Nikola Tesla, the Serbian God of Thunder.

Another sweet thing about Tesla is that he conducted the sort of crazy experiments that generally result in hordes of angry villagers breaking down the door to your lab with torches and pitchforks. One time, while he was working on magnetic resonance, he discovered the resonant frequency of the Earth and caused an earthquake so powerful that it almost obliterated the 5th Avenue New York building that housed his Frankenstein Castle of a laboratory. Stuff was flying off the walls, the drywall was breaking apart, the cops were coming after him, and Tesla had to smash his device with a sledge hammer to keep it from demolishing an entire city block. Later, he boasted that he could have built a device powerful enough to split the Earth in two. Nobody dared him to prove it.

Tesla also ordered the construction of the Wardenclyffe Tesla Tower, a giant building shaped like an erect penis that would have housed the largest Tesla coil ever built. The massive structure, ostensibly designed to wirelessly transmit power, has been cited as a potential cause of the mysterious 1908 Tunguska Event – a ten-megaton blast that detonated in the wastelands above central Russia that completely obliterated and deforested everything unlucky enough to be located within a several hundred mile radius. While nothing has ever successfully proven Tesla's involvement in the a*s-destroyingly huge explosion, it's pretty awesome that this guy could potentially have detonated a weapon 1,000 times more powerful than the nuclear bomb that destroyed Hiroshima, and have done it back before they'd even invented the submachine gun.

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Yang Jingyu.
His detachment of 60 troopers were betrayed to the Japanese by a staff officer on February 18. After the last two soldiers at his side were killed in action, Yang continued fighting alone for another 5 days. He was eventually cornered in a small forest by a large combined Japanese and collaborationist forces...

It was reported that the Japanese troops, fearing Yang's famed marksmanship from previous encounters, refused to approach his body for a while after his death.

Unable to understand Yang's source of perseverance (Yang had not eaten for over 6 days), the Japanese ordered an autopsy after cutting off and preserving Yang's head. When they cut open Yang's stomach, they found only tree bark, cotton batting and grass roots within — not a single grain of rice. The Japanese commander at the scene, Ryuichiro Kishitani (岸谷隆一郎), was so shocked at the revelation that he "went silent, and appeared aged a lot within the next day." Kishitani committed seppuku after Japan's defeat, but wrote in his will that "His Majesty might be wrong in launching this war. China has steely soldiers like Yang Jingyu, and it would not fall."

The Japanese initially buried Yang's beheaded body carelessly in the wild. It was then rumored that the Japanese commander-in-chief in the area, General Shōtoku Nozoe (野副昌德), was having nightmares and feared that it was Yang's ghost. Panicked, Kishitani ordered his men to rebury the body properly with full cemetery ritual and military respect, honoring Yang — though an enemy — "a true warrior."

Not only a badass when he was alive, but he was so badass his enemies still feared him even after his death.

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I like Hannibal. You march elephants across the alps to attack the Romans, you rank as one of the baddest asses of all time.

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I always think of Mr T's explanation of who Hannibal was in the pilot episode of The A-Team (the actual Hannibal, not Hannibal Smith): "Hannibal was a Carthaginian commander. He took his over over the Alps into Italy. He used elephants to carry his equipment. Nobody thought you could take an army over the Alps, but Hannibal did. Caught the Romans sleeping, and beat 'em up." Good summary actually, even if Rome did eventually win their war against Carthage.

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Jim Thorpe.

Dude was an absolute bad ass. In my opinion, the greatest American athlete of all time and it isn’t particularly close.

First Native American to win an Olympic Gold (decathlon and pentathlon, 1912)

His athletic career started by being a two time All-American in football in college.

After college, he played 6 years in the MLB (you read that correctly).

He then went on to win 3 championships in professional football, eventually becoming the first president of the organization that became the NFL.

After his football career he led an all-Native American barnstorming basketball team.

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He won that gold medal in mismatched shoes that didn't fit because some twatwaffle stole his shoes. Total badass!

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Chesty Puller, Marine Corps General.

Chesty commanded the 1st Marine Regiment when the 1st Marine Division found itself surrounded by Chinese and North Korean forces at Chosin Reservoir, outnumbered at least eight to one. Some saw a crisis, but Chesty saw an opportunity to be able to attack in any direction and hit some enemy forces.

