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If a historical battle was not decisive it's not worth studying, save time (NSAM
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Date: August 1st, 2026 12:02 AM Author: pungent home liquid oxygen there are about 30-ish battles that were decisive that we know a lot about, like Midway. That battle won the war. We know less about Poltava, but it won the war and made Sweden neutral forever. Poland and Lithuania at the Battle of Grunwald were decisive. They ended the war right there. Cortez in Tenochtitlan was also decisive. It was the end of the Aztecs. The Siege of Vienna was decisive in that the Ottomans never came back for round 2. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5888264&forum_id=2…id#50038311) |
Date: August 1st, 2026 12:03 AM Author: bonkers soul-stirring ape If a book hasn't been translated it isn't worth reading (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5888264&forum_id=2…id#50038315) |
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Date: August 1st, 2026 12:07 AM Author: pungent home liquid oxygen Not true for Latin. Scholars of these works just learn Latin, similar to how lawyers still use it. These people do their own translations in their heads and would never want to read someone else's translation. This is more of a European thing though, since it's easier for them to learn Latin. English speakers are always demanding English translations (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5888264&forum_id=2…id#50038321) |
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Date: August 1st, 2026 12:09 AM Author: bonkers soul-stirring ape Yeah, was in court yesterday and the whole trial proceeded in Latin. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5888264&forum_id=2…id#50038323) |
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Date: August 1st, 2026 12:11 AM Author: pungent home liquid oxygen The only English translations we have of most Latin works date back to the 18th century. To get a more modern translation, someone who writes good English would have to learn Latin, and that ain't happenin (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5888264&forum_id=2…id#50038329) |
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Date: August 1st, 2026 11:14 AM Author: cordovan mood bawdyhouse What are you talking about? They are constantly releasing new English translations of major works written in Latin. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5888264&forum_id=2…id#50038784) |
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Date: August 1st, 2026 11:51 AM Author: pungent home liquid oxygen "major works" he said as he moved the goalposts fast as fuck (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5888264&forum_id=2…id#50038845) |
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Date: August 1st, 2026 11:52 AM Author: cordovan mood bawdyhouse The Loeb series didn’t even start printing until 1912. Also if by most Latin you are including medieval and rennaissance shit most of that was never even translated at all or is just being translated now. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5888264&forum_id=2…id#50038849) |
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Date: August 1st, 2026 11:55 AM Author: pungent home liquid oxygen Thanks for the non sequitur (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5888264&forum_id=2…id#50038851) |
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Date: August 1st, 2026 12:11 AM Author: Balding floppy hominid voyeur This nsam guy is fuckin smart you guise wake up and pay attention to this smart poaster (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5888264&forum_id=2…id#50038331) |
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Date: August 1st, 2026 12:14 AM Author: pungent home liquid oxygen Here's a decisive battle. It happened in Canada but it won a major war in Europe:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_the_Plains_of_Abraham |
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Date: August 1st, 2026 12:15 AM Author: pungent home liquid oxygen This battle caused Japan to bomb Pearl Harbor several years later, because it made Japan unwilling to fight Russia ever again. They decided to fight for oil in SE Asia only because they thought it was safer than pushing for Sibera.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battles_of_Khalkhin_Gol |
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Date: August 1st, 2026 12:18 AM Author: pungent home liquid oxygen This battle did more to limit islamic expansion into Europe than the Battle of Tours. In fact it facilitated Europe's conquest of the seas by knocking the Ottomans out of the way. We forget that Muslims used to rule the seas
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Lepanto |
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Date: August 1st, 2026 12:21 AM Author: pungent home liquid oxygen This battle is the reason Jerusalem became and remains a majority muslim city. Birdshits were really stupid and got baited into a battle in the desert in July.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Hattin |
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Date: August 1st, 2026 12:24 AM Author: pungent home liquid oxygen Gerard de Ridefort however advised Guy to advance against Saladin, and Guy took his advice. Norman Housley suggests that that was because "the minds of both men had been so poisoned by the political conflict 1180-1187 that they could only see Raymond's advice as designed to bring them personal ruin" and also because he had spent Henry II of England's donations in calling the army and was reluctant to disband it without a battle.[22] That was a gamble on Guy's part, as he had left only a few knights to defend the city of Jerusalem.[23] (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5888264&forum_id=2…id#50038361) |