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7/23/2025, 3:26:00 PM
You faggots whine all day about how shit /his/ and then never make good threads, so get to it
ITT: obscure figures who changed history
>picrelated
>holds up with his men in a local mansion at Germantown, PA when Washington and co. attempt to spring a surprise attack on Clinton
>somehow it works and the Brits go running
>Washington and co. spot the house, see it's occupied
>fucking Henry Knox convinces Washington they need to take the mansion lest they "leave a castle in their rear"
>everybody else insists George just leave a handful of men to take the Brits should they try to leave the house
>"nah fuck that, bring up the cannon!" - Washington
>they only fire at the one side of the house that is solid Pennyslvania rock, two feet thick
>literally waste men's lives trying to bumrush the doors and start fires
>all get their knees blown out like Sam Jackson in Django by the Brits in the basement
>instead of giving up the mansion Washington keeps at it
>so much so that now his men are turning back from chasing the Brits because of the continued cannon fire in their rear
>this whole affair turns Washington's advantage into a disaster
>Battle of Germantown becomes a stalemate when it should have been a Saratoga-tier victory for the Rebels
>all because of picrel spawn camping
ITT: obscure figures who changed history
>picrelated
>holds up with his men in a local mansion at Germantown, PA when Washington and co. attempt to spring a surprise attack on Clinton
>somehow it works and the Brits go running
>Washington and co. spot the house, see it's occupied
>fucking Henry Knox convinces Washington they need to take the mansion lest they "leave a castle in their rear"
>everybody else insists George just leave a handful of men to take the Brits should they try to leave the house
>"nah fuck that, bring up the cannon!" - Washington
>they only fire at the one side of the house that is solid Pennyslvania rock, two feet thick
>literally waste men's lives trying to bumrush the doors and start fires
>all get their knees blown out like Sam Jackson in Django by the Brits in the basement
>instead of giving up the mansion Washington keeps at it
>so much so that now his men are turning back from chasing the Brits because of the continued cannon fire in their rear
>this whole affair turns Washington's advantage into a disaster
>Battle of Germantown becomes a stalemate when it should have been a Saratoga-tier victory for the Rebels
>all because of picrel spawn camping
7/10/2025, 6:42:21 PM
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>completely destroys your offensive that took Howe by surprise and could have led to a massive victory on par with Saratoga
>does so by just camping in a stone house
>said house could have been easily blown to bits but instead the Contintentals amassed their fire on the front, the only part of the house that was two feet of solid Pennyslvania stone
>tried shooting through the windows, but as rumor has it, the balls just flew out the opposite window and landed among their own troops
>John Witherspoon's son gets his head blown off by one such ricocheting ball
>all because Washington listened to the bookworm-turned-general, that fat fucker Knox about "not leaving le castle in le rear, your Excellency"
>ignoring all other advice that a handful of men could be left to sniper the Brits should they try to leave
Germantown really showcased what a fucking retard George could be. It's as if he never learned a single fucking lesson at any point during the war until Von Stueben and Rochembeau finally came along and saved the whole affair
>completely destroys your offensive that took Howe by surprise and could have led to a massive victory on par with Saratoga
>does so by just camping in a stone house
>said house could have been easily blown to bits but instead the Contintentals amassed their fire on the front, the only part of the house that was two feet of solid Pennyslvania stone
>tried shooting through the windows, but as rumor has it, the balls just flew out the opposite window and landed among their own troops
>John Witherspoon's son gets his head blown off by one such ricocheting ball
>all because Washington listened to the bookworm-turned-general, that fat fucker Knox about "not leaving le castle in le rear, your Excellency"
>ignoring all other advice that a handful of men could be left to sniper the Brits should they try to leave
Germantown really showcased what a fucking retard George could be. It's as if he never learned a single fucking lesson at any point during the war until Von Stueben and Rochembeau finally came along and saved the whole affair
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