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Washington got word that a French-Canadian column was approaching his garrison, so he got some of his own men and headed to Jumonville Glenn, where they waited in ambush.
Invasion of the Italian Peninsula, which included Rome itself being besieged on several occasions starting in 784 and in 846 being successful breached and sacked, only to be defeated by a Christian Army at the Battle of Ostia in 855 during a subsequent assault on the city
But as his colleague Talleyrand once remarked “I do not like unlucky people!”
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ALLIED WAR CRIMES DURING THE SECOND WORLD WAR
Invading the Rhine Region in the north had not been the Corsican-born French Emperor’s first choice.
In the centuries before the First Crusade, much of mainland Europe had already been annexed by Muslim nations through military force, including:
In the morning hours of May 28, 1754, the unit attacked Coulon’s oblivious troops and quickly wiped them out — reportedly killing many of them as they begged for their life, including Coulon himself.
It is also full of whats? due to the number of subjects and topics that deserve recognition, yet are largely forgotten to the abyss of history.
Some of these victims even reportedly danced on even after their own demise, which may have brought about the Chinese mythological creature known as the Jiangshi — or ‘Hopping Vampire’, which also moved about in a similar way as a deceased victim of the Dancing Plague.
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ARAB SLAVE TRADE
Meanwhile, the Arab Slave Trade — while less studied and documented than its more infamous counterpart — may very well have dwarfed the Atlantic Slave Trade in scale.
And even before then, Napoleon had two consecutive days of bad luck that could have easily turned the Waterloo campaign around.
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Ukraine quickly fell, as would other smaller nations, such as Georgia, Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Kazakhstan.
A great misconception about the Second World War is that it was a conflict between “good and evil”.
Only in 2002 did this close-call decision become publicly known after Soviet documents pertaining to this incident were declassified.
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History is full of what ifs.
More often than not, these people would eventually die from a combination of shock, fatigue, and dehydration.
A major volcanic eruption, possibly at Mount Krakatoa in Indonesia, Mount Ilopango in El Salvador, or an unidentified volcano somewhere in Iceland
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The number of people who were lobotomised in the United States between 1890–1973 is unknown, but is generally believed to be between 50,000–100,000 official cases, plus twice as many “unregistered” cases, with around 150,000 others officially sterilised — the real number is probably much higher.
The Baltic States of Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania, plus Finland, also nearly fell, but were able to survive after forming their own coalition.
In fact, despite all the obstacles placed against him, Napoleon Bonaparte came very close to re-securing his throne.
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Enraged at the discovery, the French-Canadians proceeded to place Fort Necessity itself under siege, where George Washington was forced to surrender on July 3, 1754 — and was only permitted to do so on the condition that he sign a treaty acknowledging in (French) writing that the death of Joseph Coulon was an “assassination”, which Washington himself later objected.
These are usually the subjects for which much is known about.
Similar findings have been discovered among those of the Arab Slave Trade, with mortality rates possibly even higher than those involved in the Atlantic Slave Trade, due to the more brutal treatment of captives, which included physical castration upon capture — a fate that was mostly absent among Atlantic-bound captives — as well as being placed in cargo ships that were even less sanitary and comfortable than Atlantic slaves.
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Naples formally sided with him, and even Switzerland nearly did so, out of hatred against the Austrians.
In films, televisions, and schools, students are made to know about the crimes of the Germans, Japanese, and even Italians.
Poland nearly fell in August 1920 to the troops under twenty-seven-year-old Mikhail Tukhachevsky, but was able to triumph during the Battle of Warsaw and forced the Red Army back with as many as 90% casualties — dead, wounded, and captured.
How might history have differed had even one of these above events played in Napoleon’s favour?
In the most extreme cases, people would be taken away by their dancing affliction to a foreign land, where nobody understood their language.
On the first day (June 16, 1815), he successfully defeated the Prussians at the Battle of Ligny while Michel Ney defeated the British at Quatre-Bras.
DANCING PLAGUES
After several minutes this idea was aborted once it was realised that Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev was in New York City at the time attending a United Nations meeting, and would therefore have been very unlikely to order a nuclear attack while in a vulnerable position.
Deciding that the Prussians and British were more likely to push on with an Austrian-Russian loss than the opposite — Russia and Austria had nearly declared war on each other before Napoleon’s escape — it was decided at the last moment to carry out the Waterloo campaign.
If Poland had fallen, Lenin would have sent a second Red Army stationed near Hungary — which had also fallen to a puppet regime under Bela Kun — to invade Italy with none other than Joseph Stalin himself in charge.
Yet for some reason, it landed in a nearby swamp.
