An English king named Ethelred, later called the Unready, took some troops to defend against a Viking invasion.
The weather was bad, so a lot of the Vikings’ ships crashed as they were landing. Ethelred thought that it would be dishonourable to attack them as they were stumbling onto shore, so he kept his troops back until the Vikings had a chance to get together and form proper battle lines before he attacked them. The better prepared Vikings then won the fight and slaughtered a bunch of Ethelred’s men and he and the rest were forced to run away while the Vikings went around pillaging.
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Exie 3 year s ago
#15 Kazimierz Piechowski. The story is retold in Auschwitz Inside the Nazi State- Factories of Death and the 2007 film The Runaway.
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Ginny 3 year s ago
#12 the story is even better. First of all, both ships in this story, the caramania and the german Kap Trafalgar, were cruise ships and only armed with guns after the war began. Therefore, both ships couldn't fight real warships and decided to disguise themselves as enemy ships. The kap trafalgar as the caramania and the caramania as kap trafalgar. The first enemy vessel they met was a ship that looked like they were supposed to look. They fought each other and the caramania won.
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Belle 3 year s ago
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Oh nice "historical facts" about this a$$&073 again. Doesn't know the Geneva Convention, doesn't know the Hague Conventions. Not a hero, just a sadist, a war criminal and war monger. British prisoners of war never was inmates in concentration camp just in camps for POVs.
Oh nice "historical facts" about this a$$&073 again. Doesn't know the Geneva Convention, doesn't know the Hague Conventions. Not a hero, just a sadist, a war criminal and war monger. British prisoners of war never was inmates in concentration camp just in camps for POVs.
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Eben 3 year s ago
Belle,
ye he was a c#nt.
ye he was a c#nt.
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Antonia 3 year s ago
war...what is it good for?
Oh nice "historical facts" about this a$$&073 again. Doesn't know the Geneva Convention, doesn't know the Hague Conventions. Not a hero, just a sadist, a war criminal and war monger. British prisoners of war never was inmates in concentration camp just in camps for POVs.
ye he was a c#nt.