What are some of the most embarrassing defeats in history?
What are some of the most embarrassing defeats in history?
>inb4 Emu war
Emu war
Russia losing against Finland.
Blood River
Never happened.
I really like the movie about Chinese Gordon
Entirety of the first sino Japanese war
Cry about it, bydlo.
The movie was pretty cool
LUIGI CARDONA, MARSHAL OF ITALY
Alpine combat is a bitch, that's not really embarassing.
Attacking a casement with nothing but rifle infantry is shitty planning though
Battle of Sedan is a great one.
Obviously.. usa anal raped by vietnam.
>The side with 35% more soldiers and guns win
How is that embarassing?
Isandlhwana. Brits got buttfucked by literal chucking of spears.
1667 Medway raid
Obviously.
>burgers attack empty island
>lose over 300 men
en.wikipedia.org
america stronk kek
It was a really tough island.
What they don't tell you is apparently they were also trusted a load of treasure as well that was stored mainly on Admiral Nakhimov.
>Poland victory
>Poland English skills
You call that a siege?
Battle of Sarikamish
>be ottomans
>118,000 well fed and well supplied roaches attack under supplied group of 60,000 Russians and Armenians
>33,000 dead turks
>Another 10,000 died in hospitals
>10,000 wounded
>7,000 captured
>16,000 Russian casualties
>12,000 Russians caught a cold
Forgot link
en.m.wikipedia.org
No one has a better K/D than the U.S.
>inb4 Vietnam War
Ayy
They did pretty decent against the NVA and Vietcong, eventually, it's just that they went home and let them take over Vietnam.
By no means an American victory, and it wasn't smooth sailing, but they weren't stomped at every turn, they actually fought really well and made good 'progress'.
True that, hard to beat anything:0.
>one battle
Russia won tho
>1 captured
Imagine being that unlucky guy. Did they ever get him back?
fucking saved
Your mom
Also your penis
Won what? A few strategically important stretches of Nothing At All along the border? At the expense of a mountain of dead soldiers and lost equipment?
Big strong Russia.
Which time? When they took Karelia or when they took Petsamo and Finnish access to the Arctic Ocean, lol?
Sweet Pekka tears. Remember, you won't see this ever again. Never ever.
Sure it was a pyrrhic victory, a victory nonetheless. That's like saying we won Vietnam because we killed loads more VC/NVA.
Won the war, Pekka. Deal with it and let it go.
>Gonna turn Finland into another Soviet satellite state, nothing can stop us!
>F-fuck!
>W-well we changed the border a little bit, that's a victory! RUSSIA STRONK!
Finland conceding effectively nothing at all (so that they'd fuck off already), and remaining free from dirty communism, at a stupidly huge expense to Russia, isn't a victory in any real sense.
That's a gigantic "I meant to do that!"
Just let it go and live on, Pekka.
>That's like saying we won Vietnam because we killed loads more VC/NVA.
No it isn't.
Finland fought to not become a communist hell, and achieved exactly that, at really pretty low losses.
America fought alongside the Vietnamese to stop the communist takeover of the country, the war was a big clusterfuck, and America went home (gave up), leaving the Vietnamese for themselves, allowing the country to be conquered by communists, Vietnam becoming a socialist state, this being what the US set out to prevent, this is objectively a failure, and for how much time, money and blood was poured into it, a pretty shameful failure.
Wow, look at all that nothing at all.
If it's nothing why does it still hurt you so much?
At least we didn't try killing off the Sparrow and end up starving half the country.
Yeah, they traded him back for a couple dudes.
Fun fact that Aidid's eldest son was a U.S. Marine that took part in Restore Hope.
>Finland conceding effectively nothing at all
Still more than Russia had demanded before the war.
>so that they'd fuck off already
With the Finnish defensive line having collapsed, getting Stalin to fuck off was becoming rather urgent.
>That's a gigantic "I meant to do that!"
No one got what they wanted out of the Winter War. Yeah, Russia would have liked all of Finland, but Finland most definitely didn't want to cede anything whatsoever. But with the collapse of their defenses it was either that or Uncle Joe's Magical Genocide Fun Time (now with extra rape). The national butthurt that ensued got them onto the nazi deprwagen and into the continuation war, where instead of taking back what they just lost with some extra on the side they ended up loosing even more instead. Oops.
How the fuck? Are Italians really the t*rks of Europe?
lee-metford
Artillery
Maxim machine guns
Vs
Sabres
Frenchies should have got that right after maybe the 4ºth charge.
Maybe
>inb4 bongs jump in with damage control
Sad that Iceland never got to buy Soviet frigates like they planned to. Could be so ebin.
I am not sure which side did worse.
I've got you, Tjomma
cunt emu's are fucked fuck off
It's less alpine combat and more completely wrong infographic (or blatant french revisionism).
In reality the forces involved were a whole system of casemates/bunkers with artillery support (at least 350 men + the artillery further behind) vs much fewer than 5000 italians (the figure includes whole units that never too part in direct combat, in this battle at least). Not 9 vs 5000.
In the end Flavortown won
Little Big Horn just for Custer's pure dumbfuckery.
>Still more than Russia had demanded before the war.
Lol, bullshit, Russia would have taken all of Finland if they hadn't fought back so hard.
They had probably the worst leadership of all the big powers in the war. Once they split into two, the soldiers fought far better under British and nazi leadership, respectively. I forget where I read it but I remember reading about some Allied colonel that was shocked at how well the Italian resistance fought
post the fake one that's funnier
the fingols lost, retard
go back to yor spaghettis
Niggers could be armed with laser rifles and they'd still be BTFO by any kind of coordinated enemy.
The 2016 Election.
>losing so many resources during the winter war that you had to call upon Papa mutt to supply you
We all know the actual winner of this conflict.
fake
Battle of Singapore. Defending Brits outnumber attacking Japs 2:1. Believed inherent Anglo superiority will defeat anybody. Among worst defeats in British history.
I'm stupid, you actually modified the wiki page.
The french one is unaltered
Thank you for posting the real one. It's pretty fucking unbelievable that 94% of the frogs would die before they retreated
Some of them had guns, I assume.
Despite their inferior weaponry, one would expect them to adapt the way they waged war so they could utilize available weapons in a more effective way.
They failed to achieve this in this particular battle, but did succeed (relative to the outcome of battles such as this= in other.
The Mahdi Army had captured both rifles, field guns, and a large amount of ammunition earlier in the war. Both from Egyptian forces, and, I assume, from the Anglo-Egyptian forces during (failed expedition) and after the fall of Khartoum.
Advance weaponry doesn't mean much compared to having a generals who knows how to use these weapon effectively. You can give M16s to people in American Civil war and they will still use firing formation with them.
to be able to utilise new weapons effectively requires experiences with them, something the
Mus don't have and the English with a lot
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The one where the austrian army defeated itself
Yes, they had awful military leadership. Thus they faced multiple embarrassing defeats despite capturing modern equipment, and getting nearly two decades to adapt.
This is my reply to the thread.
>the memes of production
My sides
Pic related
Napoleon was one damn genius
Here's another of Napoleon's obscure but very impressive victories