135 | An Unexpected Alliance
What are your favourite moments in history where unexpected alliances were formed? I am thinking of alliances made which shocked people. Cheers.
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December 13th, 2012, 07:51 AM
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#2 | l'esprit de l'escalier
Joined: Jan 2010 From: ♪♬ ♫♪♩ Posts: 13,691 |
Burgundy and England against the Dauphin of France.
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December 13th, 2012, 07:57 AM
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#3 | Scoundrel ¤ Member of the Year ¤
Joined: Feb 2011 From: Perambulating in St James' Park Posts: 13,372 |
Octavian and Anthony.
Hitler and Stalin.
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December 13th, 2012, 07:58 AM
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#4 | Historian
Joined: Oct 2010 Posts: 6,858 |
Hitler and Stalin. hands down number 1. Cant think of anything thats gonna top that.
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December 13th, 2012, 11:03 AM
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#5 | Eochair Feasa Foghlaim
Joined: Aug 2011 From: Gaillimh (Ireland) Posts: 4,213 |
Maybe not the most unexpected, but surely extremely heterogeneous: the alliance proclaimed At Constance between the Eidgenossen of the Old Swiss Confederacy, Alsatian towns and municipalities(Strasbourg, the Sundgau and Breisgau), the County of Tirol, the Duchy of Lorraine; plus with the support of Louis XI and the Emperor Frederick III, all united against the Duchy of Burgundy.
The Republic of Venice allying herself with the Kingdom of France, just four years after the Battle of Agnadello(1509), the greatest defeat suffered by Venice...Precisely at the hands of the army of Louis XII.
Francis I of France, "Most Christian King", allying himself with the Ottoman Sultan Suleiman I in order to oppose the Holy Roman Empire of Charles V (in Italy, in the Mediterranean and in the Balkan theatre)
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December 13th, 2012, 11:15 AM
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#6 | Citizen
Joined: Oct 2012 From: Manila Posts: 35 |
America and Saddam Hussein :P and to any totalitarian regime back in the cold war.
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Last edited by yapxingguan; December 13th, 2012 at 11:26 AM.
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December 13th, 2012, 11:22 AM
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#7 | Historian
Joined: May 2012 From: Here to Eternity Posts: 4,407 | Quote:
Originally Posted by pugsville Hitler and Stalin. hands down number 1. Cant think of anything thats gonna top that. | I can't see that this one was so unexpected tbh. Aside from its being a non-agression treaty rather than an alliance, it was really just an opportunistic temporary arrangement which suited both parties very well at the time.
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December 13th, 2012, 11:34 AM
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#8 | Historian
Joined: Sep 2010 Posts: 6,431 |
the earl of warwick and margaret of anjou was a shocker..
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December 13th, 2012, 11:37 AM
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#9 | Citizen
Joined: Dec 2012 From: Athens of the North Posts: 17 | Quote:
Originally Posted by M.E.T.H.O.D.
The Republic of Venice allying herself with the Kingdom of France, just four years after the Battle of Agnadello(1509), the greatest defeat suffered by Venice...Precisely at the hands of the army of Louis XII. | Great example. I'd even say whole series of Italian Wars was full of unusual alliances as far as the fact that each country, principality, kingdom etc. involved kept changing alliances year after year.
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December 13th, 2012, 11:38 AM
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#10 | Idiot of the year 2013
Joined: Mar 2008 From: Damned England Posts: 9,986 |
The Franciscans and the Holy Roman Emperor.
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