It's hard to create a serious thread nowadays without some loudmouth butthole ruining it, but I'm going to give it a try.
Post paintings of several battlefields your country has been involved in, be it victories or defeat..and don't forget to add small descriptions to the pictures. I'll add more pics later.
^^ Battle of Breitenfeld, 1631.(Thirty Years War). Gustavus Adolphus (Gustav II Adolf) forces defeated the Catholic League led by General Tilly.
^^ Battle of Lutzen, 1632. (Thirty Years War) Combatants were Sweden and protestant German states vs, Holy Roman Empire and catholic German states. Gustavus Adolphus was killed in this battle. Sweden won, with a small margin.
^^ Battle of Öland, 1676. Sweden vs Denmark and Netherlands. A fairly well-known naval battle since it involved the loss of the Swedish warship Kronan, the largest warship in Europe at the time. Unfortunately, Sweden lost the battle.
^^ Battle of Narva, 1700. Sweden vs Russia. King Charles XII engaged the Russian Army (consisting of 37,000 men) that was besieging the Swedish (now Estonian) city of Narva. Sweden won despite being outnumbered almost 4 to 1.
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In the Second Anglo-Dutch War, the Dutch navy under Lieutenant-admiral Michiel de Ruyter bombarded Sheerness, went up the River Thames to Gravesend, then up the River Medway to Chatham, where they burnt four capital ships, and towed away the Royal Charles, pride and normal flagship of the English fleet.
In a discreet place in the Rijksmuseum of Amsterdam the transom of the Royal Charles, with the Lion and Unicorn and the inscription Dieu et Mon Droit is still on display.
I do not know the specific battles or operations, but all of the following are of the Iraqi Imposed War (these are all from the Iranian side of course):
The Wellcome sign: Written in Blood is "Khoonin Shahr" (City of Blood), this was the nickname given to Khorramshahr, which is our Stalingrad
The one with Saddam: This is my personal favorite, its title is "POW"
The last one: Those were the five Generals who were killed in a C-130 crash in 1981. The largest portrait is of Shahid Kolah Douz. The rest (from left to right): Shahid Namjoo, Shahid Falahi, Shahid Fakkouri, Shahid Jahan Ara
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^^ Battle of Poltava. 60,000 Swedish troops were sent to capture Moscow, but due to the Russian "scorched earth" strategy, only 20,000 made it to the battle, and had to go toe-to-toe with 45,000 Russians. This was a decisive victory for the Russians, since this marked the end of Sweden's role as a great power in Europe.
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Battle of Kircholm: The Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth defeat the Swedes decisively in 20 minutes by a charge by the Winged Hussars. 100 dead for Poland with some 7,000 to 9,000 Swedes killed.
Battle of Vienna: The Polish King Sobieski saves Christian Europe from an almighty Ottoman invasion at Vienna.
The Battle of Somosierra: Polish Cavalry charge, which broke the Spanish batteries and allowed the French infantry to quickly dispose and capture the Spanish forces. The popular legend says while Kozietulski lead the men into the charge, he rang the battle cry: "Naprzód psiekrwie, Cesarz patrzy!"... "Forward, you sons of dogs, the Emperor is looking at you!"
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Nice thread keep it going. I won't comment about those with inferiority complex, targetting the French.
Hasting 1066 French forces under the Normans faction defeating the English.
Battle of Dresden (135,000 French defeating 215,000 Austro-Russo-Prussian army.)
Battle of Bouvine (French defeating combined Anglo-German army. Mighty French king Augutus at the front of the army. See norman vassals behind his francilien allies holding the Lion standard)
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Battle of Marengo (France beating European Coalition)
Battle of Hohenliden (France defeating European Coalition)
Friedland (Russian and prussian defeated by French army)
Ill-fated Invasion of Russia
Battle of Gravelotte (Franco-prussian war, French tactically defeating prussian despite being severely outnumbered, 20,000 Prussian casualties for 7,000 french)
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^^ Swedish army bombarding the fortress of Dunamunde. 1608, Polish-Swedish war.
^^ The Finnish War, fought between Sweden and Russia. This ultimately led to the loss of Finland (which was a Swedish province at the time), in 1809. This was one of the biggest military setbacks for Sweden.
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Does anyone have the Painting of the Swedish navy sailing out of Reval after raiding the then russian city in Gustav III's Russian war. The original is in the Swedish museum of naval history and is extremely impressive.
Battle of Svensksund; this was a Major swedish naval victory, I believe the Finnish navy has a minelayer by that name.