"All right, they’re on our left, they’re on our right, they’re in front of us, they’re behind us…they can’t get away this time!"

Heavily outnumbered, and fighting in ball-freezing sub-zero temperatures, Puller’s troops broke the enemy lines, smashed through seven enemy divisions, and then stayed behind as a rear guard, bearing the brunt of the Chinese onslaught so that the rest of the Marines could complete their retreat (Puller refused to refer to it as a retreat, however, he preferred to call it, "attacking in a different direction").

The 1st Marines withstood fierce attacks by hordes of Communist soldiers but held their position, inflicted tremendous numbers of casualties on the enemy and managed to provide enough time for the Allies to evacuate all of their wounded men and salvageable equipment. Sheer bravery in the face of intense fire and a seemingly winless situation earned Chesty Puller his fifth Navy Cross – an unprecedented accomplishment that has never been equaled.

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When Chesty Puller first saw a flame thrower he asked where the bayonet went.

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Alexander the Great. A man so badass that he conquered so much land that by the time he got to India his own generals had to convince him to go back home since he'd been on campaign for so long his men missed their families.

He reigned for 13 years and died at the ripe old age of 33, having conquered his way from Greece to India, taking Egypt along for the ride. He was also almost certainly bisexual, was thought to have been the child of Zeus and was tutored by Aristotle. He was of course a military genius and undefeated in battle.

Physical looks aside, as he was stocky and somewhat short, his entire life reads like the sort of character you'd read about in a story and think he was total Mary Sue. If he hadn't died at 33 he probably would have conquered most of the known world.

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"Sang-Ok Kim," a Korean independence fighter who fought 400:1 against Japanese soldiers with dual-wield pistols for three hours. Took 10 bullets during the fire fight, and took his own life with his last bullet only after he ran out of ammo and could no longer fight.

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Lady Trieu Thi Trinh. She was a warrior-queen who decided to lead the people against the Chinese imperial rule over Northern Vietnam at that time. The Chinese governor at that time was so afraid of her that even after her death he still had thousands of wooden penises hanging around his house to scare her away.

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Was she penis-phobic? What's with the wooden peni?

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Mad Jack Churchill. He was a lieutenant in WWII who marched into battle with bagpipes, a longbow, and a basket-hilted Scottish broadsword.

He firmly believed that any officer who entered battle without his sword was improperly dressed, and holds the most recent confirmed kill with a longbow.

He also disliked the Americans joining the war, because without them, the war could have gone on for 10 more years.

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When you find that thing you are really really good at.

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leo major, without a doubt. he single handedly liberated an entire dutch town against a full german garrison after the germans killed his buddy. he caused so much noise with gunfire and grenades that the germans fled thinking the entire canadian army was storming the city. he also stumbled upon an SS headquarters and proceeded to kill 4 ss officers with his bare hands causing the other 4 to flee for their life. presumably s******g themselves.

because of his actions in liberating the city, the canadian army didn't have to shell the city before retaking it.
he was awarded with his first distinguished conduct medal. it would have been his second but he told general montgomery that he doesn't want a medal from him the first time. nobody had respect for montgomery because he was famously a s**t general.

during the korean war, major and his squad of 18 stormed and captured a heavily fortified hill that was held by over 40k chinese soldiers. he then defended the hill for 3 days against a counter attack of over 13 thousand enemy troops while ordering artillery strikes only meters away from his position. needless to say. this earned him his second medal.

usually i would say that the man had balls of steel or titanium, but i don't think we've yet discovered the element his balls were made of.

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Adamantium, perhaps?

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Deborah Sampson.

