It's indeed the battle of Grand Port (in this picture, we can see HMS Sirius having her ass kicked by our, noble and rther Imperial frigates). It may be the only naval battle, during the Napoleonic...
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It's indeed the battle of Grand Port (in this picture, we can see HMS Sirius having her ass kicked by our, noble and rther Imperial frigates). It may be the only naval battle, during the Napoleonic...
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He has already begun.
But seriously, a bit of respect never harmed anybody.
And be careful, I still remember your dirty laundry in the "CA, you got the gypsies wrong thread".:shifty:
Great!...
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It's the battle of Curupayty, the most significant victory of Paraguay, during the war with Argentina and Brazil (basically a genocide of the Paraguayan people).
I had actually posted it a couple of...
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We have a winner here!
The picture depicts the last wooden ship of the line of the Austrian Empire, Kaiser, ramming the Italian ironclad Re di Portogallo. The sideburns were a reference to the...
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It pretty much gave it away. I had just read about it, in the second page of our local newspaper.:P
http://s29.postimg.org/s0dlwnvdj/Ha_Wood_sails_never_said_their_last_word_you_m.jpg...
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You probably mean the second battle of Zaragoza, don't you?
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Chronologically close, but geographically not so close...
Correct! Well, they owed us a couple of pesos, so we, the poor superpower, were obliged to bombard them. Difficult days for overseas ...
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Huraaaah!
but it was easy...
Anyway, since the general consensus apparently prefers naval battles, here it's why you should pay your debts to our beautiful motherland:shifty::...
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That must be the battle of...Actium!
