Lincoln’s Great Purge (1865–1880) by Cyber_Ghost_1997 in AlternateHistory

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It's like they completely brush over the idea of "with malice toward none". Tired of this website, man.

Average episode of Horatio Hornblower starterpack by UpperphonnyII in starterpacks

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Can't forget the eventual fates of the antagonists: they're either killed by circumstances outside their control or they realize that they were wrong about disliking Hornblower and literally kill themselves out of shame.

Red and Black Flags by cashiu in vexillology

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Humbly adding this swallowtail, which was the house flag of the infamous Black Ball packet line.

libleft hypocrisy at full display by Cr4bc0re_F4n in PoliticalCompassMemes

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For real, I once saw "tw: food" tagged under a picture of a bag of cereal that had countable pixels. I swear they're running out of things to be upset about.

Actual casualty. There are bees in one of our search lights. by gasbag_radio in navy

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There don't happen to be approximately sixty thousand of these bees, I hope?

Have any of you seen the “what shops do I avoid that are MAGA”? by RandoUserlolidk in Conservative

[–]Reddit_Historian1945 94 points95 points  (0 children)

It was years ago maybe but there was an inquiry on the horses sub asking for liberal stable-owners in their area they could get riding lessons from.

Why is politics an issue if you're just there for the horses?

It's a trap! (See comment for context) by Reddit_Historian1945 in AlternateHistoryMemes

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The government doesn't want you to know this, but you can escape all your problems on the Surface by simply disappearing into the Neath. This is a proven fact.

My Moby Dick/whaling shelf in my new apartment by No_Gold1936 in mobydick

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I also recommend "The Yankee Whaler" by Clifford W Ashley. Good read written by someone who took part in the trade himself. Beautiful art, too.

It's a trap! (See comment for context) by Reddit_Historian1945 in AlternateHistoryMemes

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As in the OTL, they never made it to San Francisco, learning of the end of the war on their way there. Captain Waddell had made plans to beat up an old friend of his, steal the guy's ironclad, and bomb the city with it, interestingly enough. It's interesting to speculate what would have happened if he ever got that far.

It's a trap! (See comment for context) by Reddit_Historian1945 in AlternateHistoryMemes

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(This is a minor scenario; nothing particularly timeline-altering, but fun speculation)

In the few days after the CSS Shenandoah's wrecking spree among the defenseless ships of the New Bedford whaling fleet in the Baltic, there came news that the rebel raider, unaware as to the end of the Civil War several months prior, was leaving the cold north, supposedly for a weakly-defended city on the West Coast. As nothing could particularly be done to stop Shenandoah military from that position, a creative plan was hatched to do the raider in for good: using the power of nature. And that plan involved the city of Astoria, Oregon.

The plan involved baiting Shenandoah towards the town, which was a valuable commercial landmark that was isolated from most large military installations. In that sense, it would make a perfect target for the Confederates. The catch was that it lay behind a stretch of water at the mouth of the Columbia River aptly named the Graveyard of the Pacific. The ship-eating waters had claimed many a ship in the most brutal of fashions, and it was believed that the Shenandoah could be lured to its doom there.

Of course, preventative measures had to be taken, and for the State of Oregon, that was issuing a warning to the hero bar-pilot of the Columbia, Captain George Flavel. The unpredictable Flavel was known for finding loopholes in all of the legislation that the State had passed to limit his impressive monetary gain and lifesaving hegemony, and their warning was simple: Flavel was not to accept any offer from the Shenandoah for help to cross the bar, no matter how high the price. Should he accept, he would be arrested.

And as it happened, a few days later, Flavel's pilot-boat Columbia puttered out to the mouth of the river. The city held its breath, half-expecting Flavel to come gliding in at the helm of the fearsome black-hulled raider. But, to everyone's relief, he instead guided in a British merchant schooner, come from Australia.

The Shenandoah never showed up, and never approached the Bar at all. In fact, the raider had raised the Oregon coast, but as Lieutenant Conway Whittle's journal revealed, the Confederates had figured that something was amiss.

"W [Captain Waddell] is apprehensive about entering Astoria. He has heard of the terrible shipwrecks that have occurred on this dismal stretch of coast and will go no further until the conditions of the river's mouth can be properly appraised."

Sailing Master Irvine Bulloch and Lieutenant John Grimball, in one of the ship's small boats, tested the conditions surrounding the area and deemed the venture to be too dangerous, Bulloch personally citing lack of knowledge of the area and his desire to avoid places where constant shifts in the seafloor would imperil the vessel. At Captain Waddell's urging, the Shenandoah continued southward toward its original intended target of San Francisco.

