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Could be that they picked the Vergina Sun symbol because it's associated with a region of northern Greece near Achilles' home, or even because it is generally associated with Alexander the Great who...

I don't see why they should (or even could) base factions around the most iconic and popular heroes when 3K showed that they can have hero characters without them being their own faction. Ajax the...

History Channel isn't known for its rigorous research standards, these are the same people who run the Ancient Aliens program and if you believe in that stuff then I have a bridge to sell you. What...

Sure they hated Diem and all, but AFAIK the majority of South Vietnamese weren't sympathetic to the communists, it's just that Diem was an autocratic :wub: who inexplicably thought that...

1. I'm pretty sure that's a myth, I've never seen anything substantial to back that up and I've heard more reliable sources say that the majority of our language, particularly basic words most likely...

The Normans themselves weren't very often archers, at least not the Anglo-Norman upper class. The archers fighting the Irish were typically English or especially Welsh. The Saxons were not unfamiliar...

This one's a relatively often asked question but I'm not sure it's been done here yet, at least in any great detail. But what if the English under Harold Godwinson defeated William the Bastard at the...

Seeing as nobody's mentioned anything in American history yet, I'll put forth the Battle of Gettysburg. One of the most famous battles to ever occur in North America, and certainly the most famous of...

As far as television representations of Hannibal go, the last one I saw was from some BBC program casting Alexander Siddig (left) in the role and I don't think he was a bad fit:...

I blame the wonder that is Western historiography. What did the Almoravids or Almohads have to do with the Roman Empire? Even the actual European nations and civlizations most white people in America...

I wouldn't call a comparison of the Viet Cong to the Khmer Rouge to be entirely ridiculous. While there was certainly a major difference of scale and extent (as well as the fact that the VC were...

Why bother making a thread when this already exists: a speech by Alexander Stephens, Vice President of the CSA, on the issue of secession.

In any case, I tire of replying to your posts since...

They didn't force many blacks into service, there were enough racists up north that they didn't trust black people to fight if they didn't volunteer. And I don't recall anything about people being...

A few black people willingly fought for the South for whatever reason. Their numbers paled in comparison to the black Southerners fighting for the Union. Hell, there probably many more times white...

I feel the experience of Solomon Northup is relevant here. The most extraordinary thing about his harrowing ordeal is that he wrote and published a book about it (that was later adapted into a major...

There's also the other famous bit of German diplomatic ineptitude with the Zimmerman Telegram, wherein Zimmerman suggests the ambassador to Mexico suggests the Mexican president to invade America...

Are there no venomous snakes in the area? I'm reminded of that legend about the death of Oleg the Seer, a prince of the Rus who supposedly died when a snake crawled from his horse's skull and bit...

There was one or two units of Tuaregs, which was cool.

Many thanks, in spite of all the very alien-sounding names being thrown at me it does feel like I have a much greater understanding of Hunnic history now. :thumbsup2

Paragraphs are a thing, you know.

To me it looks like you're trying to cherry pick examples that sanitize the reality of the Civil War and indeed all wars while also glossing over the very real reason it was started in the first...

Until the end the Confederates steadfastly refused to extend the same standards of honor they would show to most Union soldiers or civilians to people who happened to have a different skin color from...

Going by a very pale definition of the word "honor", maybe.

Jesus, is that really all you took from this? You sound like a conspiracy theorist. But please, allow Vice President of the Confederate States of America Alexander Stephens speak for his own cause,...

I think it prescient to quote here a part of a letter from Union general David Hunter to Confederate President Jefferson Davis after the issuing of Davis's General Orders No. 60 calling for the...

Oops, I don't why I said he was from North Carolina, but Knight was actually from Jones County, Mississippi. My bad. Apparently, after the war he also led a regiment of black soldiers to defend the...

This latest spiel I've got from The Civil War by Geoffrey C Ward, Ric Burns, and Ken Burns, and I am realizing just now that it's apparently a companion piece to the famous documentary series of the...

I've been perusing a good book I've left unread far too long on the Civil War and another relevant topic was brought up therein I forgot to mention here, but regardless how how competent or skilled...

A bit off-topic, but another dream I had, and a bit more unrealistic than hoping Hollywood would stop pretending we'd ignore the fact that Egyptians weren't blonde if they spoke with British accents,...

The American Civil War is a sterling example of how the statement "victors write the history books" is patently false. For a long time, narratives on the civil war have been either dominated by...

They did also have the Romans in The Eagle speaking with American accents whereas the Britons talked British, but of course the Romans still did not look very Italian at all. :tongue: (Of course some...

Not surprising the historic sources wouldn't describe them in such a way, considering they wouldn't have used modern(ish) northern-European-derived ideas of race. The Egyptians were, more or less,...

Ain't treason when you win. And the American colonists had more legitimate grievances than the Southern plantation owners, legitimate enough that a great many people even in Britain sympathized with...

I'm a Southerner by birth and the rebel flag in your avatar is in fact a traitor's flag. Well, technically that specific version wasn't used in any official capacity by the CSA, though it closely...

If you're thinking about the Star Spangled Banner, that was about the siege of Fort McHenry by British troops in the War of 1812, but the fort never fell. The Brits did take and burn Washington...

It's a testament to the skills of Lost Cause propaganda that the southern war effort is so commended and admired. The North made its fair share of blunders that stretched the war out, but the South,...

Looked more like African wild dogs to me, though I should probably check again, they do look similar to hyenas and both species inhabit Ethiopia. In any case, I'm highly interested in Axum at least.

HUNS!!!11!

Okay, sorry, I'll try not to do the whole deep breathing thing but I've always wanted to see a mod do a revamped and more historical looking (and therefore better-looking) Huns for...

There's Huns in the Bucelarii I've noticed.

Legio V Macedonia! (Okay, I did have to google the Notitia Dignitatum...)