The first bomb was never in danger of exploding, due to “safety” features, but declassified reports later found that the “safety” features on the second bomb failed.
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By the 1920s, around half of American states had legalised it — interestingly, those we view today as more “Democratic” such as California and New York, were likely to practice it, while those viewed as “Republican”, such as Texas, were less likely to follow suit (note that Texas had in fact briefly legalised eugenics laws, only for it to be overturned almost as quickly as it was introduced).
Another example occurred on January 24, 1961, when an American B-52 bomber broke up in mid-air with two nuclear bombs — each of them 200 times more powerful than the one dropped on Hiroshima — falling out of the sky heading for Goldsboro, North Carolina.
EUGENICS
Denmark in particular was estimated to have lobotomised and sterilised its citizens at a whopping rate three times greater than the United States per capita.
Scientists and clergymen alike tried to find a solution to these phenomena, with the former suggesting that playing music around the victims would help, while the latter encouraged the victims to bring themselves before the altar of Saint Vitus and flog themselves as a form of penance.
CAUSES OF THE CRUSADES
Both sides began complaining that the other side was encroaching on their territorial rights.
When the French-Canadians failed to return for weeks after their mission was supposed to have ended, a far larger Canadian column of six hundred men under Louis Coulon de Villiers — older brother of the slain Joseph Coulon — came upon the site of the unburied men.
Other civilizations were badly impacted, including the Western regions of what had recently been part of the Roman Empire, which never recovered and collapsed shortly thereafter into a centuries’-long “Dark Ages”.
Though many states refused to practice it, the only jurisdiction in the United States before around 1950 to make it a criminal offence to engage in forcible sterilisation, lobotomy, or other eugenics-type behaviour, was the State of New Jersey, which had also been a proponent early on, only to adopt a complete reversal in its policies sometime during the 1930s.
Modern traditional estimates are that around 12,500,000 Africans were sent across the North Atlantic for a lifetime of servitude in the Americas over a span of approximately three centuries.
On most other ships, the submarine captain alone could make this decision, but in the case of this crew, the junior officers also got their say.
This could not be further from the truth.
We hear about the second, more successful Communist stronghold over Europe between 1945–1991.
On other occasions, leaders on both sides of the world, including Jimmy Carter on one end, and even Boris Yeltsin had to be alerted at a moment’s notice when radars picked up a potential nuclear strike against them.
In the West, the Atlantic Slave Trade is often talked about.
Discussions were made as to whether or not American military authorities should be alerted for a possible response.
Strangely in the case of Boris Yeltsin, this incident happened after the official end of the Cold War, and despite some of his officers urging him to use the “black case”, Yeltsin chose to wait and see if the warning was legitimate.
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WEATHER EVENTS OF 537
Why the Dancing Plagues went away is not known, though the Tanganyika Laughter Epidemic of 1962, in which thousands of children were subjected to long-term contagious laughter — fortunately with non-lethal consequences — has led some to believe that the biological causes behind Dance Mania has finally evolved into another manifestation that is surely to reveal itself at some unspecified point in the future.
An asteroid or comet colliding with the Earth, and possibly even created the Gulf of Carpentaria in northern Australia
The invasion of Sicily, which began in 827 and ended in 902 when the last Christian strongholds capitulated
GEORGE WASHINGTON IGNITING THE SEVEN YEARS’ WAR
Around late 535 to early 536, a natural disaster was believed to have taken place on Earth.
Eugenics is often depicted as a Nazi aberration.
The Iberian Peninsula in 711 and much of southern France in the following two decades
During the Cold War we actually evaded a few close nuclear disasters.
From around 1530–1780, as many as two million Europeans survived to become permanent captives of the “Arab Slave Trade”, in addition to the at least fourteen million Africans who were similarly enslaved during the same period.
Obviously, the list would be too long to name them all in this type of answer, so I will highlight some of the more notable example:
The concept of sterilisation has been around for millennia in the form of castration.
The following year, during the Cuban Missile Crisis, a Soviet crew was voting on whether to fire a nuclear torpedo after being ordered to surface by the American navy.
To be certain, not all of those captured in the “Arab Slave Trade” were specifically destined to the modern geographical terrain of Saudi Arabia, but rather, is a term reflecting the realities of non-Muslim Africans being captured and enslaved not only by Middle Easterners, but also by northeastern Africans with Islamic backgrounds.
Regardless of its origins, by 537, the after-effects of this disaster was resulting in frozen crops during the summer, and year-round winter seasons that went unabated on every corner of the globe.
