Your favorite battle from the Modern Age (1453-1789)

The Portuguese conquest reads like a bad novel with cheesy one liners.

Like when the Persian sent an embassy to Hormux to collect tribute and Albuquerque sent back canon balls and spears saying those were the only tribute they would ever pay.

Or Duarte Pacheico Perreira defending Cochin against an army 100 times his own forces and defeated them so badly the enemy king became a monk.
You can't make that shit up

The one liners weren't that cheesy!! Well, if we are honest, I do have to admit that, they were a bit...:p

I had no idea that the guy became a monk afterwards! You really can't make this shit up. It's just like the guy that had powder for one more shot, but no bullets and decided to remove a tooth just to fire one last time and the guys attacking him shitted themselves because they thought he was out of ammunition.
 
The one liners weren't that cheesy!! Well, if we are honest, I do have to admit that, they were a bit...:p

I had no idea that the guy became a monk afterwards! You really can't make this shit up. It's just like the guy that had powder for one more shot, but no bullets and decided to remove a tooth just to fire one last time and the guys attacking him shitted themselves because they thought he was out of ammunition.
Seriously? Which one was that?

As a patriot, I'll also nominate Valmy, due to the weight it carries in French history!

The Republic and its people rose up and stomped on Europe. Let us free you or you'll be shot!
 
Seriously? Which one was that?

As a patriot, I'll also nominate Valmy, due to the weight it carries in French history!

The Republic and its people rose up and stomped on Europe. Let us free you or you'll be shot!

An unknown soldier during the second Siege of Diu, if I'm not mistaken. Funny enough it were the Dutch that reported about this, with a Dutch priest learning about the story and being the one to report it in Europe, don't know if it's true or not but it does sound too WTF to be made up.
 
Nördlingen (1634) was one of the greatest Hapsburg victories during the Thirty Years' War (yay, go Hapsburgs!).

Dettingen (1743) gave us one of Handel's greatest pieces of music (and therefore one of the greatest pieces of music, period).

Poltava (1709), because it happened on my birthday.
 
Just found a new one -- Cartagena de Indias (1741)!
Had the british won the battle, i'm confident that they could have captured Florida, Cuba, and some pretty important ports on the coast of the Caribbean.
 
No love for Barfleur-La Hogue 1692? To adopt the approach of 1066 and All That, this was the cause of Rule Britannia and was therefore a Good Thing;
Plassey 1759 - probably would have been better for Britain (and maybe, though not necessarily, for India) if we'd lost this one;
And the Siege of Malta takes some beating.
 
An unknown soldier during the second Siege of Diu, if I'm not mistaken. Funny enough it were the Dutch that reported about this, with a Dutch priest learning about the story and being the one to report it in Europe, don't know if it's true or not but it does sound too WTF to be made up.
Yeah, it doesn't even have a moral lesson like a fable beyond "Portuguese are crazy motherfuckers" which seems odd for Dutch to spread
 
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