Notices by Fash-E :windmill_of_friendship: (fash-e@poa.st), page 12
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Fash-E :windmill_of_friendship: (fash-e@poa.st)'s status on Friday, 16-Feb-2024 12:56:57 JST Fash-E :windmill_of_friendship: @SuperSnekFriend @AnimeGirlConnoisseur Osaka and Charlemagne accept Wittekind's surrender in Paderborn 785 AD -
Fash-E :windmill_of_friendship: (fash-e@poa.st)'s status on Friday, 16-Feb-2024 12:56:57 JST Fash-E :windmill_of_friendship: @SuperSnekFriend @AnimeGirlConnoisseur Osaka facing Hannibal at the Battle of Zama 202 BC -
Fash-E :windmill_of_friendship: (fash-e@poa.st)'s status on Friday, 16-Feb-2024 12:56:56 JST Fash-E :windmill_of_friendship: @SuperSnekFriend @AnimeGirlConnoisseur The last Western Emperor surrenders to Osaka and Odoacer 476 AD -
Fash-E :windmill_of_friendship: (fash-e@poa.st)'s status on Friday, 16-Feb-2024 12:56:55 JST Fash-E :windmill_of_friendship: @SuperSnekFriend @AnimeGirlConnoisseur Osaka and the Black Prince standing over the body of King John of Bohemia, after the Battle of Crecy -
Fash-E :windmill_of_friendship: (fash-e@poa.st)'s status on Friday, 16-Feb-2024 12:56:54 JST Fash-E :windmill_of_friendship: @SuperSnekFriend @AnimeGirlConnoisseur Look how happy she is -
Fash-E :windmill_of_friendship: (fash-e@poa.st)'s status on Friday, 16-Feb-2024 12:56:53 JST Fash-E :windmill_of_friendship: @SuperSnekFriend @AnimeGirlConnoisseur Osaka and Lars Porsena watching Gaius Mucius Cordus burn his right hand off to make a point c.508 BC -
Fash-E :windmill_of_friendship: (fash-e@poa.st)'s status on Friday, 16-Feb-2024 10:52:18 JST Fash-E :windmill_of_friendship: @ChristiJunior @DINGO -
Fash-E :windmill_of_friendship: (fash-e@poa.st)'s status on Friday, 16-Feb-2024 10:51:40 JST Fash-E :windmill_of_friendship: Your Aryan princess needs you, Anon. Vote Osaka best girl.
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Fash-E :windmill_of_friendship: (fash-e@poa.st)'s status on Friday, 16-Feb-2024 10:37:02 JST Fash-E :windmill_of_friendship: @SuperSnekFriend @AnimeGirlConnoisseur Osaka is Hitler's choice -
Fash-E :windmill_of_friendship: (fash-e@poa.st)'s status on Friday, 16-Feb-2024 10:37:01 JST Fash-E :windmill_of_friendship: @wgiwf @SuperSnekFriend @AnimeGirlConnoisseur EXPLAIN THIS -
Fash-E :windmill_of_friendship: (fash-e@poa.st)'s status on Thursday, 15-Feb-2024 22:23:42 JST Fash-E :windmill_of_friendship: For the 15th Day of White History Month we celebrate William the Conqueror and his conquest of England!
In 1035 William's father Duke Robert of Normandy went on a pilgrimage to Jerusalem. Before departing the Duke had his vassals swear fealty to his legitimized bastard son William. Robert died while returning from the pilgrimage leaving a seven year old William "the Bastard" of Normandy as Duke. Norman vassals were particularly unruly, with William's bastard status it was nearly impossible. His youth was filled with assassination attempts and rebellions. Initially his lord King Henry of France was supportive of the young Duke. When William's vassals rebelled in 1047, King Henry fought alongside a 19 Year old William at the Battle of Val-ès-Dunes. Their 10,000 knights defeating over 25,000 rebels. Eventually the rebellious lords won the favor of the French King, leading to a combined invasion of William's Duchy in 1055. In 1057 William defeated the combined armies of France and the rebel lords at the Battle of Varaville, finally securing his control over Normandy.