In 1754, a young Major George Washington was assigned with the construction of Fort Necessity near modern-day Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States, where a French-Canadian base known as Fort Duquesne was also being erected.
NAPOLEON’S ONE HUNDRED DAYS
NEAR ARMAGEDDON
On the second day, the Duke of Wellington unwillingly allowed his army to rest at Genappe at the pincer movement of Napoleon and Ney’s forces, and had the French begun their attack — as Napoleon and Ney had hoped to do — Wellington would have been forced into a disadvantageous battle, and it is likely that the British role in the campaign would have ended before reaching Waterloo.
One day the French-Canadian side had enough and dispatched a messenger under the command of Joseph Coulon to head to Fort Necessity with sixty men to settle negotiations.
In Germany, the story of the Pied Piper of Hamelin taking away hundreds of children is not only a story of literature likely inspired from one such outbreak in the early thirteenth century, it may even be based on historical events, according to historians who have found contemporary records of a man who was accused of kidnapping dancing children in much the same way as the book portrayed.
Dancing plagues have been recorded as far back as 1,500 years in countries throughout Europe, Asia, Africa, and even the Americas.
Germany was also plunged into revolution around the end of the First World War — quite possibly at Lenin’s behest — which would cause strong anti-communist resentment to fuel up and manifest itself in the form of the National German Workers’ Party (Nazi Party).
As many as four million additional Africans originally destined for shipment to the Americas died before reaching ports, which could bring the number of Atlantic Slave Trade deportees closer to sixteen or seventeen million.
One of those men was thirty-six-year-old Vasily Arkhipov, who believed it unnecessary.
All told, the size of the “Arab Slave Trade” almost certainly outsized the “Atlantic Slave Trade” by at least fifty percent, and may be even greater if the belief that captives in the former were more likely to die from the conditions of their captivity than in the latter is to be proven conclusive.
Postwar colonial repressions — following the “liberation” of mainland Europe, a new scramble was made to reclaim their old colonial possessions, with the Netherlands waging a new bloody war in Indonesia, the British in Malaysia, the Belgians in Congo, and the French in places such as Vietname, Sudan, and Algiers — in a twist of complete irony, the French triggered a massacre at Setif and Guelma, resulting in the loss of 6,000–30,000 lives, and all because the European French refused to allow the African Legions to participate in the VE-DAY Celebrations, because in their view, liberation only applied to French nationals, not their colonial subjects
Flight and Expulsion of Germans after the Second World War — 500,000–3,000,000 Eastern Europeans with German ancestry are estimated to have died in the days, weeks, months, and years immediately following the Second World War when Stalin and other Eastern European leaders concluded that these people — many of whom had ancestry in the region dating back centuries — should no longer be there, and were deported with nothing but the clothes on their back in long forced marches — as it turned out, this was done with Winston Churchill’s personal approval
This plan was hindered by the National Assembly, which stipulated that he had to secure peace with a SINGLE campaign, otherwise he would be deposed by his own side.
The details of the event are not known, though geologists have suggested two possibilities:
In addition, the “Arab Slave Trade” did not only include Africans, but also Europeans.
One estimate is that during the days of the Atlantic Slave Trade, some six million Africans survived to be enslaved somewhere in northeastern Africa, while another eight million were deported to the Arabian Region.
This is largely scratching the surface, but even these three examples above I feel are worth discussing.
Either way, he returned to the American colonies a hero while the rest of the world reeled at the events that had unfolded at Jumonville Glenn until a conflagration that would ignite the first global war in recorded history — the Seven Years’ War — broke out.
Those who were afflicted would begin dancing about uncontrollably for days or even weeks on end without being able to stop themselves.
A heated exchange broke out between himself and his senior colleagues, though eventually the captain relented.
By the early 1600s, these cases began dying off all around the world, and in 1840, the last major outbreak was reported in Madagascar.
Other countries, including Canada, most European nations, and even the Soviet Union, all adopted similar laws, though not all of them at a nationwide level.
With the exception of the Carolingian Empire (880–887) there was not a single post-Roman nation in Western Europe that could match the civilizations in the Middle East and North Africa.
The most well-documented case of the Dancing Plague occurred in 1518 in Strasbourg, where anywhere between several hundred to several thousand people were afflicted with deadly consequences.
On October 5, 1960, Soviet missiles were detected approaching the United States from a radar base in Thule, Greenland.
More misfortunes came about in the form of Mount Tambora — a violent volcano that had erupted in April 1815 — unleashing torrents of rain that both hindered Napoleon’s geographical advances, and also delayed him on the day of the Battle of Mont-Saint Jean Ridge at Waterloo.