She dressed up as a dude to serve her country during the American Revolution. Pretty dope if you ask me

To not get caught, she literally shoved a bullet out of her skin and sew her skin shut in order for no male soldiers to realize she wasn’t a dude

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Ouch! What an amazing woman to go to such an extent so she could voluntarily fight! It always intrigues me, the many things I'm certain she had to pull off just so she wasn't detected

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The White Death is pretty badass. Although I had a neighbor who got the Silver Star medal from the US Army for charging a German machine gun nest in WWII. He threw a grenade in, but forgot to pull the pin. He was about to curse his stupidity when the Germans bailed, so he shot them instead and took the nest. Used the machine gun to disable a different machine gun across the field from where he was at. He also crawled for 1/4 of a mile to rescue an injured tank gunner, then crawled the whole 1/4 mile back with the guy on his back, because he was too hurt to crawl that distance. He stabbed a Nazi officer at Normandy after his rifle and pistol ran out of ammo. He had like 8 bronze stars, a silver star, and 3 Purple Hearts. The guy is a genuine hero. After WWII, he got his MD PhD, got licensed as a radiologist, and studied radiation. He’s a pretty cool guy.

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Lorenc Peter Elfred Freuchen was a 6’7” tall walrus-spearing, peg-legged, anti-Semite-clobbering Danish explorer and badass old-school 1900s explorer who wore a f**king awesome coat made of polar bear fur, rocked a seriously epic beard, rode a dogsled 1,000 kilometers across the Greenland ice cap in the 1910s, killed a wolf with his bare hands, escaped a Nazi death warrant at the height of the Third Reich, amputated his own f**king gangrenous toes with a pair of pliers (and no anesthesia), and starred in a goddamned Oscar-winning movie – which was based on a book that he wrote. And this guy was so over-the-top awesome that he played the f**king villain in a movie that was loosely based around his own autobiography. He was also the fifth person to win the jackpot in the TV game show The $64,000 Question, published thirty books, founded two Adventurer’s Clubs, and his biography is called The Vagrant Viking.

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I googled him. It says he escaped death from an avalanche in 1926 by fashioning a shiv out of his own feces and amputating his own foot. I can't even!

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It's all subjective I guess, I'd say my grandfather - he's my personal badass.

Joined the army at 16 in 1942 and fought in North Africa, Normandy at Sword beach and through Germany before being wounded by mortar fragments. He rejoined the army in 1946 to help as what was essentially aid work as Britain was f**ked financially and we had some really bad winters. Worked his way up to Sergeant and was then sent to Malaya with the Gurkha Rifles, the Malaya conflict was pretty much Britain's Vietnam war and he spent a while fighting there. After his time in Malaya he was a part of the Solomon Island Protectorate, which mainly involved clearing the islands from refuse from WW2 - landing crafts, mines, bodies, ordnance etc

He was a part of the Royal Engineers during Op Banner (Northern Ireland) and spent the rest of his career in ordnance disposal, training roles etc.

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The only thing I know about my grandfathers is that they were both in Burma (as it was named then) they are both dead now, one 30 years ago the other 40 years ago. Neither of them spoke of their time at war nor did they write anything down.

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Admiral Yi Sun-sin.

He stopped Japan from conquering Korea in the Imjim war. Without any training or experience at commanding a naval force, he completely destroyed the Japanese navy cutting of reinforcements and supply. Not only did he never lose a battle, he never lost a ship, he destroyed at least 450, half of the Japanese navy at the time. Oh and he was always outnumbered, in one battle 133 warships and 260 other vessels to his 13. He sunk 30 ship, killed half of the Japanese officials and soldiers. Yi lost 2 men.

After one battle he began giving a debriefing to his men, during witch he took of his armour, took out a dagger and removed a musket ball from his shoulder, without stopping the debriefing. He'd be shot in the battle and hadn't told anyone. In another battle his ship was close by to the Japanese flag ship, so he took out his bow and arrow, and shot the Japanese admiral and his second and third in command dead.

Oh he was also just about the only guy in the Korean military who was not corrupt, something that nearly got him killed, twice.

He was killed in the final battle of the war. As the Japanese were retreating Yi began betting the war drum himself when he was shot in the chest. His last words were to his son and nephew was "we are about to win this was, keep betting the drum. Let no man know of my death."

Today both North and South Korea have medals of honour named after Yi.

He also has one of the best honou titles ever 'the Lord of Loyalty and warfare'.

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They made a movie about him called The Admiral starring Choi Min Sik. Great movie.

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Galvarino.

A member of the Mapuche natives of Chile in South America around 1550 AD. If you kill the leader of a revolt, it might make him a martyr, so the conquistadores publicly cut off his hands, and kept him around as a warning to any others who would not bend to their will.