In January of 1066, the King of England Edward the Confessor died without an heir, or technically leaving 3 heirs. The Godwinsons were the pressumed successors but Edward's rivalry with their father Godwin had led him to name a distant young relative in Normandy as his heir, William. The most powerful Anglo-Saxon lord Harold was quick to secure the throne but the other claimants were prepared to fight him for it. Harold's brother Tostig Godwinson with the support of Harald Hardrada of Norway invaded the North of England but were defeated by Harold Godwinson at the Battle of Stamford Bridge in September of 1066. Immediately after his victory, Godwinson received word William had landed in the south and he marched his men back down to meet him at the Battle of Hastings in October 1066.
Despite the long march, Harold's forces had a considerable advantage. They were numerically superior, held a defensive hilltop position, and were in friendly territory. William was forced to attack uphill, outnumbered, into a shieldwall of experienced Anglo-Saxon soldiers. The fighting was brutal with the Normans taking the heavy losses, they were soon forced to retreat downhill. While retreating a fraction of the Saxon army broke formation and persued. William's army was on the verge of routing and many men believed William had died in the fighting. Desperate to regain control, William took off his helmet and rode across his troops shouting for them to stand their ground. Separated from their shield wall the Saxon persuers were cut down by a charge led by William personally. William saw this had weakened Godwinsons shield wall and decided to try and replicate it.
He led his knights back up the hill to assault the shield wall once more, this time feigning retreats. For a while the Saxons discipline held but eventually more men broke out and the Normans were able to thin the Saxon line further. Losses were still worse for the Normans and the Saxons shield wall was holding firm. With the sun going down, William knew it was now or never. He could not survive a night deep in enemy territory with an enemy army at his back. He ordered a full assault on the shield wall. Again the fighting was brutal, neither side giving any ground. It looked as though William was losing the battle until a rogue arrow pierced the throat of Harold Godwinson. He fell from his horse and was hacked to pieces by Norman knights. They holding his head up for everyone to see. The Saxon host finally broke and were cut down.
William marched on London and was crowned King of England on December 25th 1066. Norman Kings would rule over England until the death of Richard III in 1485, during the civil war known as the Wars of the Roses. Upon Williams death his lands were divided between his sons. The first son, Robert Curthose, receiving their ancestral seat the Duchy of Normandy. While the second son received the Kingdom of England. An unusual decision which would inevitably lead to civil wars between his heirs and the eventually collapse of the de Normandie Dynasty in a period known as the Anarchy. Before staking his rightful claim to the English throne, Robert would take a leading role in the First Crusade. Personally leading the charge out of Antioch in 1098. Through the marriage of a Norman lord Geoffrey Plantagenet and Holy Roman Empress Matilda, a new King Henry II Plantagenet took the thrones of England and Normandy, eventually bringing into their control the Duchy of Aquitaine and ultimately the western half of France. This Composite monarchy in France and England became known as the Angevin Empire. The restoration of this Empire was a motivation in the Hundred Years War. -
Fash-E :windmill_of_friendship: (fash-e@poa.st)'s status on Thursday, 15-Feb-2024 02:12:21 JST Fash-E :windmill_of_friendship: For the 14th Day of White History Month we celebrate the restorer of the Western Roman Empire Otto the Great and the Conqueror of the Khazar Khaganate Svyatoslav the Brave!
Otto the Great's father Henry the Fowler, was the duke of Saxony in 912 AD and distant relative of the Saxon chief Widukind who fought Charlemagne. They had remained vassals of East Francia but the Carolingian dynasty was now collapsing in the face of the Magyar invasions. Driven West by the Khazar Khaganate, a tribe of horselords claiming descent from the Huns had invaded the Pannonian basin. From that base of power they had begun launching raids into Christendom. Western Europe was in a crisis, desperate for competent leaders. Henry the Fowler rose to power due to his military campaigns in middle Francia, where he and his son Otto had taken Lothringia from the West Franks. When the German lords came to Henry to offer him the crown in 919 AD, he was tending to his messenger birds. Thus the nickname the Fowler.
