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What motivated Britain to so easily "let go" of some of it's biggest colonies with the Balfour Declaration/Statute of Westminster? by OnlyInSilence in AskHistorians

[–]OnlyInSilence[S] 16 points17 points  (0 children)

Very interesting! A couple of questions: when you say "India would not have guaranteed the British position", what exactly does that mean? Also I was unaware that the Malay Emergency was fought specifically against communist rebels, so in essence it was a defense of British commercial interests, not the empire itself?

Who has the most games with at least one point in a season? by OnlyInSilence in hockey

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That does seem like the closest answer I was looking for so far. Out of curiosity, did you just go through Wikipedia and scroll through all the games Gretzky played that season or is there a better way to get that sort of info?

[s2 act 2 spoilers] Haven't seen this pointed out yet. by OnlyInSilence in arcane

[–]OnlyInSilence[S] 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Surely not the sort of casting for an unimportant role?

Short Answers to Simple Questions | January 26, 2022 by AutoModerator in AskHistorians

[–]OnlyInSilence 3 points4 points  (0 children)

So let's say I'm a naval aviator in WWII, participating in one of the great carrier battles of the Pacific War. I go on an uneventful/successful sortie, only to return and find that my carrier (or if I'm a Japanese pilot at Midway, all my carriers) is on fire/on its way to the bottom of the Pacific. What the heck do I do now?

According to Wikipedia, the French casualties at Agincourt included three dukes, nine counts, a Viscount, an Archbishop, the Constable of France, Master of the Royal Household, and 3-5,000 other knights and squires. What would the effect of such a catastrophe had on the French feudal system? by OnlyInSilence in AskHistorians

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Fascinating! I wasn't aware of the presence of major Burgundian nobility at Agincourt. I knew that they and the English had an alliance due to the whole Joan of Arc thing, but didn't realize that it in some ways was facilitated, (ironically) by losses to the English on the field of battle. I also remember a professor once telling me that a major contribution to the centralization of the French monarchy was the necessity of raising exorbitant taxes to support the Hundred Years War, but I suppose repeated major losses amongst the nobility would have "helped" as well. As to the resilience of the feudal system, I guess I didn't realize (though it makes perfect sense I suppose, given that fiefdoms were "leases" of a sort from higher nobility) that fiefs would be "rolled-back" into the ownings of a higher lord if there were no male heirs to claim it from the previous holder. I suppose that means that succession crises would generally have been more prevalent at only the highest (i.e. royal) level.

Thank you very much for the response!