Galvarino went back and started another insurrection, with KNIVES attached to both his wrists. The conquistadors had horse-mounted cavalry and steel body armor, so the mapuches lost. Even so, he saw what the Spaniards were doing to his community, and he fought to the death against horrifying odds.

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Giles Corey. Rather than pleading guilty for witchcraft, he asked for “more weight” as they slowly killed him through pressing.

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Samuel Whittemore.

Whittemore was in his fields when he spotted an approaching British relief brigade under Earl Percy, sent to assist the retreat. Whittemore loaded his musket and ambushed the British Grenadiers of the 47th Regiment of Foot from behind a nearby stone wall, killing one soldier. He then drew his dueling pistols, killed a second grenadier and mortally wounded a third. By the time Whittemore had fired his third shot, a British detachment had reached his position; Whittemore drew his sword and attacked.[7] He was subsequently shot in the face, bayoneted numerous times, and left for dead in a pool of blood. He was found by colonial forces trying to load his musket to resume the fight. He was taken to Dr. Cotton Tufts of Medford, who perceived no hope for his survival. However, Whittemore recovered and lived another 18 years until dying of natural causes at the age of 96.

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OP, you forgot to delete the “[7]” when you copied and pasted this from Wikipedia.

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Gandhi - Rallied 800 million Indians to take on the most powerful empire on earth at the time - the British Empire - without an Army, Navy, or Air Force and freed a nation.

But if we're going with the Rambo stuff, then I vote Benavidez - Master Sergeant (then Staff Sergeant) Roy P. BENAVIDEZ United States Army, distinguished himself by a series of daring and extremely valorous actions on 2 May 1968 while assigned to Detachment B56, 5th Special Forces Group (Airborne), 1st Special Forces, Republic of Vietnam.
On the morning of 2 May 1968, a 12-man Special Forces Reconnaissance Team was inserted by helicopters of the 240th Assault Helicopter Company in a dense jungle area west of Loc Ninh, Vietnam to gather intelligence information about confirmed large-scale enemy activity. This area was controlled and routinely patrolled by the North Vietnamese Army. After a short period of time on the ground, the team met heavy enemy resistance, and requested emergency extraction. Three helicopters attempted extraction, but were unable to land due to intense enemy small arms and anti-aircraft fire.
Sergeant BENAVIDEZ was at the Forward Operating Base in Loc Ninh monitoring the operation by radio when these helicopters, of the 240th Assault Helicopter Company, returned to off-load wounded crew members and to assess aircraft damage. Sergeant Benavidez voluntarily boarded a returning aircraft to assist in another extraction attempt. Realizing that all the team members were either dead or wounded and unable to move to the pickup zone, he directed the aircraft to a nearby clearing where he jumped from the hovering helicopter, and ran approximately 75 meters under withering small arms fire to the crippled team.
Prior to reaching the team's position he was wounded in his right leg, face, and head. Despite these painful injuries, he took charge, repositioning the team members and directing their fire to facilitate the landing of an extraction aircraft, and the loading of wounded and dead team members. He then threw smoke canisters to direct the aircraft to the team's position. Despite his severe wounds and under intense enemy fire, he carried and dragged half of the wounded team members to the awaiting aircraft. He then provided protective fire by running alongside the aircraft as it moved to pick up the remaining team members. As the enemy's fire intensified, he hurried to recover the body and classified documents on the dead team leader.
When he reached the leader's body, Sergeant BENAVIDEZ was severely wounded by small arms fire in the abdomen and grenade fragments in his back. At nearly the same moment, the aircraft pilot was mortally wounded, and his helicopter crashed. Although in extremely critical condition due to his multiple wounds, Sergeant Benavidez secured the classified documents and made his way back to the wreckage, where he aided the wounded out of the overturned aircraft, and gathered the stunned survivors into a defensive perimeter. Under increasing enemy automatic weapons and grenade fire, he moved around the perimeter distributing water and ammunition to his weary men, reinstilling in them a will to live and fight. Facing a buildup of enemy opposition with a beleaguered team, Sergeant BENAVIDEZ mustered his strength, began calling in tactical air strikes and directed the fire from supporting gunships to suppress the enemy's fire and so permit another extraction attempt.
He was wounded again in his thigh by small arms fire while administering first aid to a wounded team member just before another extraction helicopter was able to land. His indomitable spirit kept him going as he began to ferry his comrades to the craft. On his second trip with the wounded, he was clubbed from behind by an enemy soldier. In the ensuing hand-to-hand combat, he sustained additional wounds to his head and arms before killing his adversary.[5][note 1] He then continued under devastating fire to carry the wounded to the helicopter. Upon reaching the aircraft, he spotted and killed two enemy soldiers who were rushing the craft from an angle that prevented the aircraft door gunner from firing upon them. With little strength remaining, he made one last trip to the perimeter to ensure that all classified material had been collected or destroyed, and to bring in the remaining wounded.
Only then, in extremely serious condition from numerous wounds and loss of blood, did he allow himself to be pulled into the extraction aircraft, Sergeant BENAVIDEZS' gallant choice to join voluntarily his comrades who were in critical straits, to expose himself constantly to withering enemy fire, and his refusal to be stopped despite numerous severe wounds, saved the lives of at least eight men. His fearless personal leadership, tenacious devotion to duty, and extremely valorous actions in the face of overwhelming odds were in keeping with the highest traditions of the military service, and reflect the utmost credit on him and the United States Army.

