Worst Military Loss in History
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Napoleon, renowned commander that he was, suffered one defeat so humiliating he ordered it struck from the records. (It was recorded in a lot of places anyway)
He once went rabbit hunting with fellow nobles, and in order to make the rabbits lethargic and more likely to stay in the open, the keepers had not fed them for some time, providing better targets.
As Napoleon stepped from his carriage, resplendant in full dress uniform, his guests and he armed with rifles, the rabbits were released. Upon seeing the rather magnificent figure, they assumed he was going to feed them. Filled with mad hunger, they charged the Emperor of France.
Napoleon fled the field of battle, pursued by rabbits, followed closely by his entourage, his nobles, and the breeders.
Ladies and Gentlemen, the worst military defeat in history. Both embarassing, and total.
He once went rabbit hunting with fellow nobles, and in order to make the rabbits lethargic and more likely to stay in the open, the keepers had not fed them for some time, providing better targets.
As Napoleon stepped from his carriage, resplendant in full dress uniform, his guests and he armed with rifles, the rabbits were released. Upon seeing the rather magnificent figure, they assumed he was going to feed them. Filled with mad hunger, they charged the Emperor of France.
Napoleon fled the field of battle, pursued by rabbits, followed closely by his entourage, his nobles, and the breeders.
Ladies and Gentlemen, the worst military defeat in history. Both embarassing, and total.
WWI
The Crusades
The Winter War
Thermopylae THIS IS SPARTA!
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The Crusades
The Winter War
Thermopylae THIS IS SPARTA!
PS This thread is #1 search result from google "Worst military loss in history" lol!
Actually it did, the Brits stopped press-ganging your sailors and generally decided to leave you alone. On the other hand, you burnt only one of our government centers, we burnt the whitehouse. Truly, the war of 1812 was a blunder from start to finish, though tactically the british were beginning to send serious amounts of troops over by the end, the americans learned how to fight properly (for the time period) and were getting harder and harder to hold back or counter-invade.ajb924 said:
For us Americans, I'd say our two horrendously failed attempts to invade Canada, seriously, Canada defeated us in a war, sadness.
My notes are failing me, but as I recall, Imperial China sent a huge army down to down to cambodia, laos, or vietnam to put down a rebellion against the nobles down there due to the fear that such a rebellion would spread to their commoners. End of story is not only does the rebel army spank the chinese force easily ten times its size using guerilla tactics still in employ today, but, the leader of the rebellion had all the ears cut off the enemy troops and sent the ears all to the emperor of China as a 'tribute'.
If that isn't a embarassment and just a plain old *****-slap, I don't know what is.
If that isn't a embarassment and just a plain old *****-slap, I don't know what is.
Operation Barbarossa - The Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union during WWII.
Though the Nazi's only lost a quarter of the troops (250,000 killed, 500,000 wounded) compared to the Soviet Union (800,000 killed, 3,000,000 wounded), they were ultimately rebuffed by the end of this 6 month campaign.
Though the Nazi's only lost a quarter of the troops (250,000 killed, 500,000 wounded) compared to the Soviet Union (800,000 killed, 3,000,000 wounded), they were ultimately rebuffed by the end of this 6 month campaign.
No way, the Spartans had a geographic advantage so immense that they could have held out there forever if they had more reinforcements. They could have put a halt to the Persain invasions right there if they held out longer, more important (and humiliating) would have been Salamis where Greece's miniscule fleet layed waste to most of Persia's.Obrien Xp said:
As previously said The Somme
HAY GUIZE LETS SEND ALOT OF SOLDIERS TO SUICEDE CHARGE FOR 5 MONTHS
KAY THAT SOUNDSSMART
And the winter War
HAY GUIZE LETS SEND ALOT OF SOLDIERS TO SUICEDE CHARGE FOR 5 MONTHS
KAY THAT SOUNDSSMART
And the winter War
Watterlou anyone...
Anyway, Stalingrad was a bit of a dumbass manovor by Hitler, the only fucking reason why he invaded it was because it had the name Stalin in it, thats it, a name, a mother fucking name cost millions of lives. He could have sent those forces to the oil fields to the west ( I think it was oil fields), but nooooo, he had to split that force in half and condem everyone and everything to death.
Anyway, Stalingrad was a bit of a dumbass manovor by Hitler, the only fucking reason why he invaded it was because it had the name Stalin in it, thats it, a name, a mother fucking name cost millions of lives. He could have sent those forces to the oil fields to the west ( I think it was oil fields), but nooooo, he had to split that force in half and condem everyone and everything to death.
The battle of Stalingrad, of course, but one particular moment. There was one central location on top of a hill that overlooked the entire city, allowing for better intel and artillery spotting. Both sides took and lost the hill on almost a daily basis, and I read somewhere that at one point a Russian commander lost his entire unit of 10,000 men in less than 12 hours.
Just goes to show "If you wanna win, employ a Fin". That frase hasnt failed me yet.Left4Meds said:Seeing this makes me think Finland could do whatever the fuck they want.Mr.Tea said: