NEW BLOG: Top ten Battles in history (EVENTS IN HUMAN HISTORY)

mainestategop ^ | Kyle Weissman

[mainestategop]

This is a soft opening for our new blog by Kyle Weissman. He's been instrumental in helping me with my blog and he's done a lot of work for us in the New England Alliance for liberty and Free Markets. We've decided to give him his own blog as a reward for good work.

Kyle is planning on doing all these series for us in the future but we decided to start with this.

FUTURE HISTORY POSTS

THE VIETNAM WAR AND ITS ORIGINS

FRANCISCO FRANCO AND THE SPANISH CIVIL WAR

THE ROMANCE OF THE THREE KINGDOMS AND ITS RELEVANCE TO CURRENT EVENTS IN AMERICA

THE MILITARY CAMPAIGN IN GUADALCANAL

JOSHUA AND THE CANAANITE CONQUEST

AND MORE...

[mainestategop]

OH! The adress is http://eventsinhumanhistory.blogspot.com/

[Texas Fossil]

“So, you wont be reading about the 300 Spartans or the Battle of Pharsalus and Caesar, nor will you read of Waterloo and Napoleon.”

—

No mention of Battle of Thermopylae, Yorktown, San Jacinto?

Nonsense.

[dangus]

Some interesting battles, but Lepanto belongs way ahead of Wm Wallace. And as bad history as 300 is (the Persians were the good guys), Thermopylae belongs on this list, too. Is D-Day shunned simply because everyone already knows about it? Okinawa? Since the author likes the Far East (appropriately, since this is a global scope and that is where the most people live), how about the Fall of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom? That's the decisive battle in the bloodiest war ever fought, which most people don't even know happened. How about Ngọc Hồi-Đống Đa? The Vietnamese resisted the Chinese, outnumbered 4 to 1. The Battle of Poitiers (Tours)? The Siege of Orleans? The Siege of Vienna?

[DarthVader]

Loved that you have Lepanto up here. I have posted a picture of this battle in a select place.

[OKSooner]

Thanks for all the effort you put into this.

Just one thing... the past tense of the verb "lead", rhymes with "reed", is "LED".

"Lead", when pronounced to rhyme with "red", is the stuff that bullets and wheel weights are made from.

[Deo volente]

No mention of Battle of Thermopylae, Yorktown, San Jacinto? Nonsense.

Also no mention of Tours in 732, where Charles Martel's defeat of the Moors stopped Muslim expansion into Europe and made possible the Christian Middle Ages. Without that, we'd be speaking Arabic today and praying five times a day towards Mecca. Hugely significant battle.

[Carriage Hill]

Peace is that brief glorious moment in history, when everyone stands around reloading.

[dfwgator]

The “Miracle on the Vistula” in 1920, saved all of Europe from Bolshevism.

[LambSlave]

The first article we present from Kyle Weissman's blog on Mainestategop are about 10 great battles in history that hardly anybody knows about. These are battles that were won using tactical genius against all odds and that are not known in history.

Given this, not a terrible list. I think the absence of Belisarius (Vandal, Ostragoth campaigns) is distressing, but those battles are relatively well known amongst military historians compared to most on this list.

[Deo volente]

The author did qualify his list by saying these are all battles that many have not heard about. I confess that I was not aware of several of them before reading this. The well-known events are not considered for this list.

Here’s another that’s not generally well-known:

Battle of Zama, 202 B.C. Scipio Africanus defeats Hannibal’s army and Rome puts an end to the Carthaginian threat.

[mainestategop]

The battles ranked were unknown or forgotten battles. Particularly those not known to western audiences. So no, 300 Napoleon and Waterloo and Caesar ET AL are not mentioned.

The only problem I have is that the 1920 battle of the Vistula between Poland and the USSR is not mentioned. Given that Kyle is anti-communist I was surprised not to find it on the list.

I am glad that He mentioned the battle of Yarmouk. That is one battle we should remember. Gaixia I thought was also a good one and so was the Six Day war but I am having trouble as to why Hansan-do and Sterling Bridge are mentioned?

I would've liked it if he mentioned in addition to the miracle of the Vistula, he should put down The siege of Malta, Verdun, some Genghis Khan stuff maybe some stuff from the crusades.

[dfwgator]

No mention of the Battle of Kursk?

[AFret.]

Midway

[wardaddy]

Nonsense is right

This list reflects Weissmans partialities

The Six Dar War which however valiant is low impact insofar as total human history

The dig at Mel Gibson

Whatever happened to historical objectivity

Rare as hens teeth

[Steven Tyler]

Bump

[Texas Fossil]

Yep

[Texas Fossil]

And the fall of Acre.

[Texas Fossil]

Yes. I agree.

[wardaddy]

And I don’t really give a shit about oriental battles of antiquity

Maybe Divine Wind

All those laggard cultures rode on our backs

Why give them equal footing?

The evolution of western civilization and the founding of the new world and the rise and fall of Christendom is what got all of us where we are now

Everything else is tangential or corollary

And we’ve thrown it all away