• Deestan@lemmy.world
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    22 days ago

    He is such an absurd historical figure to read about, the way he could get people to rally around him and make his armies work smoothly no matter what.

    It looked like he could just wash ashore naked and alone anywhere, recruit a loyal army from whomever appeared to live nearby, and snowball it into a huge professional fighting force on the way to conquer the nearest city.

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      22 days ago

      I listened to a podcast about his life & times, some of the sources they used included his love letters which added a whole other dimension to his character. You have this immensely powerful and gifted military leader, feared across Europe, writing to a 19 year old he just met at a party about how he’s just going to die of sadness if she doesn’t write back to him immediately.

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    22 days ago

    Its cause the British and the French while both using feet and inches had different sizes for what an inch was. So a 5’ 2" in France was closer to 5’ 7" in England. But it’s easier to say he is short and didn’t like that.

    • VindictiveJudge@lemmy.world
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      21 days ago

      Still disappointed that Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure didn’t use the song Waterloo for the waterpark sequence.