The Exodus of Missolonghi – 200 years since the most heroic last stand of the Greek Revolution. After 1 year of siege, starvation and bombardment, the Greeks chose death over surrender, exiting the city en mass against the Ottoman–Egyptian forces. What is a famous last stand of your nation?
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SE_prof@reddit
You must coordinate with u/Starfalloss. You can't be making the same posts all the time!
LastHomeros@reddit
I wonder if he is a troll or an AI bot
SE_prof@reddit
I think troll. There is some indications in Greece of government-backed social media armies... He could be part of this or he could simply be ...voting for the right...
LastHomeros@reddit
I always thought Greeks are traditionally left-leaning. It’s time to overthrow this bussiness guy, don’t you say?
SE_prof@reddit
We voted Nazis in the parliament 15 years ago.... As the third most voted party...
LastHomeros@reddit
That's ironic, considering how Greece was literally occupied by the Nazis
Lonely-Sunbed-2508@reddit
Funny how we talk about last stands in our countries and they probably were against each other
PrinzEugenius@reddit
Either the siege of Sziget in 1566, when our Croatian Ban Nikola Šubić Zrinski did one last sortie against the Ottoman invaders, or siege of Vukovar in 1991, when the town was surrounded by the Yugoslav peoples army and chetnik militia groups, leading to heroic last stand and execution of many of the towns civilians and defenders. Defenders of Vukovar managed to hold back Yugoslav forces long enough to enable most of YPA barracks in Croatia to be conquered and their weapons and materiel to be obtained for further defence of the country.
CataphractBunny@reddit
Two more candidates:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siege_of_Klis
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siege_of_Gvozdansko
Shqiptar89@reddit
True heroes in Vukovar
PrinzEugenius@reddit
Braća 🇭🇷🤝🇦🇱
-Passenger-@reddit
Siege of Szigetvar is what also came to my mind
2500 man stoped Suleiman the Magnificent's entire Army and when they went out on a suicide mission Šubić Zrinski was killed and beheaded. Suleiman died there too, not in battle though.
Its no wonder that 3 modern nations remember this as a highest heroic act.
Majorman_86@reddit
Batak Massacre during the April uprising in Bulgaria in 1876. The uprising was a disaster. Thousands of revolutionaries took shelter in the church, but the Ottomans sent irregulars to slaughter them. In the end, whoever had bullets remaining chose to kill their own wives and daughters to save them from potential rape. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Batak_massacre
Also the Siege of Tarnovo in 1393, vs the Ottomans. Tsar Ivan Shishamn was a huge chicken, he shat his pants when he heard the Turks were coming and abandoned his capital. So, Patriarch Euthymius, aged 68 at the time, with his massive cojones lead the defense. He lost the city, but the Ottomans spared him out of respect, he wasn't harmed and he was exiled in a monastery instead.
AntiKouk@reddit
Jesus. Horrific. That eye witness account from the daughter in law of the mayor about his torture..
Additional-Penalty97@reddit
Gallipoli Campaign
Additional-Penalty97@reddit
Also there is a legend of this guy, after the his gun battery s carriage broke mounting the 220kg round himself and his ammo sinking the British battleship HMS Ocean (the photo is a later imitation of the event by him to put on the magazines)
GoldenTheTurk@reddit
Defense of Medina in WW1, Fahrettin Pasha defended the city for 2 years during the war and 3 month after the surrender of Ottoman Empire
khmelnitsk@reddit
Dude was not planning to stop at all even after collapse of Ottoman Empire, he was arrested by his own people when they were about to die out of hunger.
GoldenTheTurk@reddit
"If they cant find bread they should eat crickets"
-Fahrettin Pasha while eating his 5th meal of that day (cricket stew with crickets as side dish)
Ujemegaz@reddit
Well, Ottomans did not spread because they were good conversationalists.
GoldenTheTurk@reddit
What does this have to do with the topic?
Ujemegaz@reddit
28th November 1443. Not a glorious event. Just Skanderbeg taking over the main castle with a forged stamp, and holding a speech about freedom after raising the flag we have today. What happened next is just history.
freddo_expresso@reddit (OP)
All I know is the Battle of Albulena, isn't it more important?
Ujemegaz@reddit
Plenty of battles and sieges happened after that point. Until 1478 in the siege of Shkodra, when Albanians finally lost the war altogether and everyone got slaughtered. Ottomans were pissed off because they came here every year. 300k-500k Albanians left toward Italy and fewer toward Croatia, Romania all the way to Ukraine. Not to count in the ones that were sent as slaves to Istanbul or simple settled in more peaceful parts of the new empire. War totally consumed our nation and we became the smallest population in the Balkans. 16th century is like a blank page in the history of our country. No records, no events, as if it was deserted. Most of major cities in central Albania developed after 17th century . If you ask me, had we become a vassal state of the Ottomans since the start, it would be better for us. Once Skanderbeg started the struggle, our fate was sealed. It might sound brave to fight against a rising empire, but i think it was foolish.
hubbabubbameqershi@reddit
The battle of Albulena is one of the biggest battles Gjergj (George) Kastrioti won, and won it with 10 times less men on kinda open field. The terrain was narrow and helped the small army with numerical superiority from the turks. It was a bloodbath, they massacred the turks and the news about it reached all the parts of the western world. Turks were basically a ruthless war machine and no one thought something like this was possible. The folk songs say they left the soldiers to feed the crows, and the field of Albulena became an open grave. This happened just 4 years after Mehmet invaded Constantinople, and made him sign a peace pact for a few years that George used to fight for Ferdinand in Italy. Imagine a united Balkans under him to form a resistance, we would have had a different story nowadays, but the whole Eastern empire was very much divided, corrupted and shattered long before Turkish invasion for something like this to happen.
LegioXI89@reddit
Stevan Sindjelić and his sacrifice against ottomans during first Serbian uprising
From wiki :
He is remembered for his actions during the Battle of Čegar in 1809, in which he and the Resava Brigade found themselves surrounded by the Ottomans. Encircled and without much chance of survival, Sinđelić ignited the gunpowder kegs in the powder cave, creating an enormous explosion that killed him, along with all of the Serbian and Ottoman soldiers in his trench.
riquelm@reddit
I think for Serbia last stand in WWI in Belgrade is even more impressive, that speech gives me shivers
LegioXI89@reddit
“Soldiers, exactly at three o’clock the enemy is to be crushed by your fierce charge, destroyed by your grenades and bayonets.
The honour of Belgrade, our capital, must not be stained.
Soldiers! Heroes! The supreme command has erased our regiment from it’s records.
Our regiment has been sacrificed for the honour of Belgrade and the fatherland.
Therefore, you no longer need to worry about your lives: they no longer exist.
So, forward to glory! For the king and the fatherland!
Long live the King! Long live Belgrade!”
BDP-SCP@reddit
In Istria si the siege of Nezactium in 178. B.C. The Romans cut the water supply, to the capital of the Histri. Warriors killed the women and children, then killed themselfs.
Prod_Meteor@reddit
Why not any photos of it?
Tank_Nerd141@reddit
The first photograph was taken in 1826 or 1827 in France...
Comfortable_Cress194@reddit
Shipka battle
Max_ach@reddit
I guess it's the Ilinden uprising in Macedonia, 1903. Both my male grandparents fought in and gained like 10 days of a republic 😃 funfact is that one of them fought later together on the same sides with the greeks in Greece as well 😁