Otto became King of Germany in 936 AD. His most pressing task was halting the relentless incursions of the Magyars. Marching 7000 heavy cavalry through Bavaria, Otto met the army of 10,000 horse archers led by Taksony at the plains of Lechfeld in 955. Taksony was the grandson of the legendary Magyar chief Arpad who first settled in Pannonia. The battle was extremely costly for Otto, but ultimately the Magyars fled east, hoping to return and fight another day. Otto had planned for this, before the battle he had sent riders further east to block all bridges and river crossings, trapping the retreating horselords in bavaria, where they could be hunted down and slaughtered in the rainy night. The Magyar military leaders were captured and executed, the King swore to never again attack Western Christendom. From that day until World War 2, the Magyars kept to that oath and remained loyal allies of Germany. Otto finished his reign with the goal of restoring the Western Empire, known as "Renovatio imperii Romanorum." Otto invaded Italy and was crowned Emperor by the Pope in 962 AD. The Holy Roman Empire would rule over central Europe until the conquests of Napoleon in 1806.
In 862, the Norse Viking Rurik was invited by the Rus slavs around Novgorod to rule over them. Rurik conquered down to Kiev and founded Kievan Rus. Rurik's son Igor married an Olga of Kiev, who would later become a saint. Igor would die fighting a neighboring tribe from the Khazar Khaganate. Svyatoslav the Brave became Grand Prince of a United Kievan Rus in 945. Following the death of his father Igor, His mother Saint Olga had been the first female ruler of the Rus during Svyatoslav's regency and she was the first to be baptized. Sviatoslav the Brave went on the conquer the Khazar Khaganate and his later campaigns along the Danube would destroy the first Bulgar Empire. His son Vladimir the Great was the King responsible for Christianizing the Rus and cementing their ties with the Byzantine Dynasties. -
Fash-E :windmill_of_friendship: (fash-e@poa.st)'s status on Wednesday, 14-Feb-2024 03:50:09 JST Fash-E :windmill_of_friendship: 79 Years ago today the Allied powers firebombed a defenseless city inhabited primarily by women and children which served no military purpose. They claim to have killed 35,000 civilians, German estimates ranged from 200,000 to 500,000, as civilians from all over Germany had been moved there for safety. Architect of these methods of war, Churchill described them as "Exterminating attacks on the Nazi homeland." This is the true face of the liberal world order. -
Fash-E :windmill_of_friendship: (fash-e@poa.st)'s status on Wednesday, 14-Feb-2024 00:32:25 JST Fash-E :windmill_of_friendship: For the 13th Day of White History Month we celebrate the great warriors and explorers of the Viking Age! The legendary Ragnar loðbrók, his sons Ivar the Boneless, Sigurd Snake-in-the-Eye of Denmark, Björn Ironside of Sweden, Halfdan Ragnarsson of Northumbria and Dublin. The explorers Erik the Red and Leif Erikson, who discovered Greenland and Newfoundland. The great conquerors Sweyn Forkbeard and his son Cnut the Great. Rollo the founder of Normandy, his greatest descendants Robert Guiscard who conquered Sicily and William the The Conqueror of England. Then finally Harald Hardrada known as the Last Viking.