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Douglas Bader

Lost both legs in an flying accident before the Second World War, still flew highly successfully for the RAF: 22 solo kills, 6 shared, 11 damaged enemy aircraft. Shot down over occupied France and captured in 1941 (arguably only because his left leg was damaged). Attempted escape so many times the Germans stuck him in Colditz and threatened to take his prosthetics away.

There's a film, which is very good in the slightly stiff manner of 1950's cinematography.

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His old house where he used to live after the war is near me.

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King Leonidas, he was reportedly in his 60s when he led the Spartans into the infamous battle of Thermopolaye

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Spartan women give birth to Spartan men. Not the exact wording but still badass.

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From my own country's history; Michiel de Ruyter.

This is a man that sailed the Dutch fleet up to the English coast, into the very heart of the Royal Navy, blasted the absolute f**k out of the English defenses, and then for good measure hooked up the flagship of the Royal Navy, the HMS Royal Charles, named after the goddamn King of England, and towed it back to Holland as a war prize.

And this was between several instances of kicking the ever-loving s**t out of whomever dared fall foul of Holland. Dude was sent halfway across the globe to regulate on behalf of the Dutch and dude motherf**king regulated pretty much everywhere he went. There is a statue of De Ruyter in bloody Hungary because of how epically his awesomeness was during the brief time he spent in the region.

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Dan Daly, he is a legend in the Marine Corp. He is one of 19 people to get awarded 2 Medal of Honors and he was supposed to get a third. He is also the person responsible for the famous quote "Come on you sons of b**ches, you wanna live forever!" I know of plenty of other people but this man is pretty up there in badassery.

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Theodora, wife of Justinian, Empress of the Byzantine empire. Started as the daughter of a bear trainer, worked as an "actress" who "danced"(stripped) while taming bears, ended as the queen bee of one of the strongest empires in history.

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She was a thoroughly toxic person. She so hated the idea that she would be forced to reincarnate as a common person and have to face the consequences of her actions which was mainstream Christian teaching at the time, as taught by Christ, that she politicked and plotted to get the teaching of reincarnation anathematised and made a heresy and thus cut out of the dogma, then called in as many Bibles as she could and had them rewritten. Anyone who taught the original belief was in dire trouble after that eg Origen.

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Either the Viking Berserker who's currently in Valhalla or the Japanese man who dove into raging waters of a tsunami to save his wife, mother, and many others.

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Jesus Christ. I mean, the guy convinced everyone of a guy in the sky being his dad.

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Feeling cross? Jesus did. (Think this is a bad joke? I saw this in the front window of a church hall.)

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Julius Caesar is definitely up there. Just the sheer amount of victories he managed to pull from defeat are incredible. The battle of Alesia alone where he built a wall around a besieged town and then a wall around his army so one side of his army was fighting off an army they had been attacking previously, and the other side of his army was defending against another army, would be enough to make him an incredible general, not counting the dozens of other times he was either outnumbered, outflanked, betrayed, cut off from supplies, etc and still either managed to win a battle or persuade the enemies to join him.