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Nice keep it going. For once the turks are doing a good job posting some great paintings.
sorry for messing the table, I didn't know the picture would turn out that big. But, its art
the bigger the better sometime.
battle of carillon (also known a fort Ticonderoga): french forces decisively defeating british.
amazingly the british had 16,000 men against 3,500 French (defending)
Battle of Fort Duquesne (French victory over british in North america, a highlander division was nearly annilated)
Battle of the Monongahela (French over British, north america)
Disastrous siege of Pavia (Spanish slaughtered french troop beseiging Pavia)
Borodino (French claim victory, Russian also claimed victory, although it was a tactical victory for
France)
battle of malplaquet (Considered a french strategic victory although the British and allies
claim a tactical victory. But the british suffered 20,000 casulaties, twice more than the French)
Battle of Aboukir (French defeating Turks)
Battle of hondeschoote (French defeating british)
Battle of Valmy (french revolutionary army defeating invading Prussian and Austrian)
Siege of Toulon (France beating british)
Battle of Castillon (French beating English Talbot killed by french knights)
Battle of Agincourt (welsh longbowman rained arrows onto French knights trapped in the mud)
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Belgium: we never waged war but many wars were fought on our soil, here it goes:
an overwhelming French army attacking Flanders, all the French knights were killed by simple peasants (though we had some cavalry). Flanders was back then a true power to be reckoned with economically
Godfried de Bouillon, the Belgian who led the first Crusade into Jerusalem
Gentenaars forced to love the Emperor Karel
King Albert I at the Ijzer-front, the Belgian let the sea take over the land to push back the invading Germans
the first railroad in the world after England. Belgian was the most liberal country in the world back then, our constitution was heavily inspired by the USA though
Vikings plundering Antwerp
"On the 4th November 1576 Spanish soldiers ransack Antwerp. They had not received pay for many months and decided to get the money where it could be found."
Back then, Antwerp was a true metropolis, incredibly rich (as they have always been)
sikhs in Flanders - 1915
German attrocities in Haekondaver
40 000 (heavily) outnumbered Belgians against a much better equiped German army to defend Ličge in order for our Army to retreat safely (in other words, to not get crushed). The 40 000 Belgians fought extremely well.
Flanders - WWI (artist impression)
A Rubens (one of the greatest painters ever imo), Flanders (and Antwerp) was back then reknown for its art (the Lam Gods is painted by Van Eyck a flemish painter)
For those interested, there's a whole wing at the Louvres dedicated to those Flemish painters
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In 1076 Godfry the Hunchback from the House of Ardenne, Duke of Bouillon, died childless. His cousin Godfry inherited the castle and its domain. This new duke was the son of Eustatius of Boulogne and Ide of Ardenne. He would became famous as leader of the first crusade. In order to be able to finance this crusade Godfry sold his castle for an enormous amount of money to Otbert, prince-bishop of Liege. Otbert desperately wanted to own this strategically important area and therefore plundered the abbeys and monasteries of his own diocese in order to come up with the necessary funds for the purchase.
Godfry left Bouillon in 1096 to lead the first crusade. He conquered Jerusalem, but died there in 1100 as 'protector of the Holy Sepulcher', after he had refused the title of King of Jerusalem. A romantic statue of Godfry can be seen on the Royal Square in Brussels. "
so the finance of the first crusade was due to the sale of a Belgian castle to another Belgian noble
Ofcourse there was no such thing as Belgium back then. But to say this man was born in todays France and was French is just not true.
Now Eryx, if you want, you can reply with your own sources to clarify this.
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In 1076 Godfry the Hunchback from the House of Ardenne, Duke of Bouillon, died childless. His cousin Godfry inherited the castle and its domain. This new duke was the son of Eustatius of Boulogne and Ide of Ardenne. He would became famous as leader of the first crusade. In order to be able to finance this crusade Godfry sold his castle for an enormous amount of money to Otbert, prince-bishop of Liege. Otbert desperately wanted to own this strategically important area and therefore plundered the abbeys and monasteries of his own diocese in order to come up with the necessary funds for the purchase.
Godfry left Bouillon in 1096 to lead the first crusade. He conquered Jerusalem, but died there in 1100 as 'protector of the Holy Sepulcher', after he had refused the title of King of Jerusalem. A romantic statue of Godfry can be seen on the Royal Square in Brussels. "
so the finance of the first crusade was due to the sale of a Belgian castle to another Belgian noble
Ofcourse there was no such thing as Belgium back then. But to say this man was born in todays France and was French is just not true.
Now Eryx, if you want, you can reply with your own sources to clarify this.
To start with Godefroi was born in Baisy (Gennape) Brabant-wallon (and absolutely not Flemish-Brabant).
Secondly, Belgian is a modern creation consisting of two ethnic groups: the French (walloons) and some weird people.
In those days, the brabant-wallon was attached to Francia occitentalis and Godefroi was ethnically French. Belgium didn't even exist in those days. He was certainly French and spoke French and was of the French ethnicity. You cannot get less French than him, and walloons are also French, even nowadays. THere is no such thing as belgian, perhaps you could say the Flemish are Belgian but not the walloons. Belgium is an imaginary country, whose glory was founded mostly by Frenchmen. THe Flemish had never amounted to anything historically; a few overrated dark paintings but that's it.
One day Wallonia would be absorbed back in France.
We will not accept that Godefroi was a Belgian, out of question. Get a flemish crusader for that. Godefroi wasn't even a walloon, he was from the house of Ardenne for christ sake.
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french getting ass kicked on Battle of Leipzig