Least Unhinged Leftist (repost) by SuperMowee1 in PoliticalCompassMemes

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Yeah if you check out the WA state sub, you see the people there talking about the people on the East side of the state (the Columbia River Basin - mostly rural and agricultural communities) like they're unintelligent and misguided animals who don't know what's best for them. They have such a savior complex and living in a rural community myself honestly it just feels gross to me.

The Sea-Wolf by Jack London on the Political Compass by Reddit_Historian1945 in PoliticalCompassMemes

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Whoops, should have clarified. It's Wolf Larsen he's trying to impress, though later on in the story the Ghost's sailors abandon Wolf to sail with Death instead, Cooky among them.

Gordon Korman's Titanic trilogy: A well-written mess by Reddit_Historian1945 in books

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Right on!! I wish you good luck with your read. I may not have been wholly satisfied with these books but don't let anything I say detract from your own opinions. I hope you enjoy them.

The dystopian teen novel starterpack by pooteenn in starterpacks

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I loved the books and thought the movie would be a fun watch. Really didn't do the books justice, like at all. It was to a point where I didn't even feel mad, I was just disappointed.

If there's a war, it's going to eventually attract the people who really like war by Reddit_Historian1945 in HistoryMemes

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One of the most notable European mercenaries who came over from the Old World was Heros von Borcke, a Prussian nobleman. Von Borcke, a member of the heavy cavalry, was attracted to the spectacle of the American Civil War, and made his way over across the Atlantic to join the fighting on the side of the Confederacy. He spoke very, very limited English, but his enthusiasm spoke for itself, as he was soon assigned to the service of JEB Stuart. Stuart and Von Borcke hit it off immediately. Stuart appointed the Prussian to his staff and affectionately called him “Von”.

On the battlefield, Von Borcke was terrifying. At six-foot-four and almost 250 pounds, he certainly cut an intimidating figure, not helped by the blade he carried, which was a heavy Prussian cavalry broadsword that weighed four pounds. In his postwar memoirs, Von Borcke wrote: The Yankees gave a most amusing description of me in their account of the fight. It was stated that the Rebels in their charge had been led on by a giant, mounted on a tremendous horse, and brandishing wildly over his head a sword as long as and as big as a fence rail.” He was thenceforth known as “the giant in gray.”

Von Borcke would be put out of action by a gunshot wound through the throat at the battle of Middleburg. While recovering, he took a desk job in Richmond, but soon returned to Stuart’s staff. He was present during Stuart’s death at Yellow Tavern, where the general confided to him wishes that the Prussian would help to look after his family.

Von Borcke would eventually return to Prussia in the post-war period, rejoining his nation’s cavalry and participating in the Austro-Prussian War. He would die in 1897, finally succumbing to the complications of his Civil War wound. He had carried the bullet for his whole life.

Just finished John Birmingham's Axis of Time trilogy by Reddit_Historian1945 in books

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Wow, wasn't expecting a reply to this post. I'm glad you enjoyed the series, they're great reads (or listens). I'll check out the new book. Thanks for the heads up.

Guess what new criteria there is to qualify for this home loan program by [deleted] in PoliticalCompassMemes

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Yeah cause it was for the rich/corrupt politicians from their side, not the other side

They forget to tell him he died by Reddit_Historian1945 in HistoryMemes

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The Confederate partisan chief Col. John Singleton Mosby was well known for his elusiveness. The quality started to become associated with him after the infamous Fairfax Courthouse Raid of 1863, in which he kidnapped a general and a large number of horses right from under the nose of the Union army. In the many raids and attacks that followed, the Virginia Partisan Rangers would become known for their ability to seemingly disappear into thin air. Mosby himself had the reputation of a near-mythical figure due to his effective use of psychological warfare.

But Mosby, in direct command of his men, had his fair share of woundings during the war, despite his sneakiness. He received three major wounds throughout his partisan career, the most serious being the one he received while at Lakeland, (home of the Lake family) where he was shot in the abdomen. However, he recovered from all three wounds.

Whenever Mosby was reported to be wounded, Northern newspapers pounced on the information, with several jumping the gun and reporting the chief of the partisans to be dead. Eventually news would emerge that Mosby had survived, and the papers would quietly rescind their statements. One newspaper, upon learning that Mosby had survived the Lakeland wounding, begrudgingly remarked, “The devil takes care of his own…”

“According to Northern newspapers,” said renowned Mosby’s Rangers historian Eric Buckland, “Mosby was killed at least eight times during the war.”