This motherf**ker was even captured by pirates once and hunted them all down later on in life.

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Theodore Roosevelt and Rasputin immediately come to my mind.

Roosevelt finished a relatively long speech after having been shot in the chest. "Nothing can stop the bull-moose." Roosevelt liked to use big words and and mental images, but he did everything he could to live up to the ideals he imposed on the world and himself.

And Rasputin survived multiple attempts to take his life. Poison, being shot and lastly being thrown into a river after having been poisened and shot.

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Teddy Roosevelt. Got shot giving a campaign speech, and refused to get off the stage and get treatment until he was done. He lost the election unfortunately.

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Third mention. And while he's a distant cousin and I'm proud, I really wish people READ before putting in repeats. But that requires, you know... reading. Sigh.

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Joan of Arc was a teenage girl who had Angels come to her and tell her she had to help lead France's army against England. And she did just that. Then she was captured and burned at the stake. She later became a saint.

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Chesty Puller.

>We've been looking for the enemy for some time now. We've finally found him. We're surrounded. That simplifies things.

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Yi Sun-sin.

Failed his first military examination.

Retook it and then became the oldest junior officer in his province.

He made a name for himself but his superiors became jealous and had him imprisoned and tortured.

He got out, re-enlisted, and eventually outranked them.

Then became admiral.

Then again stripped of his rank.

Then reinstated just in time to win perhaps the greatest naval battle in history - the Battle of Myeongnyang with his own 13 ships against Hideyoshi's 300 ships.


Fought 23 naval battles. Won 23 naval battles. All with no prior experience.

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Vito Bertoldo

This guy is super unknown to the public but if you look him up, you’ll realize his name should be everywhere.

He was part of the a division that was left behind to slow the German advance from gaining on the retreating American Army at the town of Hatten in France. This was just after D-day and the American’s met heavy resistance from the Germans to the point where they needed to regroup. Bertoldo and the rest of his battalion were left behind to try and slow the Germans, which was basically a suicide mission because you were either going to be overrun, or taken prisoner.

Bertoldo and the squad ambushed the first group of germans that were sent to scout ahead, but in doing so the Germans took out their hidden weapons and everyone involved in the confrontation died except for Bertoldo.

Now picture this, Bertoldo is all alone in this little French town with 1 or 2 entire German divisions coming to take it back for Germany. The logical thing to do would be to haul your ass back to your main army and push forward later on, but this super human of a man stayed there on his own free will.

He then killed 40 German soldiers, blew up one tank over the course of 3 days without sleep and had a tank shoot right at him, destroying one of the buildings he was in and giving him a concussion.

After he ran out of ammunition that was left over, he made his way back to the main army, who by that time had regrouped and was pushing back to the town to reclaim it eventually push all the way to Germany.

There were also reports of German soldiers saying that the heaviest fighting they had ever faced during the war was at the town of Hatten, unknown to them, by the hands of one man.

Without Bertoldo, the Americans may not have been able to push through the German’s defences along the western front and the result of the war could have been very different.

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My distant ancestor, Kim Gyeong Son. He fought during the Mongol invasion of Korea.

When he heard the news of the invasion, he raced to the nearest endangered fort so quickly that only a dozen soldiers were able to follow him, he nicknamed them "dare-to-die soldiers". The Mongol were surrounding the fort so thickly, that he had to fight his way to the main gates, which were completely shut.

From that place, in front of the gates, he challenged the Mongols and fought so fiercely, that they feel back and paused, giving time for him and his men to rush into the fort, from where he directed its defenses. He gained a lot of reputation for holding the fort until the end, forcing most of the Mongols to be tied up there, and able to only make raids, never conquering any place.

He is also written down in the historical records for having put down a rebellion of over a thousand men. There were no soldiers available and so he rode down to meet the rebels, and basically without pausing he cut a bloody path to the two enemy leaders and cut them down as they were staring dumbfounded. He told the rest of the rebels to go home, and they did.

Later in his life, he was exiled and politically assassinated. When they threw his buddy by the side of the road, people from many miles around came to bow down to the ground before his corpse, and called him the savior of Korea.

