Posted on 07/14/2009 3:59:14 AM PDT by decimon
In A.D. 1287, China's great Mongol emperor Khubilai Khan received word that his navy had been crushed in Vietnam. Nearly 400 of the emperor's prized ships, part of a massive invasion force, had become trapped in the Bach Dang River, where Vietnamese soldiers set them afire with flaming arrows and burning bamboo rafts. In later years, the leader of the Vietnamese forces, Tran Hung Dao, boasted of his effortless victory. "When the enemy advances roaring like fire and wind," he observed, "it is easy to overcome them."
(Excerpt) Read more at archaeology.org ...
Header page for equivalent stories of Phoenician, Roman, etc. wreck discoveries here: Diving into History.
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Thanks decimon for posting this one, in gracious response to my bleary-eyed request. Judging from the rest of the listed ones, GGG has an entire week's worth of good topics. ;') |
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He shoulda put punji stakes on the Enterprise.
Khan: He tasks me. He tasks me and I shall have him! I’ll chase him ‘round the moons of Nibia and ‘round the Antares Maelstrom and ‘round Perdition’s flames before I give him up!
Khan: [quoting from Melville’s Moby Dick] To the last, I will grapple with thee... from Hell’s heart, I stab at thee! For hate’s sake, I spit my last breath at thee!
Khan: I’ve done far worse than kill you, Admiral. I’ve hurt you. And I wish to go on hurting you. I shall leave you as you left me, as you left her; marooned for all eternity in the center of a dead planet... buried alive! Buried alive...!
Kirk: KHAAANNNN!
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Kirk: KHAAANNNN!
Sounds a bit like Ahab if you ask me.
Strange, because Kirk didn’t turn into a white whale until the 90s.
Hillary on the other hand.. has been a white whale since the 1970s...
Calling Dirk Pitt!
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