[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.”

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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.

[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.

[dfwgator]

No mention of the Battle of Kursk?

[Squidpup]

Self bump. Good stuff

[IronJack]

Hastings.
Agincourt.
Borodin.
Ardennes.
Somme.
Marathon.
Gettysburg.
Gallipoli.
Bosworth Field.

How important are a bunch of Far Eastern dynastic wars versus the battles that have shaped western civilization?

This list is highly subjective.

[Ted Grant]

Where’s Hulk Hogan vs Andre The Giant from Wrestlemania III?