What is the most amazing military victory in the history of the world?

[Ethelred]

Originally posted by Faeelin


You do realize that 1 in 8 of the impis at isandalwana DIED, dont' you?

They won and the Brits lost almost every single man. Yet at Roarks Drift with about the same ratio of attackers to defenders the Brits won.

And that the Bits lost at insandalwana for using tactics which were almost necer used by the British army...

They pretty much didn't have time for tactics of any kind. They were overrun before they could do much. The whole thing was a botch but the Brits still had the same guns there as at Roarks Drift and Zulus had the same weapons.

Canae was pretty impressive though. There were Roman survivors even though the descriptions of the battle that I have seen gave the impression that there weren't any. Supposedly Scipio had 10,000 veterans of Canae when he took Carthage. Maybe I have that all garbled. Its been a while since I have read anything on that.

[Arrian]

Provost,

Yeah, Agincourt was impressive, but there has to be a discount because of the opponent.

-Arrian

[Stefu]

Oh, without doubt Finnish victory over Soviets in Winter War at the battle of Suomussalmi. Info here.

[DinoDoc]

Originally posted by Stefu
Oh, without doubt Finnish victory over Soviets in Winter War at the battle of Suomussalmi.

Made possible by your alliance with the Nazis.

[Tuberski]

Originally posted by DinoDoc
Made possible by your alliance with the Nazis.

That is incorrect. During that time Russia and Germany were allies in their conquest of Poland.

[Stefu]

Come oooooon, Doc. You're not even trying there.

I mean, whatever is one's opinion about Finland's co-belligerency with Germany in 1941-1944, Germany's role in Winter War (1939-1940) was limited to stopping Italian weapon shipments for Finland.

[DinoDoc]

My mistake.

[monkspider]

I could be mistaken, but I could have sworn that Germany sent a few "volunteer" units to help out those plucky Finns.

BTW, my vote goes to Agincourt.

[Sten Sture]

I've always been partial to the Battle of Yorktown, though the Brits did make quite a habit out of getting their colonial outposts overthrown.

[Stefu]

I could be mistaken, but I could have sworn that Germany sent a few "volunteer" units to help out those plucky Finns.

That was Sweden. Germans didn't do squat in Winter War - well, except for stopping the aforementioned weapon shipments.

Why would have they risked getting to war with SU at this point, when Op. Barbarossa wasn't scheluded to start yet?

[monkspider]

Under the guise of a small number of volunteer units, Germany could have gotten away with it quite easily. Soviet Union at this point, definitely wanted a war with Germany a lot less than Germany wanted a war with them.

That said, even if they did send a small number of volunteers, it probably wouldn't tip the scales much in any event. The Plucky Finns still kicked a lot of ass.

[DinoDoc]

While we are talking about Finland, why were they the only honest European nation when it came to paying off thier war debts to the US?

[Dauphin]

Obviously, you mean of those that actually had war debts. So why do you phrase it as if to tarnish all Europeans with the same brush.

[Thue]

Originally posted by Felch X
Every battle in the Greek-Persian war was documented by the Greeks. See any post by paiktis if you want to know why that's not a reliable source.

Good point .

[Provost Harrison]

Originally posted by monkspider
I could be mistaken, but I could have sworn that Germany sent a few "volunteer" units to help out those plucky Finns.

Strictly 'off the record' of course