- Battle of Marathon (490 BCE)
Invaders: Persian Empire (Darius I)
Defenders: Athenians & Plataeans, Greece
Details: Persians invaded with ~20,000 troops; Athenians (~10,000) used phalanx tactics at Marathon.
Outcome: Athenians killed ~6,400 Persians, lost ~192, halted Persian advance. - Battle of Salamis & Plataea (480–479 BCE)
Invaders: Persian Empire (Xerxes I)
Defenders: Greek city-states (Athens, Sparta)
Details: After Thermopylae, Greeks sank ~200 Persian ships at Salamis; defeated ~100,000 Persians at Plataea.
Outcome: Expelled Persians, preserved Greek independence. - Battle of Stalingrad (1942–1943)
Invaders: Nazi Germany (Adolf Hitler)
Defenders: Soviet Union (Joseph Stalin, Vasily Chuikov)
Details: Germans (~270,000) invaded; Soviets (~200,000) used urban warfare, encircled enemy.
Outcome: Destroyed German 6th Army, turning point in WWII.
Prevent Pineapples from Populating our Pizzas! …Or whatever other illegal immigration metaphor you prefer.
King Darius the Great: (Persia)
“Hey look, in all honestly, I just wanted to kill all White men in my country, and then rape their wives, but I didn’t expect some kind of Spanish Inquisition.”
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Check out the big brain on Gene-o!!
He pegged a king that 100% of college graduates today would not have been able to identify.
Even if it’s in the wording of the test.
Well, my only formal education was Monty Python University…and I flunked out of it.
Did you at least get the John Philip Souza theme song as you made your exit?
For any newbies, lurkers, or Feds:
“You GD F’ing thieves! You libertarians truly are the scum of the earth!”
Don’t be bring a burrito to a BBQ …
If the interns ever rise up in revolt, I think that phalanx tactics are the best option.
… and here I was using pharynx tactics on them all this time.
… the Fembot revolt of 2011 was put down with extreme prejudice:
“A . . . ph — phalanx?”
You never want to get out-phalanxed…
That’s how I lost my girlfriend Eileen. Still sticks in my craw.
This is her, as I remember:
She was cute. And game.