In 845 the largest Viking fleet ever seen arrived on the costs of France. Sailing up the Seins river, the Viking army besieged and sacked Paris. The Emperor Charles the bald was forced to pay them huge amounts of gold to their leader Ragnar. One viking among the raiding party however was less interested in gold and more in land. Rollo made a separate deal with the Emperor, in exchange for being allowed to keep the land he had siezed, he would swear fealty to the Franks. Charles accepted and the Duchy of Normandy was born. A synthesis of Norse and Frankish culture. Ragnar's son Bjorn Ironside continued south to raid Arab lands in the Mediterranean before returning to Scandinavia and becoming King of Sweden. Ragnar himself sailed for England where he raided lands in the North until the King of Northumbria captured him and threw him into a pit of vipers. Ragnar's sons led an invasion of the Isles known as the Great Heathen Army, conquering lands along the North and East shores of Britain.
Around the year 1000, the Viking explorer Erik the Red was expelled from Iceland for several murders he had committed. His father had been exiled to Iceland from Norway for violence. Now exiled as well, he chose to sail West, where he discovered Greenland, naming it to falsely to encourage others to join his new settlement. Erik's son Leif would go a step further sailing as far West as Newfoundland and Nova Scotia. These voyages coincided with the First Crusade and became associated with a fabled treasure horde buried on Oak Island, Nova Scotia where some say the Vikings stored treasures taken from the Holy Lands.
In 1013, The King of Denmark and Norway Sweyn Forkbeard became the first Viking ruler to successfully invade England and be crowned King after a lifetime of raiding the Isles coasts. His death only one year later would shatter this achievement, each Kingdom passed to different hands. It was left to his son Cnut to regain all three thrones in his lifetime. Beginning with his conquest of England in 1016, Denmark in 1018 and finally Norway in 1028. Cnut the Great establish the short-lived North Sea Empire, becoming perhaps the greatest Viking Conqueror.
In 1030, Harald Hardrada or "Hard Ruler" attempted to retake the throne of Norway from the son of Cnut the Great in a battle but was defeated. Harald had spent the next fifteen years in exile as a commander in Kievan Rus' and a chief of the Varangian Guard in the Byzantine Empire. Returning to Norway in 1046 to be crowned King, he claimed the thrones of Denmark and England as well. Eventually leading to his invasion of England with Tostig Godwinson and defeat at the hands of Harold Godwinson at the Battle of Stamford Bridge in 1066. According to the Norse poet Snorri Sturluson, before the battle a man rode up alone to Harald Hardrada and Tostig. He spoke only to Tostig, offering to return his earldom if he turned against Hardrada. Tostig asked what his brother Harold would be willing to give Hardrada for his trouble. The rider replied "Seven feet of English ground, as he is taller than other men". Then rode back to the Saxon host. Hardrada was impressed by the rider's boldness, and asked Tostig who he was. Tostig replied that the rider was Harold Godwinson himself.
In 1057, the Norman Viking Robert Guiscard sailed into the Mediterranean sea, sailing for Sicily. The Vikings conquered both Byzantine and Muslim lands in southern Italy. Winning major battles against both the Greeks and Arabs as well as fighting amongst each other. They founded the Norman Kingdom of Sicily under the Hauteville Dynasty which would rule Sicily until 1194. Robert's son Bohemond would go on the lead the First Crusade, bringing Antioch under Norman rule in 1098. -
Fash-E :windmill_of_friendship: (fash-e@poa.st)'s status on Wednesday, 14-Feb-2024 00:32:22 JST Fash-E :windmill_of_friendship: @kf01 @narada i always played either poland or greece if i was being tryhard they had the best bonuses in V IMO, but i liked being rome and germany for the world conquest larp -
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Fash-E :windmill_of_friendship: (fash-e@poa.st)'s status on Tuesday, 13-Feb-2024 23:05:28 JST Fash-E :windmill_of_friendship: @kvit gm! -
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Fash-E :windmill_of_friendship: (fash-e@poa.st)'s status on Monday, 12-Feb-2024 02:31:28 JST Fash-E :windmill_of_friendship: @madison en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_the_Angrivarian_Wall
Germanicus avenging the loss at Teutoburg forest against Arminius. Arminius united the German tribes for the first time in recorded history and managed to push Roman presence back from the Elbe river to the Rhine but the Romans dealt them heavy casualties.