Forced deportation of Soviet refugees after the Second World War — some five million people, including women and children, were deported by force into Soviet territory after the Second World War, where anywhere between several hundred to one million were reportedly executed outright, and many more perishing in Soviet gulags and political prisons, all with the cooperation of the Americans and British
Only in 1973 were these programmes officially outlawed in the United States — 66 years after Indiana legalised it, and 28 years after Nazi Germany itself had been demolished.
A young American officer named Jack ReVelle was sent to investigate the bomb, and what he quickly found was that a single fuse had proven faulty — preventing the necessary chain reaction required to unleash a mushroom cloud of death over an urban American landscape.
Perhaps it is time we begin discussing the crimes of the victors.
This is complete nonsense.
In 1950, the Soviet Union became one of the first countries to “voluntarily” end the practice of eugenics after its introduction, for “humanitarian reasons”.
Suffice it to say, George Washington was to the eighteeth century what Gavrilo Princip would prove to be for the twentieth.
Ironically, the majority of these cases were recorded between 1935–1945 during the Nazi era, though it is unlikely that Hitler himself influenced the Americans to escalate what had already been a decades’-long practice.
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Though this era marked the end of proper record-keeping in many parts of the world for upwards of half a millennium, it is also worth noting that the Year 537 also happens to be the same year as the death of the legendary ‘King Arthur’ — likely a direct inspiration to the global phenomena that was by far the worst natural disaster in recorded human history.
As it was, both Ney and Napoleon expected the other to signal the start of the battle with the firing of their guns, giving the British nearly two hours to realise the immediate danger they were in and make good of their retreat.
The Comte D’Erlons — perhaps due to misunderstanding and poor communication among the French commanders — found himself walking back and forth all day, engaging in neither battle, and ultimately allowing the Prussians and British to escape in relatively good order.
Nothing could be further from the truth.
The Waterloo campaign was not an inevitable defeat for the French Army.
LENIN’S ATTEMPTED CONQUEST OF EUROPE
Perhaps quite understandably, the shortlived period of 1918–1921 has not captured the same interest, yet I feel that much as how the First World War brings greater context to the history of the Second World War, so too does understanding the motives and history of the First Soviet Empire bring better understanding to the Second Soviet Empire.
The first was to head west and secure his ally, Joachim Murat of Naples, and potentially knock out the Austrians and Russians before they had a chance of nearing his home front.
That is was so widespread and prevalent would make it difficult to argue that it was the result of cultural norms.
In the modern ages, eugenics as we understand it may actually have had its roots in late nineteenth century United States society, with the practice of forced sterilisations through injections, and even lobotomies becoming increasingly commonplace from around 1890 until it was formally legalised by the State of Indiana in 1907 — the first jurisdiction in the world to do so.
Unsurprisingly, neither solutions worked.
The war was in fact a coalition of empires serving their own purposes, with some coming out on top.
This misconception that the Crusades was a result of “religious fanatics” being willing to die by the thousands from diseases and plagues in a faraway land, as opposed to the defensive war that it actually was, may be regarded as “politically correct” in our day and age, but it is most certainly not historically correct.
Not long afterwards, President Theodore Roosevelt also called for the biological removal of those he viewed as “idiots” through artificial birth controllers and even called for this to be applied at the federal law, though this never materialised.
It might give us a new and more interesting perspective to the timelines of the Second World War and the mindsets that encompassed those who lived through it.
In fact, the war would last until early October, when the last defenders surrendered after being offered amnesty by King Louis XVIII of France, who promised them unconditional pardons, paying their service salaries, and offering each of them a piece of farmland according to their rank.
Most people imagine the Crusades — particularly those involving the Conquest of Jerusalem and the ‘Holy Lands’ — to be a form of early European colonialism against a group of less technologically advanced people.
Entire civilizations from South America to East Asia were annihilated.
Even after Waterloo, the French continued to fight on, defeating the French Royalist insurrection, and even defeating an Austrian Army of 40,000 by a French force half its size under Jean Rapp at the Battle of La Suffel — TEN DAYS after the loss at Waterloo.
The Byzantine Empire in southeastern Europe was the only “Christian” nation that could rival its Islamic adversaries, and even they came close to crumbling in the years leading up to 1095, following a series of military losses — most notably at the Battle of Manzikert in 1071.
Lenin not only fought the Russian Civil War in an attempt to Bolshevise Russia, he also made a very serious military attempt for the conquest of mainland Europe and large swathes of Asia.
As it turned out, it was a harmless test rocket.
Meanwhile, a major plague known as the ‘Plague of Justinian’ swept the European continent and possibly killed half the population in under a decade.