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Break Monday: Bad-ass Soldier Edition
« on: April 24, 2017, 04:33:18 PM »
In today's Break article, I take a short biographical look through history of four legendary bad-ass fighter-guys, ranging from the 1st century until the 20th.

Why? Just because I dig history, and all four of these guys had interesting stories to tell.

So, check out Four Historical Warriors With Kill-Counts John Wick Could Respect.

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« Reply #1 on: April 24, 2017, 04:34:07 PM »
Sounds interesting, I will check it out.
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« Reply #2 on: April 24, 2017, 04:44:15 PM »
You should have thrown in Alexander and Genghis, both of them had reputations as great fighters as well as generals. Trajan was no slouch either.
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« Reply #3 on: April 24, 2017, 07:17:31 PM »
How was Hanible? I hear he was a great general and a mean son of a bitch.  Prrsonally feared by his entire army.

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« Reply #4 on: April 24, 2017, 10:27:50 PM »
I do think Hannibal was a bad-ass. But he was also over-rated (by the Romans, mainly; making him out to be a super-competent "villain" for their story).
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« Reply #5 on: April 25, 2017, 02:03:05 AM »
How about Mithridates the Great?
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