I'm not a direct descendant, by the way. He had an older brother and a younger brother. The older brother was killed due to intrigue, but because of the outstanding accomplishments if the family line, the third son was kept alive and his descendants also contributed both militarily and scholastically. I'm from this line, but definitely a loooong way down the line.

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Julius Caesar, he took 23 stabs to kill him, he destroyed the Gauls, he destroyed Pompey, he slept with Cleopatra.

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Jacques Mesrine - He was a French criminal during the 90s. He robbed serval banks, and escaped three prisons. He once broke into a prison he escaped from days ago to start a mass breakout, because he was unhappy at his treatment in said prison

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Napoleon: from a literally-who to Emperor just on merit and intelligence. He conquered Europe on a defensive campaign believe it or not (The Coalitions formed were against him and when they eventually lost, Napoleon would just take the territories as compensations), and of his two offensive campaigns, he lost both.

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Leading to The First Rule of French Warfare: The French only win when not led by a Frenchman.

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I personally think its Rasputin, I mean the man has his d**k kept in a museum.

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D***s - a man's best friend.

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Piru Singh Shekhawat: During the Indo-Pakistani War of 1947:
>He rushed forward to deal with the enemy medium machine gun post, which was playing havoc with his troops. Enemy grenade splinters ripped open his clothes and wounded several parts of his body. But this did not deter him. He still continued the advance, shouting the battle cry, “Raja Ramchandra Ki Jai”. Rushing forward he bayoneted the crew of the enemy MMG, with his own sten gun, silenced the menacing gun and occupied the post. By this time all his companions lay behind either dead or wounded....

>Bleeding profusely he inched forward to attack the second enemy MMG post. At this juncture a grenade wounded him in the face. The blood dripping from his face almost blinded him. By now all the sten gun ammunition with him had been spent. He courageously crawled out of the occupied enemy trench and hurled grenades at the next enemy post. CHM Piru Singh then jumped into another trench and bayoneted two enemy soldiers to death. As CHM Piru Singh, emerged from the second trench to charge on the third enemy bunker, he was hit in head by a bullet and was seen dropping on the edge of the enemy trench. There was an explosion in the trench, which showed that the grenade had done its work. By then CHM Piru Singh’s wound had proved fatal.

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Léo major.

­­Major single-handedly captured 93 German soldiers during the Battle of the Scheldt in Zeeland in the southern Netherlands. During a reconnaissance, whilst alone, he spotted two German soldiers walking along a dike. As it was raining and cold, Major said to himself, "I am frozen and wet because of you so you will pay." He captured the first German and attempted to use him as bait so he could capture the other.

The second attempted to use his gun, but Major quickly killed him. He went on to capture their commanding officer and forced him to surrender. The German garrison surrendered themselves after three more were shot dead by Major. In a nearby village, SS troops who witnessed German soldiers being escorted by a Canadian soldier shot at their own soldiers, injuring a few and killing seven. Major disregarded the enemy fire and kept escorting his prisoners to the Canadian front line. Major then ordered a passing Canadian tank to fire on the SS troops.

He marched back to camp with nearly a hundred prisoners. Thus, he was chosen to receive a DCM. He declined the invitation to be decorated, however, because according to him General Montgomery (who was giving the award) was "incompetent" and in no position to be giving out medals.

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Andrew Jackson was ridiculously terrifying. For a time without modern medecine, he should be dead.

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He is dead, sweetie. But I know what you meant to say. Sometimes it seems that sheer meanness is the only thing that keeps some m***********s living way too long.

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Adolph Metzger. He was a bugler in the US Cavalry in the 1860s. He was killed in one of the worst massacres in US military history, known as the [Fetterman Fight](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fetterman_Fight) during a larger US-American Indian conflict known as Red Cloud's War. In this battle, all 81 men were killed, with 80 (or 79, depending on the source) horribly mutilated. One exception was Adolph Metzger, who instead was covered in buffalo hide, as a sign of respect. According to American Indians who were there, he fought bravely until the very end, and once out of ammunition, used his bugle to bludgeon Indians to death until he was finally overwhelmed and killed. More info (and a picture of the badly dented bugle) [here](https://regularcavalryincivilwar.wordpress.com/2015/09/07/bugler-adolph-metzger/)

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