My one: Chetan Sharma in last ball of 1986 Cricket Australasia Cup trying to give yorker to Javed Miyandad insted of bowling a regular ball..
History Discussion: "You blew it! You had one job, and you blew it!" Moments in history
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"The horse would make a FINE burnt offering!" <Brings torch as night falls>
"What is that screaming?"
"Spirits of the dead..."
Ney at Bautzen? Ney in March 1815 (did he even bring an iron cage with him?) Ney at Quatre-Bras?
Welp, you won't be killed by the Greeks. What Poseidon, who sent sea serpents after the last guy who objected to bringing the horse in, is going to do to you is an entire other matter...
Italy joining WW2. Even an Axis victory would in the end suck for the Italian fascist - you dream of the Roman Empire, but beyond the Alpes someone dreams of Germanic hordes that destroyed the Roman Empire.
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All the Germans gangsta until an Italian boy named Mario is born in the town of Arpino.
Yes he did, but he blew it by choosing suboptimal life choices that he should have rethought.
Technically it was Fere who provoked the Zulus.
And to be fair, he was more worried they'd do a runner and deny him any combat, vs a all out attack.
That said, you forgot leaving ambiguous instructions for his officers, and being fairly out of contact, and then when you start getting messages along the lines of "For God's sake come back, the camp is surrounded, and things I fear are going badly", and not returning until way later....
Anyway, my contribution-
Woodrow Wilson-Paris 1919
Just like..... everything. Maybe listen to the waiter who has some interesting ideas? Maybe not shaft the Japanese to appease California, and then to make up for it, sell China down the river? Hell, make it a bipartisan mission rather then you loading it with Democrats and acting surprised when the Senate, who ratify treaties, IE, something you should've known, and possessing a slender Republican majority, holds a bit of a grudge over your decision.
Gunnbjörn Ulfsson deciding not to land on the strange landmass he sighted while out sailing one day. A certain fellow named Erik asked him a few questions, bought his boat, and went down in history as the man who founded Greenland, while Gunnbjörn Ulfsson got to spend history as the guy who chickened out of founding a country.
Francis I of France not scoring a decisive victory immediately during his invasion of Lombardy in 1524, even though he had an enormous numerical advantage. He instead wasted several months besieging Pavia while the Habsburg troops reorganized themselves for a counterattack, which ended with him being captured. Also, during the battle in question Francis led a cavalry charge right in front of his artillery, forcing them to hold their fire and negating one of the only strengths he had left at that point.
Nah, Hitler had terrible paintings, the shading was horrendous
I feel like we can make a whole separate thread of just guys who made bad decisions during the Italian Wars.